Murder Mystery

Las Vegas Murder Mystery Kit

★ MURDER AT THE COPPER ROOM — a 1962 Las Vegas whodunit for 4-12 players ★

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The Copper Room threw Sol Kantor a party for his sixty-first on the second Tuesday of October, and Sol threw it for himself, because the room was his and so was most of the hotel above it. Two shows, a cake the size of a card table, and three hundred people who all wanted a minute of him. He spent the evening in the corner booth with the lamp turned down, the way he always did. The busboys found him there at twenty past midnight, and the house doctor arrived at one and said the thing nobody in that room was ready for.

🎭 THE TWIST THIS ONE IS BUILT ON

Six people will tell you they saw Sol Kantor alive between nine and eleven. He had been dead since before the doors opened. Every single sighting in the room is invented — and five of those inventions have nothing whatsoever to do with a murder. Your guests do not have to find the liar. They have to work out which one of them needed a particular minute, and why that minute.

🖼 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 house at a glance

• A painted cover of the top table as it was left

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 room manager who counts the office float alone twice a night and is short every Thursday, the wife who was signing the first set of divorce papers on Fremont Street, the pit boss who forged an owner's nod on a twenty-thousand-dollar marker, the lead dancer who was on the loading dock with a man whose contract has a morals clause, the man in from Chicago who has been initialling the count sheets himself for three months, and the headliner whose money halves in March and who has known since June.

6 more of the house 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.