As he moves through the building a player will be able to deduce where he is at and try to arrest him. Different sounds are made to indicate where or what the criminal is doing.
During each player’s turn they are allowed to press ‘Clue’ on the scanner. Tracking the thief involves using the crime scanner. It is then up to the players to track him down. In each building there are at least 4 red crime spaces and so the criminal could be at any one of them. The scanner displays the building number (on the game board) for where the crime happened.
The game starts with pressing the electronic crime scanner which sounds off the alarm of a crime being committed. But they weren’t back then! The computerized crime scanner sounded clues and the players, acting as detectives, were on a race to catch the thief before he struck again.Įven now Stop Thief is an awesome game to play. The game of cops and robbers was electronic! Of course these days’, electronic games are everywhere. Stop Thief by Parker Brothers was an extraordinary board game to play in 1979 when it was first published.
