• The book cover of 'Estate of PLAY' by Ethan Yun, featuring a bright yellow background with black silhouettes of people falling and a dark blue header. The book is centered on a white background with a rustic, distressed brown border.
  • A set of printed game board components and instruction sheets laid out on a white background with a distressed brown border. The set includes a yellow and black game board, an open instruction booklet showing rules, a player tracker card, a challenge card, and a laurel wreath emblem sheet.
  • A printed informational poster or booklet page with a distressed brown border, featuring the heading 'Playing the Game,' body text, and a yellow-and-black illustrated scene near the bottom.
  • A printed informational sheet or booklet page with text blocks, small cards, and a yellow reference panel, surrounded by a decorative brown border. The page appears to explain game or puzzle rules rather than show a standalone retail product in a standard product photo.
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Glyphtide Games

Estate of Play

Estate of Play

€15,95 EUR
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The will has been read, and it is nothing if not complicated. As the probate attorney of a recently deceased eccentric, you are to host the elaborate games and challenges their testament demands, until one heir emerges as the principal beneficiary. There is just one complication: the deceased suspected that one of the heirs might be a murderer.

Estate of Play is a solo mystery journaling game by Ethan Yen, built on the Hints and Hijinx system by Pandion Games. Guided by prompts, playing cards and a handful of dice, you run each challenge, note what the heirs let slip, and piece the clues together in your meticulous case notes until you can point at the culprit.

The tone sits closer to Knives Out than to a grim procedural: playful, satirical and just a little melodramatic. A session takes one to two hours, and you need no experience with journaling games to enjoy it, which makes this a fine first step into solo play as well as a treat for seasoned journalers.

What's inside

  • Full-colour digest zine (16 pages) with all rules and prompts

Bring your own deck of playing cards, a set of polyhedral dice and something to write with.

Designed and written by Ethan Yen, with layout and graphic design by Endhy Pino. Published by Glyphtide Games.

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