A stylized promotional graphic with the text 'Kidnapping at the Karlton Ritz' over a nighttime hotel exterior. The scene shows a lit building facade, a small reflecting pool, and three turtle statues placed in and around the water.
Tween mystery party game trailer
Promotional graphic for 'Kidnapping at the Karlton Ritz' party game, featuring a large white text box with customer reviews and a five-star rating, set against a background of a luxurious poolside patio with a turtle in the foreground.
A stylized promotional graphic with the text 'Kidnapping at the Karlton Ritz' over a nighttime hotel exterior. The scene shows a lit building facade, a small reflecting pool, and three turtle statues placed in and around the water.
Tween mystery party game trailer
Promotional graphic for 'Kidnapping at the Karlton Ritz' party game, featuring a large white text box with customer reviews and a five-star rating, set against a background of a luxurious poolside patio with a turtle in the foreground.
My Mystery Party

Karlton Ritz Kidnapping: Mystery Party Game

In stock
4.67 9 reviews
Available for download at checkout
$40.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU KARLTON
  • Age Range 10 to 14
  • Minimum # of Players 6 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 10 Suspects (All F)
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 20 Suspects (F/M)
  • Difficulty Rating Straightforward, 3/10
  • Roles All-Female (Main Game), Co-Ed Expansion Pack (4 M)
  • Interactive Extras Ransom notes (6), Fun Coded Message Group Challenge, Finale Graphic of the Victim (for a hunt) with a Message
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At the luxurious five-star Karlton-Ritz Hotel, where celebrities and other VIPs gather for a glamorous charity bash benefiting endangered New York bog turtles.
  • Game Format Kidnapping (Kid-Friendly) | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Tween Glam Fun * Chaotic Celeb Kidnapping
  • Publication Date 2006. Last Revised: 2018
Description Included Reviews

A lighthearted hotel-themed non-murder mystery party game created for tween sleuths. This glamorous charity-event mystery is packed with celebrities, entertainers, colorful professionals, red-carpet excitement, juicy gossip, suspicious secrets, ransom notes, hidden clues, lively party games, and the shocking disappearance of a famous fictional movie star.

Celebrity Kidnapping Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

The luxurious five-star Karlton-Ritz Hotel is preparing a glamorous charity bash to help protect New York’s endangered bog turtles. The city’s most fascinating personalities will walk the red carpet, enjoy delicious food, play entertaining games, trade juicy gossip, and raise money for the smallest turtles facing extinction in the Big Apple.

Excitement has soared because Robbie Pattenson, star of the enormously popular Enchanted Gnome movie series, may make a surprise appearance. Celebrities, entertainers, athletes, medical professionals, performers, and other important guests hope to meet the famous actor—but several people on the guest list are concealing suspicious secrets and questionable motives.

When the celebration becomes the scene of a kidnapping, the guests must inspect ransom notes, uncover hidden clues, question the suspects, and determine what happened to the missing movie star. Your invitation to the Karlton-Ritz charity bash has arrived, your red-carpet outfit is ready, and this is where your story begins.

Expand the Karlton-Ritz Tween Mystery Party:
  • Main Game: 10 unique female suspect characters
  • Expansion Pack: 10 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes 6 female and 4 male optional roles.
    • The expansion characters may be added in any number or combination.
    • Adding the 6 female expansion characters creates an all-female game with up to 16 unique suspects.
    • Using the complete expansion creates a co-ed game with 20 unique suspects.

All 20 available roles are unique suspect characters. This non-murder mystery does not use duplicate or expandable team roles.

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
  • 5 stars: 6 (67%)
  • 4 stars: 3 (33%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
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Amal
Birthday party

I purchased the downloaded version for my daughter’s 11th birthday party, it was great, her friends had a lot of fun. This was our 2nd birthday mystery party. however, I think the Oster Mystery was better. This year will will host another mystery, most likely a “murder” mystery birthday party. I highly recommend using my mystery party.

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Siruj
Great fun for 12 year old birthday sleepover

I admit it was overwhelming at first putting it together but it all came together at party-time. The timeline of events was very helpful. We had 6 girls participate and they had a blast! It was fun watching the whole things unfold.

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Danielle Goldman
Perfect Mystery for 11 year old birthday!

The entire process was so easy - they show parents exactly how to host and move the party along. Even our shy guests got really into it. We printed out character bios, added a few things into it, and hand delivered it to our guests the week before the party. Easy to social distance during this event. It took our party 2.5 hours with one break for dinner. Only one issue - some of the colored pages with clues only printed giant black squares, but this was remedied if we re-printed in black and white.

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Carolyn Homberger
Awesome for a 5th Grade Birthday Party

I hosted this party with fourteen 5th graders and they absolutely LOVED it! I was able to host the party completely outdoors (we live in Florida) and hid the clues in different outdoor places. I had to improvise by putting things 'near' the bathroom vs. 'in' the bathroom, but it worked out great. Additionally, with so many kids - I was able to really move things along as they worked together. I would definitely host another party again and highly recommend this party in particular!

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Jessica Smasal
So much fun, so easy!

Did this party for my 12 yo daughter plus 5 of her friends. It was so easy to put together, everything in the kit was clear and in order. The girls had fun being in character and trying to piece the clues together. It was a successful party, I would definitely do one again. Loved it!

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Dana
Super fun!

My 9 year old had a blast doing this with her friends. It was well organized but still flexible enough to add your own ideas.

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Farrah
Fun Party Idea for our Girl Scout Troop

This kit was amazing!!! It was so easy to plan out and make it come to life. The troop had a blast. It was just as exciting for the girls mom as it was for the girls to participate. We started out with some of the games and they were a hit. Each girl really got into character and we were all excited to solve the mystery.

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Anonymous
Very fun party for my 11 year old daughter!

This kit was great! Everything you need was there including games, menu ideas and of course detailed instructions about how to play the game. It took me about 2 hours to prep including reading, figuring out instructions, cutting and assembly clues, codes, etc. The 7 girls at our party were fully engaged for about 3 hours! At the end they wanted to play some of the games again which took another hour! Fabulous entertainment and they all said it was so much fun!

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Georgia Evans
So much fun!

My friends and I had so much fun with this game! We are all theater people so this is exactly the kind of party for us. I would recommend this for anyone between the ages of 10 and 16 who likes the idea of a murder mystery but doesn't necessarily want anyone did be a "victim". The characters are a lot of fun, and it's really interesting to see it unfold especially if you don't know the outcome. I loved it so much I'm doing the Ravenwood Mystery this year!