Whitehall Mystery FAQ
52 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Preparing the Game
- Where must Jack place his four Discovery Locations during setup?
- With fewer than four players, how are the three investigators controlled?
- Can the green and brown investigators be used alongside the standard three investigators?
- If the yellow investigator is replaced by a reinforcement figure, can its dog ability still be used?
The Game Board
How to Play
1. Jack: Escape in the Night
2. Investigators: Hunting the Monster
- Can two investigators occupy the same space?
- Can an investigator moved by another investigator's ability still act later that turn?
- Does using an investigator's extra-movement ability stop it from searching or arresting that turn?
- Is an investigator's movement ability used in addition to its normal move, and in what order?
- Can one investigator use two of its abilities in the same turn?
- How often can an investigator use its special ability?
3. Investigators: Clues and Suspicion
- If an investigator searches a spot Jack already visited this round, is a second clue marker placed?
- What does Jack answer when an investigator searches a circle he has not visited this round?
- Is Jack caught if an investigator searches the circle he is standing on?
- If one investigator finds a clue, do the other investigators' turns end too?
- Can one investigator find a clue and another make an arrest in the same phase?
- Can an investigator search or arrest a circle when another figure stands between them and it?
- Is the Smoker's Nose ability once per game or every turn?
Special Movements
- With the Murderer at Large option, does a face-down Coach still move Jack two spaces on the track?
- Can a Coach move end on a blue numbered circle?
- Can Jack start a Coach move from a blue numbered circle?
- Can a Coach move go to the same circle twice, or end back on the circle Jack started from?
- Does a Coach use two of Jack's movement spaces, and does an Alley or Boat use only one?
- Can Jack use a Coach on his 15th move?
- Can Jack use a Coach or Alley to move directly onto his next Discovery Location?
- Can Jack pass over a Discovery Location with a Coach or Alley and come back to it later to reveal it?
- Can Jack play a Special Movement tile as a bluff and not actually make the move?
- Can Jack use Special Movement tiles on consecutive turns?
- How many Special Movement tiles does Jack get in a game?
- What defines a block of houses for an alley move?
- Can a blue numbered circle sit on the dotted boundary of a block of houses for an alley move?
- Can Jack use an alley move across an oddly shaped block of houses?
- Can an alley move go to any other circle in the same block, even one Jack could not walk to?
- Can Jack use an Alley move from a blue numbered circle?
- Can an alley or boat move pass over investigators standing between Jack's start and destination?
- Do the blue dotted lines on the river limit where a boat move can go?
- Can Jack use a Boat to move between any two blue numbered circles in the same body of water?
- Can the blue investigator's boat ability move him between any two crossings on the same body of water?
- Must a move between blue circles 154 and 174 be made by boat?