The murder mystery genre of board games task players with finding clues to solve a mystery, perhaps best shown in the board game
Cluedo. The genre eventually spawned the related genre of hidden identity/social deduction games, where one or more of a minority of players in a group secretly collaborate to achieve a goal while hiding their identity, and a majority of players must ferret out to the identity of the traitors before that goal is achieved. This is perhaps best shown in the part game
Mafia or