5 Best Deduction Board Games - Can You Figure It Out? 

My favorite of the ones you mentioned is Search for Planet X. An older one I have, that is not very heavy but has great table presence and a lot of fun is Tobago.

My personal favourite is Shipwreck Arcana, but Cryptid and Search For Planet X are close behind.

Solo deduction: Black Sonata is so good. I wish it was easier to find.

My favorite is Alchemists w/ King's Golem. It's a worker placement deduction game with plenty of tension and a solid puzzle. Search for Planet is great but less game-y. Turing machine has no game and is all puzzle but also enjoyable.

Love Turing Machine. Surprised Hooky wasn't mentioned. You should give it a try if you haven't.

A much older game, but very fun for it's time is Scotland Yard. Hidden movement, one v. many. We still have out copy from the '80's.

Awkward Guests and Scandal Oh. You can perfectly play alone using the app.

I need to play some deduction games with Emily, apparently. I can't get anyone in my game group to play those kinds of games with me, or if they do, it's usually only one time. I finally managed to get some people to play Tiwanaku (which a couple people in the comments mentioned, and which is an amazing deduction game that I'm surprised wasn't on the list), but it just "wasn't [their] type of game." Also, I love that Planet X has the different difficulty levels, but I hate telling someone, "you can start with 10 clues, and I'll start with none," because then I feel like they might be insulted or think I'm saying that they're not as smart as me or something, when really it's just that I do so many of those types of logic and deduction puzzles, that my brain is used to working that way.

I also love Letter Jam and Witness as deduction games.

I ended up backing Logic & Lore on KS a little while ago which is a small two player deduction game I'm excited for.

I really need to get Turing Machine.

Tiwanaku! For an oldie, Sleuth. I want to say the Fugitive. It’s almost like mastermind where the code maker gets to keep making the code while you play!

Almost Innocent is great, and it scales up in difficulty Lots of fun!

Favorite deduction games for me are Alchemists, Cryptic, Break the Code, Awkward Guests and Search for Planet X. Other great games that combines deduction and hidden movement are Mind MGMT and Black Sonata.

If you like Mastermind you need to try Rising 5. It’s a coop game that uses an app but is basically mastermind with other gamer elements of fighting monsters and such.

I love turing machine too but I wish there was more interaction it’s more a solo game

Archeologic, Atlantis and Almost innocent were all avg for me.

I like break the code much better than break the cube. Similar game but figuring out numbers instead of shapes.

Sherlock13 I like.

Can't believe you've not mentioned Tiwanaku by Sit Down! Games - it's amazing

Cryptid isso good!💙💙💙💙

No Alchemists?! 😱😱😱