Tacky Sweater Shindig: Murder Mystery Party Game

Available for download at checkout
Regular price $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

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