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Year Published
1984
# of Players:
2 − 7
User Suggested # of Players
(Not best with any number)
Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7 players
(16 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
6 and up
(4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(5 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Heimlich & Co.
Alternate Names
CIA
Detective & Co
Safe & Partners
Top Secret
Top Secret Spies
Under Cover
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

While this game appears to be very simple, that isn't necessarily the case. The board is a oval movement track, with points allocated to the various spaces. Seven different colored 'spies' are placed on the board. When it's a player's turn, he rolls a die and then moves any combination of characters forward that number of spaces. The newly moved spies then score points based on the their new location. However, the trick here is that each player's color isn't known until the end of the game, so players are encouraged to deduce which color belongs to whom. In addition, there are some advanced rules which allow players to score more points at the end of the game for correctly guessing everyone's identity. Heimlich is a German adjective meaning secretly and slyly. So Heimlich & Co translates as Clandestine and Company!

More Information Edit | History

It is said that this is the first game to use a victory point track going around the board (known among German gamers as a Kramerleiste). (See westpark-gamers.de interview.)

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3 Homemade cards for Heimlich & Co.
Homemade cards for Heimlich & Co., for those of us who don't have cards from the later printings. Based on artwork from the Rio Grande Games printing (with permission), traced in Illustrator. I used scans of the agents from a photo in the Gallery. Print on Avery business card stock for proper fitting. Page 4 should be printed on the back of each of Page 1, 2, and 3. Illustrator files available upon request.
2009-02-27
1 Heimlich suspect sheets in Greek
small suspect sheets in Greek for the "advanced" variation
2008-11-11
0 Heimlich & Co.doc
Heimlich & Co reglas en español / Heimlich & Co spanish rules
2006-06-22
1 Heimlich & Co - Quick reference (italiano).pdf
Quick reference in Italian
2006-01-18
1 Carte.doc
Italian Translation of cards
2004-06-08
6 TopSecretSpies(Heimlich_US).pdf
English Rulebook
2003-09-03
2 Heimlich Co. Half-pager.pdf
Half-Page Player Aid
2002-10-02
3 Under Cover.pdf
English rules in PDF for Under Cover / Heimlich & Co. / Detective & Co.
2001-03-13
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 884
Num Ratings: 1238
Average Rating: 6.36
Standard Deviation: 1.32
Num Views: 55076
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.6 moreinfo
Fans: 5
Personal Comments: 486
Users Owning: 1490
Users Wanting: 53
Users Trading: 98
Has Parts For Trade: 9
Want Parts In Trade: 8
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1681
Plays This Month: 24
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