Who Slayed Santa: Christmas Murder Mystery Party Game

The characters are fun. And premise is entertaining. I always tweak the format a bit because it suits our group better. I do an introductory round where we go around and each person introduces him/her self to group with a prewritten line or two. This will be our group’s 4th murder mystery and a party that everyone looks forward to. (We actually won’t be doing this party until Jan 2022…the house will still be decorated from Christmas). Also I have found that it is easier if my husband and I don’t take an official role. For this one I will be Noel and he will be the bartender.

We had a blast with this mystery! Only thing I could say negative was the instructions were unclear at times on the order of events. Made hosting a little difficult. Other than having to wing a couple times it was awesome!
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FROM MY MYSTERY PARTY STAFF:
We hate to hear the instructions were not clear. We'll be contacting you for more details. We are glad you had a blast! Thank you for your feedback!

Highly recommended distraction in this (covid) time of reduced sized gatherings. Boosted everyone's spirits, even a week.in advance thanks to pre-game tasks, costume and menu suggestions

I ordered this for a company Christmas party and it was a hit. The only reason I am giving this a 4 star is for this reason: I think you should have a blank line where it tells you to hide the victim sign & murder weapon so that people have the option to decide where to hide it and so that the victim knows where to grab it as well. Our office has bathrooms (like the instruction) but our bathrooms are not co-ed and with having both males and females playing this game with trying to keep everything a surprise, it was hard to place the objects. Other than that, the game itself was very organized and everyone had fun!

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From My Mystery Party Staff:
We truly appreciate your feedback! Glad you enjoyed yourself at the party! We're always here via email/phone to give you options when you meet a stumbling block such as having co-ed restrooms. We've come across company parties with co-ed bathrooms and have seen that making a simple announcement at the start of round two for the victim to contact one of the hosts to find out where the kit will be is a quick and easy fix. And, the host can play without knowing the victim until round two.

Loved playing this game! Certainly one I would recommend, but would also recommend people really get into the detective element, it was definately for serious people!

I played this with some friends, and we did enjoy it but there were some hic-cups in running the game in terms of the order of running a few things and the mingling in round one felt quite chaotic. Admittedly, this was organised within a week so my co-host and I didn't have too much preparation time but we managed to make it work.

Pros:
- 8 required characters, with a total of 25 and the ability to easily assign the 8 required characters for different genders.
- Printable pack so doesn't matter which part of the world you are in and easy to put together

Cons
- When discussing afterwards with the answer sheet, we discovered information about character that the people play the characters themselves did know....
- The fingerprint analysis section is a bit strange to play out as it's coming from detective Holly Berry but no one was playing that character. Luckily a friend who couldn't stay long and stepped in to play this character.
- The round instructions are limited which makes the interactions a little short and as we are told to not fabricate anything it makes it difficult to get creative.

We used this party pack to host our office Christmas party and it went FABULOUS. Everyone had a blast, and everything we needed was included to make it go smoothly. Highly highly recommend.

The game is great and there are a lot of parts. I don't know how you could adjust the instructions but it was a little confusing on how the host is to direct the game. I purchased 2 expansions so I have 35 people. Quite tough putting all the information in order along with making sure the story flows and makes sense.

Our group laughed the whole night. Thanks for making such a fun game!

My guests seemed to like the mystery, but I did not put in enough prep time. If we do it again, I will allow more time to prepare.

The last time I played I was the murderer, this was a great choice for my work do. I would recommend this one to anyone.

I had a Christmas in July party with the Who Slayed Santa murder mystery theme. SOOO much fun! All the instructions were thorough and easy to follow. The characters were interesting and fun and the story line was easy to follow. Also loved the bonus games included. We even had my 85 year old grandma up and doing the elf and reindeer dance challenge! Recommend MyMysteryParty to everyone! I am planning on buying a scavenger hunt from this site as well to do at our annual family campout! Fun for all ages!!

This game was a hit! Will be back for another very soon - my friends are dying to play again.

Great time! Great game! Great party overall. Couldn't be happier!
Thank you to this company - will not go anywhere else.
Thought the kit was easy to assemble, it had enough character roles for us and everyone felt included since they had someone to play during the game.
Great ending!

It's fun. We played all bonus games and the party took about 4 hours. Love that there were two mysteries, and everybody had a great time!

Great party, great fun. will be hosting another game soon! Love the service (spot on and quick), the host instructions were easy, and kit was relatively quick to set up. Next time though I will do the boxed one - it is probably worth the difference in price.

Thank you to this company for putting on great mysteries