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 players available 16 Suspects (Expansion Pack Sold Separately)
- Difficulty rating Moderate, 6/10
- Character roles Flex-gender
- Interactive Extras DIY Escape Room (required)*Access to instructive website
- Game Duration 2 to 4 Hours Average (Flexible Timeline)
- Game format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
- Vibe and Content Notes Escape Room Urgency * Mystery Host * Friendly Beefs Afoot
- Date of publication 2007. Last Revised: 2021
An exciting escape-room murder mystery party game. This suspenseful mystery combines traditional clue mingling with a required DIY escape room filled with puzzles, riddles, codes, hidden clues, scandalous guests, psychological tension, and a murder 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.
This is the instant download version, so there is nothing to ship and no shipping fee. Simply download, print, prepare, create your escape room, and play!
Prefer a professionally prepared game? Choose the Boxed Kit version, and our staff will professionally print and prepare the murder mystery materials for you. The escape room setup is still created by the host unless the optional printed escape room materials are selected with the boxed kit.
Helpful Links:
Players can get started before the party with costume suggestions, character information, the game trailer, the mystery premise, and more.
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Expansion Pack: Adds 6 Characters
Sold separately.
Murder Mystery Party 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 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.
Expand the Murder Mystery Party Game:
- Main Game: 10 unique suspect characters
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Expansion Pack: 6 additional suspect characters
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- Sold separately.
- Includes 6 optional, gender-flexible roles.
- The roles may be added in any combination.
- You do not need to use every optional main-game character before adding expansion roles.
- Expands the game to 16 unique suspects.
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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.
