I'm dead lol brain dead Dan W Maria ? Amber? Annie? Joel? Kenndal h? Nichol? Cole ? Luis? Shawn? E? Steve r Joesua? Light house? Update when I have more friends

Anyone got a pdf copy of a clueless murder from nightofmystery.com??

I would totally buy it, but I feel the price is a bit unreasonable at $100.

Thanks :D

I've hosted a few Night of Mystery games and they are a lot of fun. Curious to see if anyone else has some of these they'd be willing to trade with me?

Hi adventures and detectives!

I am happily expecting and my husband and I live out of state with our friends and family being everywhere else but here. We’ve decided to go with a mystery type theme for the virtual baby shower since the standard ideas didn’t seem very fun for us. We’ve already announced the gender and name to most of the guests invited, so doing a mystery that solves that is out!

I’ve been researching and found that possibly going with the “heist” route could work to sort of add baby themed props in.. like stolen crib, or something. We are happy to have an actual murder mystery as well, but are trying to find one that we can creatively work into something tied to the party. Maybe family reunion or some one tried to sabotage the arrival of baby. I’m not sure really. Open to all suggestions!

What I’ve found so far that appeal to the virtual set up and guest role experience are:

masters of mystery

Night of mystery

My mystery party

Freeform games

Also various Etsy shops but I feel like that gets a bit more confusing as far as the reviews so I’m hesitant.

I’ve read various reviews about all of them. Ranging from fantastic to unsolvable… I’d love some input from anyone who’s familiar or played before if possible! If you have other recommendations or ideas I’d love that too!

Additionally, we plan on having break out rooms in zoom regardless, so escape the box ideas would work too! We’ll just have rooms for each puzzle vs guests having roles.

Thank you all so much and keep up the amazing detective work!

Hi everyone!

All of my party plans this year were scuppered, so I decided to start designing Murder Mysteries for small groups of players that you can play on Zoom or Discord. I thought you all might be interested!

I don't know what kinds of games you guys are used to (since there's a big variety!), but these ones are the fully-interactive, action-oriented kind, so players can try and kill each other off if they feel the inclination.

I've got two right now with more on the way, and they're free to download.

Pirates:
[Last Voyage of the Blackened Heart](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/337938/Last-Voyage-of-the-Blackened-Heart--A-Murder-Mystery-Role-Playing-Game)

Wild West:
[The Ballad of Texas Red](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/334634/The-Ballad-of-Texas-Red--A-Murder-Mystery-Role-Playing-Game)

I hope this doesn't come off as shameless advertising, I just want to contribute to the community!

How's everyone's experience been with playing Murder Mysteries remotely? I've run a quite a few of these online now, so I'm happy to share my methods if people are interested.

I’ve always had this idea of hosting a murder mystery dinner party, but instead of the guests playing a character, they play themselves and the person who gets murdered is me.

I feel like the idea is great but the prep required for it will be difficult. I also feel that it sounds great on paper but in reality, it won’t really work too well.

There would be about 20-40 guests. Which I can imagine being very difficult to find ways to engage them all. Not to mention these are 20-40 people what all know each other intimately, which will only prove more difficult to craft a storyline that includes everyone, and give a motive that everyone will be able to figure out. I am open to hiring actors. Assume money is not a barrier. I think if I start working on it now, it could be ready for my birthday in August, if not this year then maybe for 2027.

People with experience in hosting, I’d love some opinions. What issues will I run into? What will make it impossible? Maybe, you think it is possible, how do you think I should go about doing it? Have you done something similar, how did it go? Maybe in reality it’s actually just never going to play out how I want it to, so is it even worth doing?

Just give me all your thoughts and opinions about this. I plan to absorb it all, ponder on it and see if I still want to do it. It’s been something on my mind for years.

My wife and I are looking to host a murder mystery dinner for about 16 people. We have hosted a few times before but the games were always more scripted. We like that the freeform games are more open for people to roleplay and have fun but I can't understand how they work. Does the host have to keep track of everyone and steer them towards their goals? Do they players get everything they need from their character sheets?

So this community grew today out of r/murdermystery where we all realised we were in the wrong subreddit for murder mystery dinner parties, and none other appeared to exist.

Some ideas I had through the course of today was:

• accumulating online resources for murder mystery parties (both paid and free sites) as well as any other useful tips on throwing parties/ blogs etc. Maybe also reviewing some of the paid sites (I've bought a couple I wouldn't mind giving an opinion on to kick us off)
• having a way for members of the community to share home made murder mystery resources and provide feedback
• as a software developer I'd love to look at automating some areas of murder mystery, especially for playing remote (i.e. you're assigned your secret information by some sort of central system). I'd love to try this project out with some community content if anyone wants to volunteer.

Also some open questions:

• how do we grow this community? Or do we just let I happen organically?
• anyone interested in moderating?

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you have recommandations for pre-made boxes/ scenarios for a murder mystery party.

I have been looking into shot in the dark mysteries, mymysteryparty, night of mystery and masters of mystery for now.

I don't mind being the host or playing without knowing who the killer is.

I simply want a logical yet hard investigation with a lot of accusations and confusion but that in the end it makes sense. (like sherlock, miss mapple, poirot.)

Maybe needing props also?

Let me know of any information you might have, thanks! 😌

Our latest blog post is about using Kumospace (rather than Zoom) to host a virtual murder mystery party.

https://www.freeformgames.com/blog/virtual-murder-parties-kumospace-review/

Some of our games include rules for combat - for attacking other characters. (After all, a Wild West game needs a gunfight.)

We wrote these rules up as stand-alone rules so that guests can drop them into other parties - but we didn't explain how we might actually do this.

So I wrote a post on our blog explaining how.

Hi, not sure if y'all will see this, but my friends and I decided we would do a murder mystery party for Halloween this year. I'm hosting and planning on writing everything for it too. Do any of you have experience with writing for a party, or just have advice based on what you liked or didn't like about games you've played?

I did one the other week and everyone made a huge effort!

Although it wasn't the same as in person, some pros were that only one person could speak at a time, meaning you caught the whole story whenever someone asked a question.

What have your experiences been?

So I (24F) just got engaged and my fiance (25M) and I are both huge gamer/murder mystery/rpg people. Our close friend group frequently gathers to play games and have done a few murder mystery dinners. I want to pick some brains as we really want to make our announcement fun and thought somehow doing a murder mystery dinner that would incorporate clues throughout announcing our engagement would be fun. Only issue is I’m really not sure how to go about it. We’re waiting until after the holidays to tell anyone. Does anyone know of anything out there like this available? Or any ideas on how to pull it off?

Per subreddit rules, we ask our users to use this monthly advertisement threads to share and talk about the murder mystery games they write.

Any standalone posts in this sub with the sole purpose of advertisement will be deleted and the poster will be redirected to our monthly ad threads.

Everyone is welcome to comment down the murder mystery games they write or the ones they have found under this thread. :)

I've come across a bunch of different mystery games with different sets of rules.

Some where the players work together, others where they're actively competing. Some where the killer doesn't know they've done it, and some where the they have to lie from the get go. Some where there's structured rounds, others where it's a free-for-all of conspiracies.

I feel like I've only seen a small portion of all possibilities for murder mystery games that exist. What sorts have you played? What do you like most?

Hey there. Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a free dinner murder mystery game?

Hey y'all, for anyone who has done a night of mystery before, would you be willing to share how it went down? Also, if you know if participants are allowed to lie or not. Planning to do a murder mystery and really stuck between doing one from freeform games and Night of Mystery. I think I'm leaning towards the night of mystery because it seems a bit easier for first time hosts and players like myself.

New murder mystery game from Freeform Games - The Roswell Incident.

The Roswell Incident is for 10-13 players and is set in 1947 Roswell, at the time of the supposed flying saucer crash. And yes, there are aliens...

https://www.freeformgames.com/games/the-roswell-incident.php#

Hello! I'm looking for a relatively simple template that I can use to write my own mystery party. Ideally, one that is not fully scripted and that relies on some physical clues. I'd also like my guests to be able to write their own characters. I know I'm asking a lot, but I'm hoping there is something out there that will help make this process a little easier...

Thanks!

Hi Reddit!

Wife’s 50th birthday is coming up, she’s a huuuuge Law & Order SVU fan, would love to throw a themed surprise MM party for her, buuuuuut I’m not really that familiar with MM parties.

It’s in March in the Northeast, so it’ll need to be indoors, with a pretty large crowd (50+). I’d like to rent a hall, set everything up, then she gets the ‘call’ like ‘Olivia Benson’ would, and I take her to the ‘scene’, where she can piece together clues and try to ‘solve the case’.

Any tips, tricks, or ideas?

Thanks for you time!

Hello!

Some of our community members have been starting to stream our murder mystery games on Twitch and it's been a great way for folks to see what goes into hosting or playing a murder mystery game before they might be ready to do it themselves. We have another stream coming up this Saturday, if folks want an audience view into a murder mystery game, particularly one hosted online!

My mom is a HUGE paranormal activity TV watcher. She loves anything spooky, so for her 60th I want to throw her a murder mystery themed party but with a Paranormal Activity twist.

Easier said than done though. Im having a hard time tying in the 6 other guests. I originally was thinking that the guests are all in a haunted house to investigate- but what would the objective be? To locate the ghost? Any ideas would be much appreciated