Murder mystery party kits · 8 to 12 players

Nobody hosts.
Everyone plays.
Everyone's wrong.

Print the kit. Seal eight envelopes. Open one file on the TV. Sit down with everyone else. By Act 2 you will be certain who did it. So will everyone else. You will not agree.

Get Case 01 — $29See how it works

A game about confidence. Technically about murder.

How it works

The screen runs the party. You play. It has done this before.

Print and seal

One folded card per player and eight evidence cards. Put the evidence in envelopes without reading it. Fifteen minutes, and it never spoils the answer.

Open the Conductor

A single file that runs in any browser on a TV, laptop, tablet, or phone. Offline. No app, no account. Tick who's here and deal the cards it tells you to.

Play three acts

The Conductor paces the night, releases envelopes on cue, delivers in-fiction messages, questions every guest by name, and runs the votes. No dead air. No “what do we do now.”

The reveal

Final accusations around the table, then the Conductor reads what really happened, which faction got what it wanted, and who is Guest of the Evening.

Why it's different

Built to fix the three things every kit gets wrong.

One card each

No booklets nobody reads. Your character, your secret, your motive, and two specific people you have to talk to. Under a page for the whole night.

Nobody drives

Every other kit needs a host who knows the answer and spends the evening handing out clues. Here the Conductor does that, and the person who bought the kit gets to play.

Three endings

Three factions, three petitions, three different epilogues. Solve the murder, or don't, and still change how the story ends. Play it again with a different table.

Case 01
NOBODY HOSTS · CASE 01

The Last Harvest

Augustin Marrow built the most famous vineyard in the valley on one legendary vintage. Tonight, at the Harvest Dinner, he was going to announce its future. He died before the toast. Everyone at this table believed they knew what he was about to say. Every one of them was wrong. One of them made sure he never said it.

  • 8 to 12 players. The Second Wife, The Heir Apparent, The Prodigal, The Family Physician, The Winemaker, The Buyer, The Estate Lawyer, The Critic, and four more for bigger tables.
  • About two and a half hours. Pause any time.
  • You supply: 8 envelopes, a sheet of stickers, 3 pens. Costumes optional. Wine encouraged.
  • Content note: a poisoning, an affair, financial fraud, a decades-old fire, family inheritance. PG-13. No real people.
$24 $29 launch priceBuy on Etsy

Instant download. Any three cases for $69. New cases every eight weeks.

Next cases

Same narrator. Same world. New table.

Case 02 · Midnight, Provisionally

A New Year's Eve party at a ski chalet where the countdown never reaches zero. Winter.

Case 03 · The Rehearsal Dinner

The night before a wedding, the person paying for it stops breathing. Spring.

Case 04 · Reunion

Twenty years after graduation, someone finally tells the truth, briefly. Summer.

Get the next case the week it comes out.

Questions

Things people ask. Usually with great confidence.

Does someone still have to set it up?

Yes, and it takes fifteen minutes. Printing, folding, and sealing envelopes without reading them. The setup person never learns the solution, so they play like everyone else.

Do we need internet at the party?

No. The Conductor is one file. Open it once and it works offline. Nothing to install, no account.

What if someone doesn't show up?

Optional characters come in pairs, so a table of 10 becomes a table of 8 cleanly. If one of the core eight is missing, the Conductor has an “empty chair” switch and reads that character's testimony itself.

Can we play it twice?

The killer is the same, so the same group can't replay it cold. But there are three endings, and with a different table it plays differently. Buy three cases and save.

I already know who did it.

Of course you do. Everyone does, by Act 2. That is the name of the company.

Is it appropriate for teenagers?

Rated PG-13. Every case has a content note on the listing and on the first screen. No sexual violence, nothing involving children, no real people.

What do I actually need to buy?

Eight envelopes, one sheet of round stickers, three pens. That's it.

Refunds?

Digital downloads are final, but if anything in a kit is wrong or unclear we fix the file and send you the new one. Message [email protected].

Guides

Read before the party.