Paranormal Detectives is a deduction party game. One player takes the role of a Ghost. All other players work as Paranormal Detectives and need to discover how the victim died. Using paranormal abilities they will communicate with the Ghost, asking open questions about the details of the crime. The Ghost answers in a variety of ghostly ways - by arranging a hangman's knot, playing chosen tarot cards, creating a word puzzle on a talking board, drawing by holding the hand of a detective and many more!
Detectives may try, twice during the game, to guess what has actually happened to the victim stating who was the killer, where did it happen, what was the motive, how was it done and what was the murder weapon. Then the Ghost writes down secretly on this Detective's investigation sheet how many of their answers are correct.
The game can end in 2 ways:
- if a Detective gives all correct answers. In this case, they win, together with the Ghost player.
- if all Detectives run out of interaction cards. In this case, If no one has guessed everything correctly then, whoever guessed correctly the most information is the sole winner of the game!