Murder Mystery

Wedding Murder Mystery Party Game

★ MURDER AT THE WEDDING RECEPTION — an English country-house whodunit for 4-12 players ★

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The Larkspur has done country weddings for sixty years and has a way of making everybody behave. A four o'clock service in the village church, eighty guests, a marquee on the south lawn, and a walled garden beyond it with a stone ice house sunk into the far corner. The day would have been perfectly ordinary except for one thing, and every guest saw it: when the vicar asked whether anyone knew any reason why these two should not be joined, Rex Calloway stood up.

🎭 THE TWIST THIS ONE IS BUILT ON

He stood there for perhaps four seconds. Then he sat down again and said nothing at all, and by the time they came out into the light everyone had decided it was a joke gone wrong. Nobody asked him. That is the thing they will all have to live with — because at seven the next morning a gardener found the ice house bolted on the outside with Rex Calloway inside it. Your guests are not hunting for a weapon. They are working out what he was about to say, and which of them already knew.

🖼 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 table at a glance

• A painted cover of the garden 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 mother of the bride who has not had any money of her own for six years, the groom whose company has been empty since March, the bride who went to the bank herself in April and married him anyway, the sister who has been writing to the dead man since the spring, the best man who has taken four thousand pounds out of the firm in pieces small enough to look like nothing, and the mother of the groom who sold her house in February and put every penny of it into her son's business.

6 more of the wedding party 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.