Step 4: Cut the clues
This is the hardest part of hosting a murder mystery game, my friends: cutting the clues. First, you must own a pair of scissors, or borrow a set from a friend. The text of each clue is in a box, and you simply cut between the borders. The danger (aside from using non-safety scissors, of course) is peeking at the clues. We suggest cutting the clues while watching television so you won’t be tempted to read ahead.
Step 5: Invite your guests
How you invite your guests is up to you. There are many great invite websites that send your invitations electronically via email (such as evite.com). You can also phone them or send out your invitations via mail.
Step 6: When your guests arrive, follow the instructions in your murder mystery game package.
Each section (called “Chapters”) begins with a section entitled “Instructions” or “Directions”, which instruct you what to do. There are two types of clues: Share and Hide. The “Share” clues must be shared with the group, and the “Hide” clues must be hidden from everyone. Some games also contain Super Secrets clues, which advises the recipient of one person with which they can share their clue. See how easy this is? When you have completed all of the chapters, each guest must accuse a character of the murder. Then, the murderer confesses or the detective solves the crime, and the game is over!

Step 7: Charge the battery on your cordless phone
This step is essential, because your battery could go dead with all of the phone calls you’ll receive the next day from guests telling you how much fun they had. But you’re not off the hook yet, there’s one more step to hosting a murder mystery game.
Step 8: Send Shot In The Dark Mystery Games pictures from your party.
Send us your shots for our photo gallery – not only can you be famous on a page on our website, your guests will love to check out the pictures you took on the Internet!
Easy? Indeed! Anyone can host a murder mystery game party, and you don’t have to be rich with a big house or a group of actors on your guest list. By following these easy steps, your next party could be one your guests will never forget!

Also, it can be fun to have your own Clue Murder Mystery Party. Rent the movie, and break out the board game. If your thinking of acting out a murder mystery, you may wish to check out a couple of Agatha Christie Novels and model your party after the british cozy writer. Or you can get some Raymond Chandler novels and create a hard boiled detective party.
Guests can come wearing costumes from the thirties and you can play music from the era in the background. Any murder mystery party should have a dinner table scene. It gives your guests a chance to refuel, and exchange questions concerning the mystery with the actors. You may even have someone pretend to be poisoned and die right at the table. It will be difficult for people to pretend to be dead during the course of the entire party so you may wish to move the ‘body’ as it were to the guest bedroom. Once there, the actor can hang out during the rest of the party or change into a different costume and ‘arrive’ at the party as a different guest. Party favors can be whistles and magnifying glasses.

Step one is setting the scene. In a Scooby Doo way, describe the mystery with the basics… person, place, and thing. Encourage the children to fill in the blanks along the way if you are having a hard time being creative.
Step two is to search for clues. Integrating the scenery you drive by and the stops you plan to take along the way as props, work the children through the story. Adding pieces to the plot as you go.
Step three, and quite possibly the most difficult step, is gauging the time to fit the scenario. Planning isn’t everything though. Keeping the children involved, laughing and guessing, is undoubtedly the best part about this entertainment. You would be surprised at where your children’s imaginations can take you.
This game can be tailored to any mystery cartoon also. Powder puff girls, teenage mutant ninja turtles, inspector gadget are just the tip of the iceberg.

1 - Find out what you are interested in,
2 - Look for information on subjects of interest,
3 - Search for constants to confirm your understanding,
4 - Filter out needless information and garbage from real knowledge,
5 - Act only on what you believe to be the truth.
To demonstrate the above points I have devised a little mystery for you. I hope you will find this not only a stimulating exercise but also a bit of fun.
Listed below is a set of 16 clues to a murder investigation involving the occupants of five consecutive houses. They are all you need to solve the mystery of "Who Killed Who."
The "Who Killed Who" Murder Mystery Clues:
1- The Motivator plays bowls on Saturday.
2 - When facing the houses, the house with the blue roof is immediately to the right of the house with the grey roof.
3 - The man in the middle house plays golf twice a week.
4 - The woman in the house with the blue roof is a hockey player.
5 - The Scientist lives in the first house, near the cheesecake shop.
6 - The person who drives a Jaguar lives next to the man with the Dalmatian.
7 - The person who lives in the house with the red roof drives a Renault.
8 - The Scientist lives in the house next to the house with the green roof.
9 - The Accountant’s house has a Volkswagen parked in the driveway.
10 - The man who drives the Lexus owns a Shitzhu.
11 - The Doctor lives in the house with the brown roof.
12 - The house with the Renault in the driveway is next to the house next door to where the Doberman lives.
13 - The murderer’s Poodle went missing on Sunday.
14 - The Lawyer hates dogs but loves cheesecake.
15 - The man who drives the Porsche is a keen jogger and was seen running past the victim’s house just after midnight on Wednesday.
16 - The victim used to enjoy playing lacrosse on Tuesday evenings.

If you solve the mystery all the clues will fit together like a successful crossword puzzle. If you are having difficulty you can email me for some clues.
If you would like to drive all your friends crazy with this you may copy it and send it to them providing nothing is changed and the full contents, including the resource box below remains intact.
Happy problem solving and remember - books are a wonderful source of education.
Hint: Make a drawing of the five houses.

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If you get a secondhand murder mystery (from a friend or a garage sale), you can make your own invitations on the computer to send out. Remember to include the character name and proposed costume, as well as the date, time, and location on the invitation.
Now that you have the right number of people coming to your party, you just need to sort out some logistics for the party. You will need a place (you can use a table or a living area) that has seating for everyone. You might also need a cassette player or a cd player. Check your game. Don’t forget to organize the food and drinks too!
Read through the instructions once before your guests arrive. Make sure that you understand how the game will go. Often, there is some scripted dialogue, followed by some discoveries or admissions, and then some time for accusations. This will happen more than once. There is often also time for unscripted dialogue that is still in character. Don’t read through the character booklets. This will spoil the mystery which will spoil the fun for you.
Greet everyone in character and by their character name. Have nametags for everyone so that you can remember each person’s assumed name. Create inventive reasons that somebody might have committed the murder, and make it up as you.

Murder mystery parties can be a great way to have fun. It’s an excuse to dress up, to get together, and to have a blast. Planning the party is simply elementary, my dear Watson.

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A third option is to combine both. Tell some people in advance which characters they will be playing, and leave some to the last minute to cover all eventualities. Then there’s casting itself , how do you actually decide who gets which character? There’s no hard and fast rule for this as nobody knows your friends the way you do. I have both cast characters on an entirely random basis and according to who was turning up. Both seem to work. (You could of course ask your guests what sort of character they would like , but then you run the risk of someone being disappointed when you can’t, for whatever reason, cast them in their preferred role.) I don’t recommend sending out the whole character background in advance. If you do that, you run the risk that your guests (particularly close friends and partners) may actually start playing before the evening! They may well accidentally give away secrets , and unintentionally spoil the evening. You also have an even bigger problem if someone drops out , you can’t give their character to someone else (because they know things about their first character) so you would need to try and find an extra person from somewhere.
3) Catering First things first , while some murder mystery parties are designed around a sit-down meal, some are not. Instead, the players need the freedom to move around the room, to skulk in corners and to talk privately with one another. They can’t do that if they are sitting down having a three-course meal. If you do want to provide a meal, you really have two options. The first is to provide the meal in advance. Invite your guests early, feed them and then (during coffee) hand out their characters. The problem with this is that dinner parties I’ve been to drag on into the evening. And I’ve rarely wanted to do anything other than digest afterwards.
Having a sit-down meal in the middle of a mystery game doesn’t work either , it breaks the atmosphere and forces someone into the kitchen and away from the game. The second option is to provide finger food , slices of pizza, a cold buffet, sandwiches or whatever takes your fancy. Finger food is ideal , it can be prepared in advance (with minimal effort in most cases) and the guests can "graze" at their leisure. You could also ask your guests to contribute to the meal to help you with the workload. Drink is another matter altogether. It’s absolutely essential to provide enough soft drinks or water. Murder mystery games are conversational, and your guests will pretty soon become very thirsty. So stock up on soda, water, coffee or juice or whatever you think people will want to drink. Whether you serve alcohol or not is a matter of personal preference. Too much alcohol almost always ruins a game, so it needs to be moderated carefully. A little alcohol can sometimes overcome players’ inhibitions and start the game rolling.

4) Atmosphere Murder mystery games are much improved if you make just a few efforts to generate the right atmosphere. An appropriate atmosphere helps everyone with their character, and can turn an entertaining evening into a truly memorable one. Here, then, are a few tips on creating a good atmosphere. Costumes: Perhaps the strongest way of creating a great atmosphere is to encourage your guests to wear an appropriate costume. (Costumes look great in photographs as well.) If your guests are finding it hard to find a costume (not everyone has the time or money to search out a good costume), a token effort , perhaps a hat, or coat , can also work wonders. A Sense of Space: Where you hold the murder mystery game can affect the atmosphere. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find a location suitable for the game. However, murder mystery games are rarely so lucky and are usually held in homes. With a little bit of planning, however, you can create a sense of space. Anachronisms: For period games you might want to conceal or remove anachronistic items. Computers, lava lamps and other lightweight can be moved to a spare room. As for furniture and heavy appliances such as televisions and stereo systems, try concealing them with a cloth or blanket. Props: Some murder mystery games involve items such as items up for auction or books for sale.
As far as the game is concerned, these are usually represented by slips of card or paper , however, if you have access to suitable props, why not use them? Two caveats. First, if it’s important to the mystery that nobody knows who has a certain item, it might be better keeping it as a slip of card rather than a bulky prop. Second, and I can’t stress this highly enough, never use props for weapons. Period. It’s just too dangerous , anyone passing may not realise that you’re just playing a game and if they see someone brandishing a weapon they will call the police. It’s really not worth the risk. Sound: Period music or sound effects can be used to create an atmosphere. Large libraries often have a music section, with a wide selection of sound effects. Food: If you are preparing food you might want to provide something appropriate to the setting.
5) Handling Questions

As written, the murder mystery games cannot answer every eventuality. Your guests are likely to be highly imaginative people. They will have ideas that nobody else has thought of , and there’s only one person they can turn to: you. Unfortunately, that means you’re going to be asked questions during the evening. You can’t predict some of the things that you’re going be asked , so I don’t even try. My motto: expect the unexpected.
I tend to use three simple rules when it comes to answering player questions. Is it fun? Often when a player asks something, they already have an answer in mind. If it sounds fun (which often means dramatic) then I’m likely to say yes. Is it fair? In trying to get an advantage over another character and achieve their goals, players sometimes come up with suggestions that would upset the game for everyone else. In this case I either say no, or add enough requirements so as to make it very difficult to succeed. And then I’ll give the other players plenty of opportunity to make it fail.
Make it up. Your guests haven’t seen the full murder mystery document. They don’t know if the game is supposed to go in a particular direction or not. The games generally go in whichever direction the players take them , but that’s okay. As the players don’t know that there isn’t a "correct" way to run a murder mystery game (they are always different), I can therefore invent anything I think is reasonable. And so can you , your guests won’t know the difference. Remember that the host is impartial , you shouldn’t take sides. If someone wants to do something that will put him or her at a significant advantage over another character, you shouldn’t necessarily forbid it , just make it difficult. Make them work for that advantage.
P.S. The more time that your guests have to read their characters and the rules, the better. I suggest allowing at least 20 minutes before the start of the game to give people time to absorb the information. That should also give them time to settle down. You’ll have fewer questions if you give everyone a chance to read their characters in peace and quiet.
And Finally
Once you’ve run a murder mystery game once, all of the above will seem like common sense. And it is , running these games really isn’t hard. They do require some work, but it is worth it. So go on , run your own murder mystery party game and have a blast.

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