- Everything you need to serve up the perfect murder mystery dinner party
- Choose which of your friends will play which character and who will be the murderer
- Party planner, rules, recipes, place cards, invitations and envelopes, plus 6 secret clues and character booklets
- DVD featuring a guest celebrity with an introduction, scene setter, summary of events and solution to the crime
- For 6-8 players
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| Model Number: | 2850 |
| Assembly Required: | No |
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Everything you need to serve up the perfect murder mystery dinner party. Choose which of your friends will play which character and who will be the murderer. Contains party planner, game rules, recipes, place cards, invitations and envelopes, plus 6 secret clues. Also includes character booklets for each character including their roles, background and a few tasty secrets. Comes with a DVD featuring a guest celebrity with an introduction, scene setter, summary of events and solution to the crime. For 6 to 8 players.
Product Description
This Murder Mystery game is based on a Hercule Poirot Mystery. It contains everything you need for a drop dead great night in - except the guests!
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89 of 89 people found the following review helpful
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We played this murder party last New Years Eve, and found it hilarious. By the closing round we were all very imaginative and competitive about working out whodunnit. Clues were great, plot was easy to follow, DVD added to the detail and info. There are 3 golden rules I would suggest if you've never done one of these before...
1. Carefully match characters to guests - giving louder roles to more out going guests. (obvious but worth it, as you need someone not afraid to throw themselves into it to make everyone else relax into their roles).
2. Make sure everyone knows that they are supposed to dress and behave in character. - including accents... (again obvious, but do tell them it's expected and not optional. I guarantee that they will get so much more fun out of the experience if they have made an effort, and feel like they have done something different...but do remember to give guests plenty of notice so they can pull together a 'look' and perhaps go to charity shops for costumes...
3. Do make the effort to play this over dinner - it's much better than with a buffet or just drinks (which I've also done with other murder mystery party games - with much lesser results). Over the meal, you can relax from the spotlight, think up better padding for your story, take inspiration from other characters, think up questions for others, which all add to the success of the game.
A last thing - I would say that min age should be 11 - 12 yrs. Not because of content, but for ability to follow the threads of what is happening. We had a party with ages ; 8yr old (bit young - had to explain a bit on the way through, 11yrs, 21yrs, 30 something, 43yrs and 3 sixty somethings. Amazingly we were all highly entertained for hours. We're definately going to do another this Xmas holidays. Check out the 70's Disco party night set, that was great. I'm going to try the Poirot interactive DVD game aswell this year.
This is a game for 6 - 8 players
1. Carefully match characters to guests - giving louder roles to more out going guests. (obvious but worth it, as you need someone not afraid to throw themselves into it to make everyone else relax into their roles).
2. Make sure everyone knows that they are supposed to dress and behave in character. - including accents... (again obvious, but do tell them it's expected and not optional. I guarantee that they will get so much more fun out of the experience if they have made an effort, and feel like they have done something different...but do remember to give guests plenty of notice so they can pull together a 'look' and perhaps go to charity shops for costumes...
3. Do make the effort to play this over dinner - it's much better than with a buffet or just drinks (which I've also done with other murder mystery party games - with much lesser results). Over the meal, you can relax from the spotlight, think up better padding for your story, take inspiration from other characters, think up questions for others, which all add to the success of the game.
A last thing - I would say that min age should be 11 - 12 yrs. Not because of content, but for ability to follow the threads of what is happening. We had a party with ages ; 8yr old (bit young - had to explain a bit on the way through, 11yrs, 21yrs, 30 something, 43yrs and 3 sixty somethings. Amazingly we were all highly entertained for hours. We're definately going to do another this Xmas holidays. Check out the 70's Disco party night set, that was great. I'm going to try the Poirot interactive DVD game aswell this year.
This is a game for 6 - 8 players
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is a reasonably well produced set which we used for my daughter's 14th birthday party - at her request. Ideally the cast/guests should be a little older as they'd appreciate and get into their roles a bit better. At some points it seemed like it wasn't really working as they got muddled over who did what and when. But after smoothing out the wrinkles the story continued and perhaps it was my fault for not organising them properly.
The DVD was useful but lacks some of the production values the eagle-eyed youth might expect. (e.g. the dodgy moustache and the change of shirt collars, to say nothing of the dodgy acting!)
The plot was the usual Agatha Christie nonsense and the solution was only one of several we could come up with.
The girls reported back that they'd had a good time and I think we could be doing this again some time soon. This set was fine and easily adapted to a birthday teatime. The key is for the host to know the process and not to be too tied up with either the cooking or the game (there was a bit of a gap for one course as I'd not been able to get the oven on early enough as I was tied up with one of the dodgy moments).
The DVD was useful but lacks some of the production values the eagle-eyed youth might expect. (e.g. the dodgy moustache and the change of shirt collars, to say nothing of the dodgy acting!)
The plot was the usual Agatha Christie nonsense and the solution was only one of several we could come up with.
The girls reported back that they'd had a good time and I think we could be doing this again some time soon. This set was fine and easily adapted to a birthday teatime. The key is for the host to know the process and not to be too tied up with either the cooking or the game (there was a bit of a gap for one course as I'd not been able to get the oven on early enough as I was tied up with one of the dodgy moments).
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This product was bought in order to throw a party for two of my close friends as a birthday treat. And it certainly was that, the story was very in depth and strangely amusing. The DVD introductions to the rounds brought much hilarity and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I recommend it for anyone who wants to do something a little bit different.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent fun
As a large family, we love 'game' playing. Bought this for Christmas, had everyone round for a meal and it was one of the best nights ever! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ms. Lesley M. Spencer
A First Class Murder Mystery
New Years Eve 2010 went with a real swing playing this game. We had 6 people in total, and could have had another 2. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Stuart
Murder Mystery for a dinner party
This was very enjoyable, particularly as all guests entered into the spirit of the occasion and dressed up, even attempting the various accents. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Alex
A First Class Murder
I would not rate this as a toy. It is really more suitable for entertainment for adults. Very well supported by the items in the pack although the link between the video and the... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Stephen R. Marchant
Poirot game
Bought as a gift which has not been opened yet, but it looks most intriguing and hope it will be popular with the recipient.
Published on 20 May 2010 by Cook's Delight
Murder Mystery Dinner Party
We used this on New Year's Eve. A Murder Mystery Dinner Party is great fun. Each guest is informed of the character they will play via a printed invitation. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2010 by D. Ransom
Not good
Unfortunately, the failure of this product spoilt what should have been a very enjoyable dinner party, the food was good and everyone dressed up for the occasion. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by Crit-as-eyes
Excellent Birthday Party choice
This was an inspirational idea for a 12th birthday party, and it was brilliant. You need to be organised as the host and be on hand to guide - there were one or two small typo... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2009 by JB
great party
I bought this for my daughter's birthday party and it was brilliant! Her friends enjoyed dressing up and i found the theme of the 'murder' not to 'sexy' for a young teens party. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2009
Murderous Fun
I hadn't been to a murder mystery party before this one but had always wanted to do one! Though none of us had done a murder mystery party before and most of us weren't really sure... Read more
Published on 26 May 2009 by Ms. S. Ware
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