Unlike the dinner party mysteries, interactive games are not usually played around a table (although food is often served, it is typically a buffet or finger food).

You are given all your information at the start of the game - so that if you are the murderer, you know how and why you committed murder - and you must deflect suspicion away from yourself.

To achieve all these goals, you must negotiate and wheel and deal with the other guests. Typically you might have to find the murderer and pay off your gambling debts or find a specific object or deal with your affair.

As well as solve the murder, each guest has other goals and problems to solve.

However, there's generally more flexibility, so it's not so critical to have exactly the right number of guests.

They usually cater for more guests (up to 200 in one case!).

I like these interactive games for several reasons:

Those parties are played in rounds, usually over a meal, and while I have enjoyed them, I've had much more fun (both in hosting and playing) with the interactive murder mystery games I describe here. These games are very different to the 'how to host.' boxed games you can buy in the stores. The games often include other plots, and everyone becomes involved in an evening of scheming, plotting and blackmailing each other. (The murderer, meanwhile, tries to avoid detection!) What is a murder mystery party game?Įach guest (and the host too) takes on a role - and somebody has committed a murder.ĭuring the party, everyone tries to discover the murderer. Here you will find all the tips and tricks I use when hosting murder parties - including links to my favourites. She had played the murderer and evaded detection - until the last moment when her villainy was revealed!

'Best party ever' is how one guest described a murder mystery party that I'd just hosted.

Crime solving games