Murder Mystery

Alpine Clinic Murder Mystery Party Game

★ MURDER AT THE HOHENSTEIN — a 1981 alpine clinic whodunit for 4-12 players ★

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The Hohenstein is nine beds above a Swiss lake, for people who can pay for a quiet ending. Konrad Faust came up in June and was told in the same week that he had about nine weeks. On the eleventh of September he was found dead at six in the morning, with an empty ampoule in the bed and the drug cupboard signed out in the hand of the physician who had refused him in April.

🎭 THE TWIST THIS ONE IS BUILT ON

The file against her is the best any of these people have ever seen. A refusal she put in writing. A dose she signed for. A cupboard she had the only spare key to. There is no missing piece anywhere in it — and that is the problem. Everything in that folder is dated from the middle of July, and he was given his nine weeks in the middle of June. Your guests are not looking for the strongest case tonight. They are looking for the one that was not assembled.

🖼 FULLY ILLUSTRATED — NEW EDITION

• 12 painted character portraits, one on every character sheet

• A "Meet Your Characters" page so your guests can see the whole clinic at a glance

• A painted cover of the room as it was found

Nobody hands out a plain sheet of text any more. Your guests get a face to play.

👤 12 CHARACTERS, EACH WITH A REAL SECRET

The 6 at the centre carry the mystery — the physician who put her refusal in writing in April and signed that cupboard out on the night, the brother who was asked in July to help him go and said no and has never told a soul, the daughter who found out in July that the will now leaves everything to the clinic's endowment and nothing to her, the charge nurse who has been three or four ampoules a month short since March in a stock book he writes himself, the night sister who entered four hours in the night book this summer that never happened, and the consultant who put a number on a man's life in June and has been told twice since that he should not have.

6 more of the Hohenstein each get a full sheet of their own: a motive, an alibi, something they saw, and a reason to be nervous. Nobody at your table just watches.

📄 WHAT YOU GET — instant download, 23 pages

• Host Guide — how to run all three rounds

• At a Glance — the whole game on one page, safe to read even if you are playing

• The Tangle — who is covering for whom (host only)

• The Story — read aloud to open the night

• Meet Your Characters — the illustrated cast

• 12 Character Sheets — secret, alibi, what you know, and what to say in Round 3

• Clue Cards for all three rounds

• Accusation Sheets and printable invitations

• The Murderer’s Envelope — hand it to one guest, or leave it sealed and play along yourself

• The Solution — sealed at the back, read aloud at the end

🖨 HOW IT WORKS

1. Print. A4 and US Letter are both included — print at 100% on plain paper.

2. Hand out. One character sheet per guest. At 4 players you use the core 6; at 12 you hand out every sheet in the file.

3. Play. Three rounds, roughly 90-120 minutes. Clue cards go out at the top of each round.

4. Accuse. Everyone fills in an Accusation Sheet. Read the Solution page aloud — whoever names the murderer, the method AND the motive wins.

You can host AND play. No character sheet tells its owner they are the killer, so read your own and leave the last two pages — the Murderer’s Envelope and the Solution — in an envelope until the vote.

★ GREAT FOR ★

Dinner parties, game nights, girls’ nights in, birthday celebrations, Halloween gatherings, and evenings when a group of friends wants something to do together — small groups and large.

Teen & Adult · Instant digital download · Nothing is shipped · Print it again for the next party.