Homicide at the Tacky Sweater Shindig Christmas mystery party game.
Tacky Sweater Shindig Game Trailer
Promotional graphic for the 'Homicide at the Tacky Sweater Shindig' mystery party game, featuring a festive blue snowflake background, a review from Cara Gunderson, and a green and white knit sweater graphic.
Homicide at the Tacky Sweater Shindig Christmas mystery party game.
Tacky Sweater Shindig Game Trailer
Promotional graphic for the 'Homicide at the Tacky Sweater Shindig' mystery party game, featuring a festive blue snowflake background, a review from Cara Gunderson, and a green and white knit sweater graphic.
My Mystery Party

Tacky Sweater Shindig: Murder Mystery Party Game

In stock
5.0 9 reviews
Available for download at checkout
$43.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU TACKYSWT
  • Age Range 13 to Adult
  • Minimum # of Players 8 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 12 Suspects and 1 (Optional) Team Led by Optional Male Character
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 135: 45 Suspects, Up to 90 Team Roles (3 Teams)
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 5/10
  • Roles Co-Ed or *All-Female (*By skipping optional Males & Optional Team - see Host Character List)
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting Set in festive Holly Hills, the Tacky Sweater Shindig at Snowflake Manor promises holiday cheer, quirky drama, and a dash of mischievous mystery.
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Clean Small-Town Holiday Chaos | Glittery Gossip, and Good Cheer | Cozy Christmas Mischief
  • Publication Date 2013. Last Revised: 2021
Description Included Reviews

A festive Christmas murder mystery party game set at the annual Tacky Sweater Shindig. This cozy holiday mystery is packed with outrageously tacky sweaters, competitive Christmas personalities, small-town gossip, department-store drama, old grudges, suspicious motives, festive challenges, and homicide inside the Silver Bells Ballroom at Snowflake Manor.

Christmas Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

The citizens of Holly Hills are preparing for the annual Tacky Sweater Shindig inside the spectacular Silver Bells Ballroom at Snowflake Manor. The town’s most colorful personalities will arrive dressed in their most outrageously festive sweaters for an evening filled with delicious food, entertaining activities, holiday cheer, and enough gossip to keep Sugarplum Point buzzing well into the new year.

Unfortunately, several invited guests share old grudges, competitive rivalries, suspicious histories, and carefully guarded secrets. Rumors of revenge have circulated throughout Holly Hills, but Snowflake Manor's management insists everyone will be perfectly safe and that no drama will be tolerated during the celebration.

You have received an invitation to the Tacky Sweater Shindig, your most gloriously hideous holiday sweater is ready, and this is where your story begins.

Host a Large Group Game:
  • Main Game: 12 unique suspect characters
    • Clark Griswall may lead an optional Griswall Family team of duplicate, non-suspect players.
  • Expansion Pack #1: 12 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes an optional department-store elf team led by Hermey Garland.
  • Expansion Pack #2: 12 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes an optional elf team led by George Bailey.
    • Designed to be added after Expansion Pack #1.
  • Expansion Pack #3: 9 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Designed to be added after Expansion Packs #1 and #2.

All 45 suspect roles are unique characters. With the optional duplicate, non-suspect family and elf-team roles, the complete game can accommodate up to 135 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.

Purchase Commercial License
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Cara Gunderson
Great time!

Homicide at the tacky sweater shindig was a great murder mystery game for the Christmas holidays! Great time had by all! Highly recommend!!

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Naomi Poepjes
Fantastic Fun!!

I purchased this for a Christmas staff party. I was a little nervous that we would not all get into the spirit of things, but I needn't have worried. WE LOVED IT!! Everyone was straight into it, and it was a great way for us to get out of our shells and interact with one another. I cannot thank you enough - everything was super easy to put together and it ran so well. THANK YOU!

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Anonymous
Fun game for the holidays with family

We did this murder mystery with our family and friends on Christmas Eve and it was a hit! It got people to loosen up and get to know each other as well as have a great time! Would definitely recommend

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Farrah
Family Christmas

I did this for a our large family Christmas party. It was great and so much fun. This was my first murder mystery party. I was nervous, but the instructions was excellent and helped me plan. I will definitely being doing this again next year. The only thing I would do different is pay the extra for the party pack instead of doing digital.

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Anonymous
Great time and easy to set up

I was pretty apprehensive about hosting a murder mystery party for my daughter's 16th birthday but it was what she wanted. I cannot tell you how pleasantly surprised I was with this kit. It was easy to follow, has step by step instructions for set up and gave nothing away so I could enjoy the game as well. The storyline was great and everyone had a wonderful time. Well worth it.

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Angela
Great time and easy to set up

I was pretty apprehensive about hosting a murder mystery party for my daughter's 16th birthday but it was what she wanted. I cannot tell you how pleasantly surprised I was with this kit. It was easy to follow, has step by step instructions for set up and gave nothing away so I could enjoy the game as well. The storyline was great and everyone had a wonderful time. Well worth it.

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Anonymous, please ;-)
Merry Christmas to my party!

We had a fun time! This was a great game with fun characters and a fun story.

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Tina
Fabulous Fun, Great Characters

The My Mystery Party games have extremely well written characters. The clues are fun and easy to work with. We had a fabulous event and laughed all night.

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Anonymous
So fun!

We had a great time with this murder mystery! The characters were a lot of fun, the story lines were fun, and the mystery was tricky, but not too hard we didn't someone solve it. We also loved the optional party games that were included! You will want to have your video recorder handy to capture the fun! We didn't use all of the recipes that were included, but the ones we did were awesome! Overall it was a great experience!