by JK Stewart | Jun 19, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Picking a murder mystery theme feels like it should be the easy part. You scroll a few options, something with a fun title catches your eye, and you click buy. Then game night arrives and half your guests are bored, the other half are confused about why a 1920s...
by JK Stewart | Jun 17, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Most of them haven’t. That’s the honest reality of hosting one of these nights, and it’s worth saying out loud so you stop treating it like a problem to be solved and start treating it like the entirely normal situation it is. When we’ve run...
by JK Stewart | Jun 16, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Yes. Tell them. This is the answer, and the reasoning behind it is worth understanding before you send out a single invitation. Hosting a murder mystery is already a small act of bravery. You’re asking a group of people — some of whom may never have played one —...
by JK Stewart | Jun 11, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Some murder mystery nights become the kind of thing a friend group references for years. Inside jokes form. Someone brings up the moment the accountant dramatically accused the wrong person at the wrong time, and the whole table erupts even six months later. The host...
by JK Stewart | Jun 10, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
You’ve picked the game, you’ve sorted the characters, you’re actually excited about this — and then someone texts back “oh, I don’t know, I’m not really a creative person” and suddenly you’re doing emotional customer...
by JK Stewart | Jun 9, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Most people who buy a murder mystery game get exactly what they paid for: a game. Papers, characters, clues, a reveal at the end. And it’s fine. People enjoy it. But fine is not the same as memorable, and there’s a gap between running a mystery and hosting...
