Murder Mystery

Masquerade Ball Murder Mystery Party Game

★ MURDER AT THE MASQUERADE — a Venetian whodunit for 4-12 players ★

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

Carnival, 1897. A palazzo that has given a masked ball for two hundred and forty years gives one it cannot afford, and the creditor from Milan is coming to say so at midnight. At half past twelve they find him drowned in the storeroom by the water-gate.

🎭 THE TWIST THIS ONE IS BUILT ON

Every guest can tell you exactly where they were standing when he died, and every one of them is telling the truth. It does not help. The murder was already finished hours before he drowned — so the question is not who was missing at midnight. It is who was busy at four in the afternoon.

🖼 FULLY ILLUSTRATED — NEW EDITION

• 12 painted character portraits, one on every character sheet

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

• 6 photographed evidence documents — the deed, the ledger, the receipts, the tide table, the packed case, the promissory notes

Each document proves something about somebody in the room. Read them closely and you can solve it before the reveal.

👤 12 CHARACTERS, EACH WITH A REAL SECRET

The 6 at the centre carry the mystery — the Contessa who signed the palazzo away and told nobody, her son with his hand on nine notes in her name, the singer with a packed case behind the harpsichord, the secretary two per cent lighter on every settlement, the dealer who sold three pictures out of this house that were copies, and the gondolier who has not needed a tide table since he was fourteen.

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 night

• 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, no app and no cutting 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.

🖨 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.