The other players each control at least one detective, all of which are always present on the board. X': a criminal whose location is only revealed periodically throughout gameplay.
It received the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 1983 -the same year that it was published. The game is published by Ravensburger in most of Europe and Canada and by Milton Bradley in the United States. Scotland Yard is an asymmetric board game, during which the detective players cooperatively solve a variant of the pursuit–evasion problem. It is named after Scotland Yard which is the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service in real-life. Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players controlling different detectives cooperate to track down a player controlling a criminal as they move around a board representing the streets of London.