Thirty years ago, a large meteor crashed into a field outside Hagerstown Maryland, bringing the whole world to a standstill and halting the Civil War in its tracks. The United States had banded together, setting aside their differences, simply to survive the aftermath of this catastrophic event. It was soon discovered that the meteor was a curious metallic alloy, referred to as “Element X”, which had an unexpected characteristic. It caused water to burst into steam The Heist is a strategic game of deduction and luck. Your goal is to steal pieces of the worlds most valuable resource known as 'Element X'. A seventeen card deck contains many characters eager to get their hands on Element X. On a turn, you draw one card, and play one card using that characters action, trying to deduce who's who and eliminate them from the game and be the first to steal 7 pieces of Element X. —description from the designer