Murder Mystery

Christmas Murder Mystery Party Game

★ MURDER AT THE CHRISTMAS TABLE — a Christmas Eve whodunit for 4-12 players ★

Get it on Etsy → Instant digital download · print at home

Wrenfield has done Christmas Eve the same way since before the war: the long table, the good glasses, the punch made to a recipe nobody else is allowed to read, and a hand-written place card at every setting. This year there was more to talk about than usual — Gerald had his solicitor down for the holiday, and everybody in the house knew why. On Boxing Day he meant to sign a new will. They came in at eight, found their cards, and drank. He was talking, as he always was, and then he was not. It was over before the soup came in.

🖼 FULLY ILLUSTRATED — NEW EDITION

• 12 painted portraits, one on every character sheet

• A "Meet Your Characters" page so the whole table can see who sat down to dinner

• 6 photographed documents in the host's dossier — a final demand, an appointment card, two bottles from the larder and more, each one proving something about somebody at that table

Read the dossier closely and you can solve it before the reveal.

🎄 EVERY GUEST CARRIES THREE THINGS

• A SECRET worth lying to the whole room to keep

• SOMEONE THEY PROTECT — they will cover for them even when it looks bad

• LEVERAGE — something they know about another guest, to use the moment they are cornered

Round 1 is not small talk. Everyone gives an alibi and then uses their leverage on somebody, so the table is at each other's throats before the first clue is dealt.

👤 12 GUESTS, EACH WITH A REAL MOTIVE

The 6 at the centre carry the mystery — the sister who has kept this house standing and will not say how, the son who owes more than he can say out loud, the companion who has quietly accepted a post three hundred miles away, the cook whose thirty-year punch recipe is a secret for the wrong reason, the family solicitor who wrote to the head of the house three times this month from inside it, and the younger brother who came home from ten years abroad with nothing at all.

6 more guests 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, 24 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 evening

• Meet Your Characters — the illustrated cast

• The Evidence — the 6-document dossier

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

• Clue Cards for Round 2 and Round 3

• Accusation Sheet — one per guest

• Printable Invitation

• ★ Full Solution — every clue explained, sealed at the very back

🎲 HOW IT WORKS

1. Buy → download instantly (nothing is shipped)

2. Print at home — A4 and US Letter are both included, nothing to cut out except the clue cards

3. Hand out the sheets, read The Story aloud, play three rounds, then vote

👥 4 TO 12 PLAYERS

6 is the full mystery. At 4 or 5 the Host Guide tells you exactly who to drop and which clue card to move. Up to 12, the extra guests each hold a sheet of their own — they question, they get questioned, they vote, and they can win.

⏱ 90-120 minutes · Teen & Adult · The host can play too — nobody’s sheet names the killer, so keep the last two pages sealed until the vote.

🎁 Made for Christmas Eve, a holiday dinner party, or the evening everybody is home and nobody knows what to do. No script to learn, no costume to buy, no accent to attempt. Print at home on plain paper. No app, no batteries, no pieces to lose.

★ 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.