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Other Great Mystery Games

MURDER MYSTERY PARTY - HONKY TONK HOMICIDE

Honky Tonk Homicide is a Texas-style murder mystery dinner game!  It's "last call" for someone at Bubba's Bar in Cactus, Texas.  A nasty murder investigation sure can disrupt Karaoke Night, especially when everyone in town has a motive.  The regulars at Bubba's Bar and the residents of the Cactus Court Trailer Park must find the murderer among them.  For a small Texas town, Cactus has plenty of dirty secrets, double lives, torrid affairs and alien abductions!  This is a one-of-a-kind party your friends won't forget!

Contents of Honky Tonk Homicide:
Party Planner with Recipes, Menu and Decorating Tips
8 Party Invitations and Envelopes
Police Report and Crime Scene Diagram
Character Booklets for All Suspects
8 Name Tags
8 Secret Clues
Compact Disk with Bonus Game
MURDER MYSTERY PARTY - TIL DEATH DO US PART

With Til Death Do Us Part, you can treat your friends to a Caribbean-inspired evening of fun, food, and murder!  Grand Cayman's high society is gathered at the Wedding Bells Reception Hall to celebrate the whirlwind marriage of the most eligible bachelor on the island.  Millionaire playboy, Blaine Barnacle is a member of one of Cayman's most prominent families.  His mysterious fiancee, Bitsy Fleecer has a shady past and plenty of secrets.  When a body is discovered in the wine cellar, can the wedding guests work together to expose the killer before police and tabloid reporters arrive?  There are so many suspects and so many motives, that it will take a super-sleuth to solve this mystery!

Contents of Murder Mystery Party - Til Death Do Us Part:
10 party invitations and envelopes
Party planning booklet
10 players playbooks with background info
11 secret clues
10 player nametags
MYSTERY OF THE ABBEY

Mystery of the Abbey is a new kind of "whodunit" game of deduction and intuition, set in a medieval abbey!  Players compete and collaborate to solve the mystery by moving through the Abbey's beautifully rendered board and questioning their brethren.  Constant interactivity between the players, intelligent questioning and dynamic intrigue make Mystery of the Abbey the game of choice for an hour of fun with friends and family alike!

Contents of Mystery of the Abbey:
Gameboard
6 cast stone resin monk miniatures
6 deduction notebooks
1 tin bell
50 suspect sheets
90 illustrated cards
3 wooden monk dice
Instructions
1 Days of Wonder web card

SCOTLAND YARD

An international super-spy, so secretive that he is only known as Mr. X, is detected in London, and Scotland Yard is on the hunt. In the game Scotland Yard, one player takes the role of Mr. X and the others take the roles of the detectives on the chase. Mr. X leaves small clues to his whereabouts as he moves by bus, taxi, or underground. To deaden his trail, Mr. X can take advantage of his limited supply of "black tickets" and move in secret. The vigilant members of Scotland Yard must deduce the location of Mr. X by his mode of transportation and occasional sightings before he can escape the city.

Contents of Scotland Yard:
1 game board6 game pieces18 start pieces125 tickets (54 taxi, 43 bus, 23 underground and 5 black tickets)2 double move piece (2x)1 log book with paper as inlay1 "eye screen"
SHERLOCK CARD GAME

The Sherlock Card Game is the game where memory and deduction are "elementary"!  At the beginning of the game, each player tries to remember each of the eight items in the circle before they are turned facedown.  Next, Sherlock begins to travel from one card to another.  Every time Sherlock stops at a facedown card, the player has to remember what object is on that card.  Sherlock continues to move, as long as the player guesses correctly.  If Sherlock travels to a previously revealed card, then the player gets to keep that card.  The first player to collect six cards is the winner!  The Sherlock card game was nominated for "Children's Game of the Year" (Kinderspiel des Jahres) in 2003.

Contents of the Sherlock Card Game:
50 playing cards
Instructions
SLEUTH

Sleuth is the highly rated classic game of deduction by Sid Sackson.  When a valuable piece of jewelry is found missing, will you be able to discover the identity of the missing gem?  Through strategic questioning, you gather bits of information and skillfully weld them together to form the clues which will provide the solution to the mystery.  Clever questioning and skillful deductions, combined with some good old-fashioned luck make Sleuth an absorbing game.
Contents of Sleuth:
36 card full size Jewel deck
54 card small Search card deck

TEEN MURDER MYSTERY PARTY - PANIC AT THE PROM

In Panic at the Prom, everyone is ready to experience a magical night as Centerville High School celebrates Senior Prom "Under the Sea." All eyes are on the two most popular and beautiful students, Katelyn and Dylan, as they are crowned King and Queen of the Prom. But during the spotlight dance, the emergency sprinkler system soaks the entire student body. Who had the motive and the opportunity to sabotage the evening? Everyone has a secret to hide, and it's up to you to question the suspects and determine who caused the Panic at the Prom! 

Contents of Panic at the Prom:
Party Planner with Recipes, Menu and Decorating Tips
8 Party Invitations and Envelopes
Principal's Address and Crime Scene Diagram
Character Booklets for All Suspects
8 Name Tags
8  Secret Clues
THREE OF A CRIME

Winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award, Three Of A Crime makes for a great Whodunit game!  One player starts the round as the eyewitness while the rest play as the detectives. (Note: there are two variations for two player games included in the instructions). Each card contains a trio of suspects and the detectives must  ask questions, applying deductive reasoning and logic, in an attempt to correctly solve the case. The witness then places a token down indicating how many suspects he/she guessed correct. Each person takes turn as the eyewitness and the first player to compile three suspect cards is the winner!

Contents of Three of a Crime: 
35 Suspect Cards
20 Numbered Tokens (seven zeros, eight ones, and five twos)
 
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