Equip cards represent the gear and gadgets your detective has access to. There are three types of Equip cards, Weapons, Devices, and Getup. You can equip one card of each type.

Equip cards provide a large number of different benefits, but frequently improve your efforts at Investigating locations. Before you can use an Equip card's effects, you must equip it to your detective. Once in play, the card can be used.

Location cards represent the various seedy spots around New Orleans your detective must investigate to find clues.

When you arrive at a location, your detective must face an encounter before investigating the scene. Encounters can be simple obstacles like a barred door or locked safe, but they can also be something much, much worse.

Meddle cards allow you to interfere with the investigations of other detectives. whether by causing an investigation to become harder,  delaying an opponent at a location, or forcing them to reveal clues at an inopportune moment, Meddle cards generally serve to throw a wrench in your opponents' carefully laid plans.

In addition to your detective card, you also use the corresponding character token to mark your gumshoe's current location in New Orleans.

Each player chooses one of the detectives at the start of the game. Each gumshoe has their own special ability and brings something unique to the investigation.

Each location belongs to a different neighborhood, and each neighborhood can only have three locations attached at any one time. Once a location has given up a clue it is discarded, so you will need to travel around New Orleans to solve this mystery.

From ghouls and ghosts to the hardboiled harrowed undead and voodoo practitioners, New Orleans is home to a host of murderous menaces. If your detective is well prepared, and perhaps a little lucky, you can overcome the encounter and try to search the location for clues.

You can also use Meddle cards to counter your opponents' meddling, so you must weigh up what the best use is of these versatile cards.