by JK Stewart | Sep 18, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
The Alibi Sounds Different Once It Leaves Your Mouth You spend two minutes reading your character’s alibi silently on the card. It seems fine, a little thin maybe, something about being in the garden shed looking for a wrench nobody actually needed. Then someone...
by JK Stewart | Sep 17, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Your Group Already Has These Four People Hand a mystery kit to any group of six or eight friends and within the first ten minutes you can already tell who is going to do what for the rest of the night. Someone is going to read every clue twice because they do not...
by JK Stewart | Sep 14, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Getting Fooled Feels Good, and Your Brain Knows It Somewhere around the second clue reveal, you become completely convinced the killer is the quiet accountant with the shifty alibi. You feel it in your bones. Then the actual reveal happens and it turns out to be the...
by JK Stewart | Sep 11, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
The Kit That Falls Apart by Part Two You have been there, or you will be. Twenty minutes into a murder mystery, someone reads their clue card out loud and the whole table goes quiet, not because the tension is building but because the clue directly contradicts...
by JK Stewart | Sep 9, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
Another Candle Isn’t Going to Cut It Every year it is the same scramble. Mother’s Day or Father’s Day shows up on the calendar again, and you are standing in a store aisle staring at a candle that smells vaguely like “linen” or a tie that...
by JK Stewart | Sep 8, 2026 | Fun & Games, Party Planning & Hosting Tips
The Nine O’Clock Wall Every Cabin Trip Hits Every cabin weekend hits the same wall around nine o’clock on Saturday night. The dishes are done, the deck is too cold, someone already tried to start a board game that fell apart because two people didn’t...
