Costume ball at the Walgrave Astoria mystery party game.
Costume ball murder mystery party game trailer video
A 5 star review for the Walgrave Astoria Costume Ball murder mystery party game for Halloween
Costume ball at the Walgrave Astoria mystery party game.
Costume ball murder mystery party game trailer video
A 5 star review for the Walgrave Astoria Costume Ball murder mystery party game for Halloween
My Mystery Party

Walgrave Costume Ball: Murder Mystery Party Game

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4.4 10 reviews
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$52.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU WALGRAVE
  • Age Range 14 to Adult
  • Minimum # of Players 8 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 40: 20 Suspects and 1 up to 20-Suspect Optional Team (non-suspect, duplicate roles)
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 174: 24 Suspects, Up to 150 Team Roles (5 Teams)
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 5/10
  • Roles Co-Ed, All-Female with required players and 5 M (Optional)
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At the legendary Walgrave Astoria Hotel, where the town’s elite gather in elaborate costumes for its glamorous annual Costume Ball.
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Eccentric Characters in Costumes * Playful Scandals *Lighthearted, Glitzy Fun
  • Publication Date 2007. Last Revised: 2024
Description Included Reviews

A glamorous costume-ball murder mystery party game set inside one of the world’s most luxurious hotels. This high-society mystery is packed with extravagant disguises, celebrities, elite guests, influential socialites, suspicious behavior, guarded secrets, clashing personalities, scandal, intrigue, and murder.

Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

The annual Walgrave Astoria Costume Ball is once again approaching, stirring a whirlwind of anticipation among the town’s elite. Guests are carefully planning their most extravagant disguises for an exclusive evening filled with sophisticated pageantry, influential personalities, and dazzling costumes.

Established in 1907, the Walgrave Astoria has become internationally renowned for luxury, opulence, and exclusivity. The prestigious hotel has welcomed royalty, presidents, ambassadors, theatrical luminaries, celebrities, and prominent members of high society through its grand entrance.

This year, rumors suggest that Nicole Wilton, Toyoka, and Zangelina Holie may be among the VIPs attending the ball. Their possible appearance has added even more excitement to an already glamorous affair, and everyone is eager to see which famous faces will emerge from behind the evening’s mysterious disguises.

Securing a ticket to this exclusive event was no small accomplishment. Now, you must select a costume worthy of the magnificent surroundings and prepare to mingle with the most influential guests in town. An unforgettable evening of elegance, intrigue, and danger awaits you. This is where your story begins.

Host a Large Group Game:
  • Main Game: 20 unique suspect characters
    • 8 characters are required, and 12 are optional.
    • The game may be played with a co-ed group.
    • The required characters are compatible with an all-female group (skipping optional males).
    • The main game includes 5 optional male roles that may be omitted when hosting an all-female game.
    • There is one expandable team of Jamie Bond's Colleagues
  • Expansion Pack #1: 4 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • All 4 characters are optional.
    • Each expansion character leads an optional expandable team.
    • Expandable Teams Included with Expansion Pack #1:
      • Gloria Garcia’s assistants
      • Patricia Praper’s assistants
      • Binko Bonko’s clown colleagues
      • Donnie Jepp’s entourage

All 24 suspect roles are unique characters. The five expandable teams use duplicate, non-suspect roles and may include up to 30 players each, allowing the complete game to accommodate up to 174 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
  • 5 stars: 4 (40%)
  • 4 stars: 6 (60%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
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Rebecca
Great game

I played this party pack at my 30th birthday party and it was a huge hit! Everyone had such a fun time and none of us had ever played a murder mystery before. The set up was fun and easy to follow. It set up us for an evening of fun and murder! It was the perfect birthday party event!

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A Mom
We had a ball!

The kids (ages 14-19) had a blast! They got to wear whatever costumes they wanted since it was just a costume ball. There were enough characters that we had wiggle room for those last minute people who joined up. They laughed hard, sleuthed harder, and had a great time. .Thank you!!

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Holly Shaw
Teen Halloween party

This was a super fun way for all my son’s friends to get together and hang out Halloween night. I’m so thankful that this pack could expand so far because we had a couple teens we invited that we were hoping would come and that made for a lot more kids than a lot of packs allow

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Susan Solo
Splendid Time

We did this for the ladies at my church! The second one we've done with this company, third in all. We had a GREAT time! We had all the main characters needed, plus one optional, and I also made up an additional character, a hotel clerk/detective. The hotel clerk took the ladies entry tickets to free me to do other things and to add to the "room" look, then she changed into detective clothes when we needed the detective. We even had a bell on the "counter." We had 23 "other" guests, ladies of the church who came to try and solve the mystery. We transformed our smaller hall into a hotel lobby with couches, cushioned chairs, etc. Our food was appetizers and drinks were sparking cider, 7-up, and Vernors - bubbly type of drinks in plastic champaign glasses to add to the glamour of the early 1900s. Everyone wants to know when we'll do this again!

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Kylie
Awesome night for the whole family

We were away for the weekend with 4 families. 8 kids 10-17yrs plus 6 adults. It was very last minute, we bought the kit online the night prior to the party and handed out the characters the morning of. The kids were so excited, practicing their characters during the day before we started. It was so much fun and was talked about for days. We peeked at the round 1 clues and picked an easy character for the 10year old and she really surprised us, she didn’t need any help and got right into it. Great fun for the whole family.

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The Woodshed
Such a fun night

This was our first time hosting a mystery party so we weren't sure how it would go. It was the first time for most of our guests to be involved in something like this also. There were a couple of hiccups, but we just rolled with it, we had 22 people in attendance and everyone had a great time. The host directions were very clear and easy to understand. With the feedback from our guests we will now be making this an annual affair, can't wait to find out which one of our friends is murdered next!

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Alisa
Halloween Murder Mystery at Walgrave Astoria

The download files offer simplicity to planning your party. Looking forward to the experience.

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Anonymous
Really Fun!

I was worried not everyone would play along, but they really did! Everyone got into character and had fun making accusations. Now we have to throw a mystery party every year!

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Sandra Rossouw
Great fun was had by all

My daughter and 13of her friends enjoyed the game very much. Tiring for the mum though.

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FF
So much fun!!

This was the first Murder Mystery party I have planned , it Was very easy orchestrate the party with the PDF instructions provided. The characters were so much fun and everyone had a great night!!
When it was time for the victim to die it was a little confusing , with the north, south directions and no one knew to turn out the lights until after the victim died in front of everyone, then people moved in the dark, but it was just a little hiccup and the game was still great fun!!
I would definitely purchase again!

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From MMP Staff:
The lights on/off is just in the story - there was no need to recreate anything involving the crime (that's why we don't tell you to do it in the host instructions) - but we're glad you had fun! Can't wait for you to try another game!