Murder Mystery Dinner Party

[Katy Belle]

Has anyone hosted a murder mystery dinner party? My DS12 wants to have this type of party. It would need to be one that we could down-load. Has anyone used any company on-line that they were happy with?

Did you use the "script" type or the "clue" type. He thinks he would like a script... but if you have good stories about the "clue"type we may go with that.

Thanks!
Katy

 

[happygirl]

I have no words of wisdom. Have a great time I love murder mystery

 

[MrsToad]

We used to do this every New Years Eve with friends and I always used the boxed games that had a complete storyline. The game is for 8 players and each player gets a script with several acts (you don't want to read past the current act so as not to know too soon that you may be the murderer). We used this line of stories (there are several by this maker):

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The game tells you how to incorporate the acts around a several course dinner and/or how to use costumes to add to the fun (we never used costumes but did play the game between dinner courses).

Have a great time!

 

[MovieJunkie]

In college we did a big Italian dinner/mafia murder mystery party. We did not have scripts, but we had roles that we were meant to play as well as knowledge that was to be openly shared (name, birthdate, relation to other party members, etc) and then various secrets that had to be gotten out of us -- some of it was relevant, some of it wasn't. I liked that because it let us get a bit creative and pretend to be the people we were, while not limiting us to a script.

Either way though, murder mystery dinner parties are SO much fun! I hope your son really enjoys it!

 

[luvflorida]

We hosted a murder mystery party this weekend.

My son-in-law put together the party for our daughter's 25th birthday. It was a total surprise for her, and she didn't know anything about it until he handed her an envelope with her character and instructions enclosed.

There were ten people involved. It was a clue type of murder mystery, no scripts. I believe the entire scenario was written by daughter's husband. I played the personal assistant to "Robert Lear", and acted as the hostess of the evening. I was at the house and greeted each guest as they arrived, all at staggered times. Six of the players were the ones that did most of the running around and solving of clues. In addition to the hostess and the six guests, there was also a Mafia boss (my husband) a police lieutenant, and the victim ("Robert Lear").

My son-in-law was worried that the mystery would go quickly, but just the opposite happened. The party started at 6:30pm and didn't rap up until after 10pm. Clues were gone over and characters met and shared info while they enjoyed some appetizers. They then left the house in two cars to follow the clues. When they had the last clue (which led them back to the house with a key to a safe containing the victim's will) the police detective returned, along with the supposedly dead Robert Lear. All ws sorted out and the mystery was solved. We then enjoyed cake and ice cream.

It really was a lot of fun, but I'm also sure it took a lot of planning on the part of our son-in-law. I was surprised at how well everyone remained true to their characters. A few never broke character, whereas some couldn't help but laugh at times. The funniest part was that some of the guests didn't realize that they'd be leaving the house to find clues and several of them were dressed a bit crazy.

And I think my husband came close to being thrown out of the local mall for loitering. He played a Mafia boss and the guests were to meet him at the food court. Well, it took them longer to get to that particular clue, so my husband had to sit around the food court for close to an hour. He was wearing sunglasses and a hat, but took them off after the security guard circled around twice. He also said he had to keep getting something to eat,and he moved to diffferent tables a few times. Not at all suspicious!

Here a few pics from the
discussing clues and getting to know one another

opening the safe:

reading of the will:

"Lt. Johnstone" and "Robert Lear" appear:

I'm sure your son and his friends would have a lot of fun doing a murder mystery party! Not having a script made everything more spontaneous, but it also probably kept it harder to rap up the party at a certain time. Either senario would be fun, I think!

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[Inigo]

Oops. I originally posted a reply to another thread. Anyway...

I was just in a murder mystery dinner play two weeks ago, sponsored by our city's revitalization agency. We raised quite a bit of money, and the 200 guests seemed to enjoy the show.

It was a blast, even though I didn't get to kill anyone. We have three more scripts that we will be staging over the next year, so that may change in the future.

Our scripts were written by a woman in the community, and were based on historical events in the area. This woman is active at the historical society, so she was a natural to write the scripts.

I personally would go for a script, instead of just ad libbing it as you go along. Having a script gives a framework, especially if this is the first time you've done something like this. Of course, even with a script, your actors can always ad lib. (I added quite a bit to my part. Let's just say Suzanne/me turned out to be rather colorful!)

Good luck, and I hope your daughter has a blast.

 

[Rora]

Don't have any advice, but I just wanted to chime in on how cool this party would be! I've always wanted to do a murder mystery dinner train ride!!

Have a great time OP and good luck!!