Murder in the Escape Room: Murder Mystery Party Game | Boxed Kit

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Printed DIY Escape Room Materials
Product details
  • Type Boxed Kit
  • SKU ESCAPEPRP-10-NOESC
  • Age Range 15 to Adult
  • Minimum # of players 6 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 10 Suspects (Kit A)
  • Max # of players available 16 Suspects (Kit B)
  • Difficulty Level Moderate, 6/10
  • Roles Flex-Gender
  • Game duration 2 to 4 Hours Average (Flexible Timeline)
  • Setting At a leased vacation home, Noxhelm’s Crossing’s most scandalous residents are invited to an escape room party by a mystery host.
  • Interactive extras DIY Escape Room (required)*Access to instructive website
  • Vibe & Content Notes Escape Room Urgency * Mystery Host * Friendly Beefs Afoot

An exciting escape-room murder mystery party game. Your group will be whisked away to a mysterious vacation home for an interactive night filled with puzzles, riddles, cryptic codes, suspicious behavior, hidden motives, and murder!

Important: The host must design and arrange a DIY escape room at the party location as part of this game. Your purchase includes access to a detailed instructional website with printable ideas, setup guidance, and options ranging from budget-friendly designs to more elaborate scenarios. Because every party location is different, the host must customize the escape room for the available space and allow additional time for planning and setup.

Professionally printed escape-room materials may be added to the boxed kit as an optional upgrade.  See below.

Kit Sizes & Pre-Game Resources:

Scroll below this section to preview or download the Sample Game, Host Character Lists, and free invitations for each kit size.

The Sample Game contains carefully selected excerpts from the game, including plotlines, clue card formatting, the event timeline, and other materials. It allows you to evaluate the game’s format and quality before purchasing without revealing the solution.

Kit A: 6–10 Players (10 Suspect Roles)

Kit B: 6–16 Players (16 Suspect Roles)

Both kit sizes contain unique, flexible-gender suspect roles. This game does not include duplicate team characters or expandable teams.

How the Kit Sizes Relate to the Downloadable Version:

  • 10 players: Main game only
  • 16 players: Main game plus the 6-character Expansion Pack

Important Escape-Room Information:

This game combines a traditional mingling murder mystery with a required DIY escape-room segment. The escape room provides clues about the mysterious host before the murder occurs and the central investigation begins.

Your purchase includes access to an instructional website with many ideas for creating an escape room using printable materials and common household items. You may keep the setup relatively simple or create a more elaborate experience. There are economy/simple scenarios to build a cheap & easy escape room, but also, there are more complicated/luxury options given on this website that are more elaborate and may require the purchase of lock boxes or other items. 

The options above also offer an optional add-on containing professionally printed materials for the escape-room portion. These will include 7 pages of instructions for how to set up your easy-design escape room, as well as: printed cipher wheel (two printed & cut out wheels) in separate envelopes and one of the mystery host clues changed to a code, a printed QR code and password in separate envelopes, stickers for a Yin Yang scenario, printed foot sheet for 'within reach' scenario,  2 printed crossword puzzle sheets, and 2 printed sheets for a superimposed message.

Without this add-on, the host will prepare their own escape-room materials using the instructions on the webpage that you will obtain access to. 

This game requires more advanced planning and room preparation than a standard murder mystery party. Choose this theme only if you have time to design and arrange the escape-room portion before the event.

Murder in the Escape Room Mystery Game Synopsis:

You received a mysterious invitation to an escape room party. The party address is a leased vacation home, so the host could be anyone in the fog-covered town of Noxhelm’s Crossing. You have no idea who invited you, but you are familiar with everyone on the guest list. The invitation says you will work as a team to escape the room before time runs out. You’ve always wanted to challenge yourself by solving a timed mystery in a room filled with puzzles, riddles, and codes.

You are intrigued by the host’s choice of guests, as these are the most ambitious yet scandalous people in town. Putting this combination of powerful personalities into an intense scenario may have deadly consequences. Nevertheless, you’ve always considered yourself a daring person who loves a challenge. You have decided to attend this adventure.

This is where your story begins.

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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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