You solved the case. The wine is gone, the fake mustaches are somewhere under the couch, and your kitchen table is covered in name tags and evidence cards nobody has bothered to clean up yet. Now the box sits on your shelf, and you are left wondering what exactly you...
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What to Do When Two Players Won’t Stop Arguing In Character
Two of your guests are three rounds into the game and they are not acting anymore. The wine glasses are down. The character names have disappeared and it is just Dave and Karen, both a little too loud, both a little too invested in proving the other one is lying....
Murder Mystery for Long-Distance Friends Visiting for a Weekend
You get one weekend. Maybe two, if you are lucky and someone's flight got delayed on the front end. Your college roommate lives in Denver now, your old coworker moved to Austin three years ago, and getting the whole crew in one city at the same time took a group chat...
Murder Mystery Games vs. Cocktail Party: Can You Do Both?
Someone in your friend group is going to ask this eventually. You want the moody, dressed up, cocktail-in-hand energy of a proper party, but you also love the idea of everyone accusing each other of murder by 9pm. The good news is you are not choosing between two...
The Murder Mystery for a Sunday Afternoon When Absolutely Nothing Else Is Planned
Sunday afternoons have a strange gravity to them. Nothing is on the calendar, everyone is still in sweatpants from the morning, and by 3pm the group text starts filling up with some version of "does anyone want to do something." Nobody wants to plan a whole event....
Why Some Guests Become Completely Different People at Mystery Nights
The Accountant Who Became a Heist Mastermind in Under an Hour We have watched a lot of murder mystery parties unfold from behind the scenes, and one thing keeps happening that never stops being funny. A guest who spends their entire week color coding spreadsheets...
Murder Mystery Games for College Students Who Are Broke But Still Want a Good Night
College budgets are a joke and everyone knows it. Rent eats most of the paycheck, ramen is somehow both a meme and an actual food group, and the idea of dropping 50 bucks a head on a night out feels borderline insane when tuition is due next week. So when a group chat...
Murder Mystery Games for Neighbors You Barely Know (In the Best Way)
You know the neighbors two doors down by their car, not their name. You wave at the couple across the street every morning and could not tell a single stranger what either of them does for a living. Most of us live like this now, polite and completely disconnected,...
Trivia Night vs. Murder Mystery Games: Which One Actually Wins Your Group Over
My family went to trivia night this past Friday. We tied for first, in case anyone was wondering, and there was a brief and slightly unhinged argument at our table over what coins said before "In God We Trust." We had no idea. Hence, the tie, and no outright win. Oh...
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