The object of the game is to match your wits with the authors (Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson, winners of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe award for excellence in fact-crime writing) of six case histories based on actual crimes. Based on an early TV show, as the game says, "Direct from television to you". An early example of marketing a TV show to a home audience using a game. Uses an actual METAL "scales of justice" to evaluate and track a case's progress.