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.
- Type Download
- SKU ESCAPE
- Age Range 15 to Adult
- Minimum # of Players 6 Suspects
- Max Players (Main Game) 10 Suspects
- Max # Available (Sold Separately) 16 Suspects
- Difficulty Rating Moderate, 6/10
- Roles Flex-gender
- Interactive Extras DIY Escape Room (required) * Access to instructive website
- Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
- Setting At a leased vacation home, Noxhelm’s Crossing’s most scandalous residents are invited to an escape room party by a mystery host.
- Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
- Vibe & Content Notes Escape Room Urgency * Mystery Host * Friendly Beefs Afoot
- Publication Date 2007. Last Revised: 2021
An exciting escape-room murder mystery party game set inside a leased vacation home on the outskirts of fog-covered Noxhelm’s Crossing. This suspenseful mystery combines traditional clue mingling with a required DIY escape room packed with puzzles, riddles, cryptic codes, hidden clues, ambitious personalities, scandalous histories, psychological tension, and a deadly investigation.
Important: The host must design and arrange a DIY escape room as part of this game. Your purchase includes access to a detailed instructional website with printable ideas and guidance, but additional planning and setup time are required.
Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:
You have received a mysterious invitation to an escape room party. The address belongs to a leased vacation home on the outskirts of fog-covered Noxhelm’s Crossing, so the identity of the host remains unknown. You recognize everyone on the guest list, but you have no idea who brought this ambitious and scandalous group together.
According to the invitation, the guests must work as a team to escape before time runs out. You have always wanted to challenge yourself inside a room filled with puzzles, riddles, hidden clues, and cryptic codes. However, placing so many powerful personalities together in an intense and confined situation could have deadly consequences.
Nevertheless, you have never been one to turn down a thrilling challenge. You have accepted the invitation—and this is where your story begins.
Expand the Murder Mystery Party Game:
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Main Game: 10 unique suspect characters
- Combines traditional clue mingling with a required DIY escape room.
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Expansion Pack #1: 6 additional unique suspect characters
- Sold separately.
- Includes 6 optional, gender-flexible roles.
- The expansion characters may be added in any combination.
- You do not need to use every optional main-game character before adding expansion roles.
All 16 suspect roles are unique characters. This game does not include duplicate expandable team roles.
Important: The DIY escape room is a required part of the storyline. The download includes access to an instructional website, but the host must select, prepare, and arrange the escape room puzzles and clues before the party.
This game uses a victim announcement page instead of a victim sign or victim envelope.
This is the instant download version of the game. Simply download, print, and prepare everything you need to play, with no shipping fees or delivery wait.
PDF files included:
- Host Instructions
- Printable Game Materials
- Solution
- Optional Extras, such as the free invitation
For the boxed kit, also called the Party Pack, use the link provided on the product page.
Printing Tips
For the best results, open and print the files using Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.com. Other PDF viewers may alter fonts, spacing, colors, page sizing, or interactive features.
- Download the PDF files to your computer and note where you save them before opening or printing.
- Select Actual Size or 100% Scale unless the instructions specify otherwise.
- Do not select Fit to Page, as this may resize cards, labels, or other game materials.
- Confirm that the paper size is set to US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches.
- Print one test page before printing the complete game.
- Use standard printer paper for any worksheets or investigation sheets.
- Use heavier paper for invitations, clue cards, and other materials that will be handled during the game.
- Print in color when possible for the intended appearance.
- Do not select double-sided printing.
- Allow ink to dry completely before cutting, folding, or assembling the materials.
Printer settings and results may vary by printer.
This was my third time hosting a mystery party, and it was definitely the most work, but well worth the extra effort. I held it for 13 people (used the expansion pack), so it was a larger group. Because of the bigger group I had to make the escape room puzzles with varying degrees of difficulty, but it was a huge success! You need a lot of extra time and attention to detail to plan it, so wait to do this one until you have a couple of easier parties under your belt first. Overall, it was great!
My daughter and her friends have done several murder mysteries from My Mystery Party. They are lots of fun and easy to host. When we picked the Escape Room, I assumed it would again require minimal planning. However, the escape room portion is not scripted and requires quite a bit more work. It was fun and added a nice twist but it definitely takes more planning and set up (we spent several hours planning and setting up the escape room). The murder mystery portion is shortened a bit since you have the added escape room portion. All in all - very fun but a lot more work to host!
This was so fun. It was better than any other we have played. The escape room added such a great excitement. It was not hard at all to set up. I wish they had more of these!!
I had a blast deciding on the escape room puzzles!
The escape room was fun but the murder mystery part seemed short, if we didn’t have the escape room we would’ve finished in about 15 minutes.