Sir Chester Cobblepot

Sir Chester Cobblepot and Giochi Uniti are pleased to announce the second edition of Letters from Whitechapel™!

On sale since June 2013

Whitechapel District, London, 1888. The streets of this overcrowded, fetid slum are home to the most impoverished and unfortunate souls in London. Prostitutes ply their trade on almost every street corner. These women are called the wretched, and a more fitting name cannot be found. In a place where nothing could get worse, it has. A killer walks these streets, bringing the lives of the wretched to a terrible end. Jack the Ripper has arrived.

In Letters from Whitechapel™, two to six players play Jack the Ripper and five noted detectives pursuing him in Victorian London. Jack the Ripper must outmaneuver the detectives in the tangled streets of the Whitechapel District to escape after committing his horrible murders. Meanwhile, the detectives must use clever deduction and their superior numbers to hunt Jack the Ripper down before he can kill again or elude them forever. Will history’s most notorious serial killer get away again? Or, this time, will he be brought to justice?

Awards: 2011 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee
Available in: italian (Giochi Uniti), english (Fantasy Flight Games), dutch (999 Games), french (Edge), chinese (Plan Play)

New Components

Sir Chester Cobblepot has improved many components of Letters from Whitechapel™, based on the comments and reviews of several players from all over the world.

- Jack the Ripper screen: Its usability is improved. The map is bigger, and the chart of the Special Movement tokens is now shown on it, so players don’t have to look at the rulebook during the game. The new physical design allows the screen to stand up by itself and better protect the secret information of Jack from the other players.

- Wooden tokens: Through repeated use of the Women, Patrol, and Time of the Crime tokens, these components can become marked. Now they are made of wood to make it harder for them to become damaged and marked.

- Markers: Some of the plastic discs now are different colors to help them stand out more on the game board. The Clue markers are now yellow and the False Clue markers are blue.

- Letters: These are optional components, so they were transformed into paper sheets instead of cardboard tokens to reduce the production cost. On the back of those sheets are the Letters’ effects described in detail, so players don’t have to look at the rulebook during the game.

- Rulebook: The rules of the game are unchanged, but the official errata have been integrated into the rulebook. The format of the rulebook was changed to allow for thecreation of an upgrade kit for players who bought the first edition of the game but want to upgrade their copy with the new components. In this way all players can enjoy this version of the game without buying an additional copy of the game – a Cobblepot promise we want to stand by.

Letters from Whitechapel – Revised Edition

A board game by Gabriele Mari and Gianluca Santopietro
Illustrated by Gianluca Santopietro
Produced by Sir Chester Cobblepot
Published by Giochi Uniti
Distrubuted by Fantasy Flight Games, 999 Games, Edge and Plan Play

Contents of the Box
– The rulebook;
– 1 Game board representing the Whitechapel district in 1888;
– 5 Police sheets (1 each of blue, yellow, brown, red, and green);
– 4 Jack’s Letter sheets (Dear Boss, Saucy Jacky, From Hell, and Goulston Street);
– 1 Die-cut punchboard containing:
- 5 Head of the Investigation tiles (1 each of blue, yellow, brown,red, and green);
- 5 Special Movement tokens (3 Coach and 2 Alley);
– 7 Black wooden Police Patrol tokens (2 false tokens, and 1 each of blue, yellow, brown, red, and green);
– 8 White wooden Woman tokens, 5 marked with red and 3 unmarked;
– 1 Red wooden Time of the Crime token;
– 5 White wooden Wretched pawns;
– 5 Wooden Policeman pawns (1 each of blue, yellow, brown, red, andgreen);
– 2 Black wooden Jack pawns;
– 1 Jack the Ripper screen;
– 1 Pad of Jack the Ripper move track sheets;
– 3 Transparent blue plastic False Clue markers;
– 19 Transparent yellow plastic Clue markers;
– 5 Transparent red plastic Crime Scene markers.

External links
- Giochi Uniti’s announcement
- product sheet – Giochi Uniti
- minisite Fantasy Flight Games
- product sheet –  Fantasy Flight Games
- product sheet –  Edge Entertainment
- product sheet – 999 Games