Eastside Story: 1950s Murder Mystery Party Game

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Regular price $48.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU FIFTIES
  • Age Range 14 to Adult
  • Minimum # of Players 8 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 16 Suspects and 2 Optional Teams
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 80: 22 Suspects, Up to 58 Team Roles (2 Teams)
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 5/10
  • Roles Co-Ed (See Host Character List)
  • Interactive Extras Evidence Card, 1950's Slang-ictionary
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At Frosty’s Diner in Fontaine City in 1955, where the rival D-Birds and Pit Vipers, along with their cliques, gather amid hot rods, teenage rebellion, and escalating gang tension.
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Greasers, Cheerleaders & Rivals * Clean Retro Sock-Hop Fun
  • Publication Date 2017. Last Revised: 2021

A retro 1950s murder mystery party game set during a Friendship Sock Hop in Fontaine City. This clean teen mystery is packed with rival greaser gangs, Pink Chicks, Black Widows, hot rods, diner hangouts, school rivalries, teenage rebellion, suspicious secrets, a fragile east-side and west-side truce, and murder on the dance floor.

Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

It is 1955, and Fontaine City has a serious problem with teenage street gangs. The east side belongs to the D-Birds, a hot-rod racing gang whose ladies belong to the Pink Chicks. These rebels attend Ryder High and spend their free time at Frosty’s Diner.

Across town, the Pit Viper motorcycle gang controls the west side, while their ladies rule as the Black Widows. These hooligans attend Tuscadero High School and frequent their favorite hangout, the Milkshake Shack. If either gang ventures onto the other’s turf, a white-knuckle rumble could break out and send the streets into chaos.

At Ryder High, the cheerleaders have created the Campus Crew, an organization dedicated to reducing criminal activity in Fontaine City. Believing the rival teens can resolve their differences, the group has organized a Friendship Sock Hop. To everyone’s surprise, every invited guest has submitted an RSVP. The Campus Crew has promised an evening of peace, harmony, new friendships, and a lasting truce between the east and west sides—but old rivalries may prove deadly. You have been invited, and this is where your story begins.

Host a Large Group Game:
  • Main Game: 16 unique suspect characters
    • Designed for 8–16 players.
    • Includes co-ed character roles.
    • Includes an evidence card and a 1950s Slang-ictionary.
    • Includes the optional Ryder High School Cheerleaders expandable team led by Patricia Grimlox.
    • Includes the optional Tuscadero High School Football Players expandable team led by Richie Fonzrelli.
  • Expansion Pack #1: 6 additional unique suspect characters
    • Characters #17–22.
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes 3 female and 3 male roles.
    • All 6 characters are optional and may be added in any combination.
    • Expands the game to 22 unique suspect characters.

All 22 suspect roles are unique characters. The two expandable teams use duplicate, non-suspect roles and may include up to 30 players each, allowing the complete game to accommodate up to 82 players.

Host Character List, Game Preview & Free Resources

This game is licensed for personal, private use only. If you plan to use it for any commercial purpose, public event, business, organization, school, fundraiser, church, promotional activity, paid event, or any use that generates revenue or provides a commercial benefit, you must purchase a Commercial License.

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Þorgerður
Great success

The party was a great success. It was however a bit confusing to pass info between gangs since they aren't supposed to speak to each other.

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Ann Osinga
1050's East Side Story

This mystery as well as other's I have purchased are well described and very well written. I'm never disappointed.

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Sarah Smith
Great for teens

Bought this for my daughter's 16th birthday party. Did the download option and it was simple. She invited 12 guests and everyone had a blast! Easy to follow instructions and good mystery. Teens loved their characters and really for into it. They are already asking for another murder mystery party!

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Anandy Germosen
Can’t say enough how much I love My Mystery Party Company

I love murder mystery parties but didn’t think I could ever throw one until I found this company. This is my second party and it just keeps getting better. It’s so affordable and you get everything you need and more. I went with the download version and it was so easy to follow and put together. My guest had a great time. EVERYONE got into it as soon as they opened the round 1 envelopes. This theme was so much fun. From the decor to the costumes.

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Spencer Sillanpaa
Lots of fun for the family

I planned on doing this as a surprise for my wife but ended up having to tell her about it because there are some things everyone needs to know before you play. We all got dressed up and had a great time. It took a few hours and we also had dinner. I will definitely do more of these in the future

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Anonymous
Everyone loved it!!!

This was my first time ever doing a murder mystery, let alone hosting one. I made it so I had a smaller group of adults on purpose because I was nervous on how this whole thing would turn out. My sister and I did it together and between us we were able to figure it out (we are not smart so anyone can easily host it lol) It was a blast, we had 1950s music playing in the background and we had a photo shoot after round 2! Everyone had said that this had exceeded their expectations by far!!! I would totally do more Murder Mysteries!

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Hannah J Collings
So much virtual fun!

Everyone had a fantastic time, over 20 people attending via a zoom call, using breakouts rooms. Terrible accents, hilarious fancy dress, so much laughter!

I self converted the download pack.
This does take a little bit of work to organise everything virtually, but for less work use less characters and have everyone else play as detectives.

The 1950s pack was great because everyone recognises the characters, (trying to keep things simple via zoom). I had 24 attending so using all 16 characters names to get people excited, but cut it to 10 characters who had a plot/lines to read out. This was the advice given by the website, more than 10 is too much to process. I agree that for this pack you could keep it to the 8 required. I just wanted the football captain and cheer captian so I could have expandable characters for the other guests.

As it was virtual and none of my friends had played before I acted as host only and read the solution so I knew what was going to happen, so I was focused on running things. I still still had lots of fun dropping into zoom calls and I also labelled myself as one of the characters mothers so it fix quite well :)

It was so successful we are going to do another next month!

One piece of advice , if you use expandable characters try and add questions for the main characters to ask the cheerleaders and footballers. The football team was of interest to no one (they didn't mind ) but you could easy ads a question or to for others to talk to them about.

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Michelle Lusk
So much fun!

We used this for a sweet 16 Birthday party! It was so much fun. The kids had a blast.

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Marion Redpath
Fun Night!

We purchased the 50's themed Murder Mystery for our snowbird resort. It was a fantastic evening of entertainment. The tips for decor, meal and event planning were excellent. Overall, it was straightforward and easy to organize.

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MMP's Biggest Fans
We LOVE My Mystery Party!!!

My young adult daughters hosted a party and played East Side Story. (They had previously hosted parties and played Ravenwood Masquerade Murder Mystery and Murder at the Grand Gatsby and Panic at the Disco since then.) Just like the two parties before and the party after, everyone had a great time! We started incorporating the bonus games and giving prizes to the best guy costume, best girl costume, first person to correctly guess whudunnit (first person who turns in their investigation sheet with the right answer), and best dance group to each member of the dance group for the bonus dance game. Adding that definitely took our murder mystery parties to the next level, which honestly, I didn't think was possible! I love hearing all the laughter. There haven't been any lulls in any of the parties so far. I recommend hosts use a mic when making announcements and guests use a mic when making accusations.

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Jen
14 year old birthday win

Everyone had so much fun. The pack made for a easy party, where everyone got involved. Even though not all the kids knew each other, by the end, they were so comfortable with each other. Highly recommend the mini rap game too.

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LibraryGirl
Wonderful

We are going to use this as a library program and partner with our local bar! We are super excited about it. We did the Luau Murder Mystery last year and it was a huge hit! We are offering this program in June and already have people asking about it!

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Vicki Stones
Great program for older adults

I used this program at a Retirement Community for an 80th birthday for my mom. It was "the social event of the year"! So much fun and everyone participated. We had 75 guests in attendance.