Murder mystery games

[Russinating]

We've got a 13-bed manor house in Scotland booked in January and we want to do a murder mystery one night. Short story is I'm struggling to find anything decent as most seem to be cheap download/make yourself ones.

We'd either want a posted game, with the right number of people and sexes, so that nobody knows the game/characters etc, or even a hosted one where somebody comes along with all the stuff and drives the story (I'm guessing as a police character etc).

As there's 13 of us even £200-300 for a custom-written or hosted game would work out at £20 each which is well worth it so long as it's decent. Can anyone recommend any companies?

 

[BrightonBelle]

That's pretty awesome.

We did one of the box Murder Mysteries last NYE and found out that even though it says you can have 9 people with the 8-10 box - you really need 10 as then you get all of the clues.

Having a bespoke one would be brilliant. Another NYE we went to an organised party with actors etc.

I asked them to spec me a price for a work Christmas Party but that was at my old job

The company we went to (very good) is killinggame.co.uk

Depends on what you want really. The other one I am going to look into is: http://punchdrunk.com/current-shows/column/1

We were going to go to the one in New York but ran out of time.

BB x

 

[Ekim]

Depends on what you want really. The other one I am going to look into is: http://punchdrunk.com/current-shows/column/1

Went to see this a few weeks ago, not sure if you got the wrong end of the stick it definitely isn't a murder mystery night.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Sounds great, but £200-300? That seems a bit low for an ad-hoc, bespoke event.

 

[Russinating]

That's pretty awesome.

'Tis! It's this place:

Which is only £45 each for 4 nights in January. Should be pretty good

Thanks for the link to the Killing Game but unfortunately they don't cover Scotland.

 

[Russinating]

Sounds great, but £200-300? That seems a bit low for an ad-hoc, bespoke event.

Yeah maybe, but it's only 2-3 hours of one person's time in January (that's if it's hosted). If it's just custom written then I think it'd be less than that - and by custom written I just mean the right number of people and sexes rather than written from scratch with a bespoke story.

 

[DirtyJester]

Looks like the victim is the gardener...

 

[boxman2000]

Very timely thread, had thought about doing a murder mystery meal again.

Going to order this for later in the year - 'Murder a la Carte The Brie, the Bullet & the Black Cat Mystery Dinner Party Game' (Amazon).

Did one a few years ago and I have never laughed so much in my life, especially with my mate turning up in a genuine Vickers outfit and his g/f in a genuine Nun's outfit - still never found out how they got hold of them!