Watch “Rear Window - How To Play,” a how-to-play guide for Rear Window from Watch It Played on BoardGameVideo.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:42 - The Setup
04:20 - Game Play Overview
04:41 - Understanding The Solution Board
05:08 - The Director and Watcher's Roles
06:09 - The Day Phases
06:15 - The Window Phase
07:31 - Communication Rules
07:54 - Playing Cards Face Down
08:06 - Playing Cut Tokens
08:37 - The Deduction Phase
09:35 - The Scoring Phase
10:34 - Starting A New Day
11:00 - Using Watcher Placards
11:25 - L.B. Jeffries
11:43 - Stella McGaffery
12:09 - Det. Lt. Tom Doyle
12:36 - Lisa Freemont
12:52 - Ending The Game: No Murder
13:19 - When A Murder Tile Is In The Game
14:46 - Previous Rules That Change During A Murder
15:36 - Conclusion
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Mainly reviews. Rear Window is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 20 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, and 8 unboxings.
3 - 5 players
40 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Rear Window, from BoardGameGeek:
Experience Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece film Rear Window in a game of deduction and suspense. Carefully observe strange clues and ominous patterns in the things going on in the apartments across the way. There are parties, knives, a saw, bickering, laughing, music...and a mysterious trunk. Do you detect a murder? Or is the secret, private world of the neighbors planting frightening ideas in your mind?
In Rear Window, one player takes the role of director Alfred Hitchcock - the "Master of Suspense" - and communicates via building windows clues and signs for the other players without ever uttering a word, ideally giving them enough to go on that they can figure out who the murderer is - or whether a murder even took place.
If a murderer is out there, you need to nail down all eight attributes of that person by the end of four rounds without them catching on to what you see and know.
