A whack-a-mole with a twist — only cuff the right suspect.
A wanted face is shown at the top. Doors flip open around the board revealing suspects, and you tap only the ones that match the wanted poster. Grab the wrong face and you get a time penalty.
Tap the matching suspect the moment a door reveals it. Ignore — do not tap — any face that isn't the wanted one.
You need to cuff 3 correct suspects, and you're scored on fastest total time. Every wrong tap adds a penalty (around +0.6s), so accuracy directly protects your time. Fastest clean run wins.
When you play Peek-a-Crook between rounds or in the Arcade, the computer players compete at the difficulty set for your match — from Rookie up to Ace. Easier bots make loose, mistimed plays you can beat with basic execution, while the hardest bots play tight and consistent, so you'll need clean reaction to out-score them. In a live game it's the humans who usually decide the round, so a calm, practiced run is your edge.
Peek-a-Crook is one of the quick minigames that fires between rounds of a RentRivals match — the whole table plays the same game at once, and the winner banks a $20 in-game bonus that can fund the next big purchase. You can also practice Peek-a-Crook any time, solo against three CPUs, in the Minigame Arcade from the main menu — no board, no room, no stakes.
You take a time penalty (about +0.6 seconds), so a couple of mistakes can drop you from first to last. Accuracy is as important as speed.
Three correct suspects. The player who cuffs all three in the fastest total time — penalties included — wins the round.
Enjoyed Peek-a-Crook? Here are three more RentRivals minigames to check out: