by JK Stewart | Jun 24, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
The Question Nobody Asks Until They’re About to Buy You found a murder mystery game you like. The theme looks fun, the reviews are good, and you are already mentally casting your friends in character roles. Then you count heads and the doubt creeps in. Is eight...
by JK Stewart | Jun 23, 2026 | Party Planning & Hosting Tips
The Myth of the Expensive Mystery Night Somewhere along the way, murder mystery parties got a reputation for being complicated and pricey to pull off. People imagine elaborate table settings, custom props ordered off Etsy, a cheese board that cost forty dollars, and a...
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...
