Murder Mystery

Vineyard Murder Mystery Party Game

★ MURDER AT PODERE CAVALLI — a Tuscan harvest whodunit for 4-12 players ★

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Podere Cavalli picks the Sangiovese in the third week of September and has done since 1948. There were forty pickers in the dormitory, a full cantina, and a valuation sitting on the kitchen table. At half past six on Thursday morning Enzo Sarti, who had run this estate for thirty years, was found face down between two rows a quarter of a mile from the buildings. He went out most nights of harvest to taste the fruit and read the sugars. Nobody thought anything of the torch.

🎭 THE TWIST THIS ONE IS BUILT ON

The same night, somebody put a bar through the cantina office window, took the cash box with fourteen thousand euro in it and a case of the 1997 riserva off the rack. Every single person on this estate has spent two days assuming those are the same story. They are not. Your guests will spend an hour solving the wrong crime — and the moment they realise it is the best moment in the game.

🖼 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 estate at a glance

• A painted cover of the row where he 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 winemaker who has been blending in fruit from outside the zone for three vintages, the cellarmaster who went through that window at half past midnight, the accountant who told the dead man in August that the weighbridge tickets did not match the harvest, the owner with a real offer sitting behind that valuation, the son who owes eleven thousand euro to people who have been to his mother's gate twice this summer, and the head of the pickers with six men in his crew who have no papers.

6 more of the estate 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.