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mystery games are played.- Click here for our murder mystery themes, prime suspect descriptions and free script samples to download. Note: All our mysteries can be edited and adapted to suit your needs. Just be sure to maintain motives for the prime suspects.
- What’s included with our murder mystery dinner games
- Watch one of our murder mysteries dinners in action
- Number of players/participants, length of the mystery game, pre-event prep time
- Example time line for your murder mystery dinner party
- Helpful advice and tips for your mystery party
- Recipes and web sites to help you plan your dinner menu
- Costume, props and historical links page
- What are the benefits of using a murder mystery game as a corporate team bonding experience?
- Are these murder mystery dinner party games appropriate for children and/or church groups?
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HOW OUR MURDER MYSTERY DINNER GAMES WORK
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ
- ALL our murder mystery games are for large groups (20 to about 125 or so). They will NOT work for just 6-8 people like the boxed games.
- Depending on which mystery game you select, you'll
need to provide 6-8 people to play the primary suspects. The
rest of your guests will take on the role of detective and it will
be their "job"
to actively solve the case by examining evidence, finding clues,
following and questioning suspects - whatever it takes for them
to solve the mystery. Our invitation encourages them to come in costume and in character. They have the freedom to do so or just come as themselves to enjoy the mystery. No pressure to take a role or do something that takes them out of their comfort zone. Essentially,
EVERYONE will have a crucial, interactive part in the mystery game. No one will be bored or feel left out. Take a look at our little movie to
see what we mean. - Our mystery game kits provide you with 2 versions of the mystery:
- The Know It All Version: The prime suspects get the script/sequence of actions ahead of time and will know whodunit. Your suspects won't have to memorize a lot of dialogue but they will have to be familiar with a sequence of events/actions. They'll have to carry out suspicious activities to set themselves up as suspects and make sure their guests know some key facts. This format will allow them to better play off the guests and get them actively participating in the mystery.
- The Narrator Version: You'll add a narrator to narrate the mystery (tell the story) while the prime suspects act out what the narrator is saying. The suspects will not need to know whodunit in this version. They'll only get their character descriptions and some set up information ahead of time.
In the CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING VERSIONS of these games, the
participants will be divided into teams (usually each table
represents a team) & will receive instructions for solving
the case as a team. They’ll be assigned team roles
and, to incorporate multi-tasking, they’ll be asked
to complete a project (included with kit) while working together to solve the
case. The other teams will judge that presentation. Each
team’s speaker will present their findings at the conclusion
of the mystery. 
Here are our current mystery game themes. Click on any link to get more information:
• A
Deadly Incentive: Seamus O'Malley
hires a public relations firm to help him put his cherished yet failing
pub back in the black.
•
Bordello
Of The Damned:Y’all
are invited to Miss Iggy’s, the best little whorehouse in Deadwood - or shall we say the deadliest?
• Diary
Of A Burning Woman: Ebenezer Pennypincher is visited by a ghost
who has a story to tell and a mystery to solve.
• Final
Cut: Director Eddie Cheek is looking for backers for his
new movie so he’s throwing a gala shindig for interested
parties.
• Murder
At The Midnight Hour: Going to the chapel & we’re gonna get murdered, uh, sorry, married...Hippies & wealthy snobs just don’t mix!
• Murder
On Maui: Our Hawaiian luau murder mystery.
• My
Alma Martyr: This class reunion won’t be boring but you know it will be deadly. Do you dare attend?
• Next
of Kin: "Big Daddy" Sugarbaker must decide which of his worthless, underhanded, crazy kin will inherit his vast estate.
• Rushmore’s
Revenge: A social for the 1979 graduating class of Rushmore’s Beauty Academy for Women.
• Spies
Like Us: Our tribute to science fiction.
• The Dead Man's Chest: This Mardi Gras Ball will become a swashbuckling pirate adventure to search for a dead man's treasure chest.
• The
Demise Of The Downhome Dealers: A major Country & Western band celebrates the signing their new record deal.
• The
Mafia Murders: Circa 1920’s. Someone in the family is out to destroy the Godfather. So much for loyalty to "da boss".
• Thirst
For Blood: Devil's Gulch is cursed which makes its annual town gala doomed. (Great for Halloween!)
• Vintage
Murder: An historical winery is forced to go up for sale and 6 people would kill to get their hands on it.
• What
Happened To Sam Disney? Gotham City has a mysterious benefactor.
Or they did. Now he’s gone missing and it’s up to you
to find him!
All games are suitable for parties of 20 or more. We strongly encourage you to read a script sample (see below) before purchasing to make sure it will suit your needs. And please do read how our games are played - it's important because there are many different ways to play a murder mystery game.
Seamus O'Malley hires a public relations firm to help him put his cherished yet failing pub back in the black.
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- You can put this in any era you choose.
- Great choice for St. Patrick’s Day.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. Flirtation between a married man and single woman. Drunkenness.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: None. Flirtation goes to motive to commit a murder. Drunken woman reveals bad behavior and a secret.
- Corporate adaptation: Instead of a pub make it your company.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95.
Y’all are invited to Miss Iggy’s, the best little whorehouse in Deadwood - or shall we say the deadliest?
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Circa 1880 -The Old West at its best! (OPTION: You can put this in any era you choose.)
- You can change the name of this mystery to Dead in Deadwood AND you can have it be a dance hall & saloon instead of a bordello. The girls then become can-can girls and nickel a dance girls.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. Bordello/prostitutes. Former religious zealot now turned madam. Gambling theme (lost bet). Married woman sleeping with another man.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: You can make it the best dance hall and saloon in Deadwood. The girls become can-can girls and nickel-a-dance girls. The religious zealot is completely optional. The married woman sleeping with another man is also optional but the woman still needs to be infatuated with the man.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Ebenezer Pennypincher is visited by a ghost who has a story to tell and a mystery to solve.
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- You can put this in any era you choose. We like the turn of the century.
- For your holiday party it becomes The Ghost Of Christmas Past but this script is adaptable to anytime of the year.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders. Affair.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: The affair can be eliminated but the 2 people must be very, very close friends to cause jealousy with the wife.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Director Eddie Cheek is looking for backers for his new movie so he’s throwing a gala shindig for interested parties.
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Includes auditions for your guests!
- You can put this in any era you choose.
- Great choice for an “Academy Awards” party.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. Man dresses in women’s clothes. Gay man. Casting couch. Cheating and sleeping around.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: It’s hard to have Hollywood without all those things but you don’t have to have the man dress in women’s clothes. The other issues can be toned down but are important to the plot.
- Corporate adaptation: Eddie’s new movie can be about your company or your CEO and Eddie is using your employees as extras to give his movie “realism”.
- This script has been translated into Italian by a customer. After you order this game, please email us if you'd like the Italian version emailed to you at no additional charge.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Going to the chapel and we’re
gonna get murdered, uh, sorry, married...Hippies and wealthy snobs
just don’t mix!
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Circa 1969.
- Great choice for New Year's Eve. Why? The bride and groom will tie the knot in a ceremony designed to end at the stroke of midnight (kind of a hippie thing to do, is it not?). It’s do or die time now – literally - before the new year rings in.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. May/December affair. A woman who drinks too much.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: The older woman having the affair with a younger man can be toned down to her have a mid-life crisis unrequited crush on the young man. The woman who drinks too doesn’t necessarily have to although she does need to remain pretty mean and vindictive.
- This script has been translated into Italian by a customer. After you order this game, please email us if you'd like the Italian version emailed to you at no additional charge.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Our luau murder mystery. You’re invited to
one of Harold Logan’s
(in)famous luaus and a fundraiser for HAAL, The
Hawaiian Association of Authentic Leis.
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- You can put this in any era you choose. Great choice for a pool party.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. Psychic character. Use of a voodoo type doll. An ex-con stripper character. Gambling (minor references). Affair between stepfather and stepdaughter.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: The ex-con stripper can be toned down to being a waitress in a dive bar. Change the affair to an “unrequited love/crush for an older man” syndrome or the stepdaughter can be furious at her stepfather because she hoped he would actually stay married to her monster mom so she could have a dad. The gambling (card game) references are important but can be referred to then not mentioned again. The lucrative card games are why one of the characters wants to maintain ownership of a hotel. Psychic character is important. The voodoo-type doll is important.
- Corporate adaptation: This can be adapted as a corporate incentive trip.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Celebrate if you dare with Opossum State College’s Class of 1938 (or whatever year you choose). This reunion won’t be boring but you know it will be deadly. Do you dare attend?
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. A male character is somewhat abusive and mean to his wife. Flirtation (not affair) between an unhappily married woman and single man. Psychic character.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: All of these issues are important to the mystery. We don’t recommend deleting them.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
"Big Daddy" Sugarbaker, wealthy Southern
patriarch, must decide
which of his worthless, underhanded, crazy kin will inherit his
vast estate.
- Requires 7 to 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- EASY FOR FIRST TIMERS. EVERYONE HAS THE SAME MOTIVE: THEY ALL WANT DADDY’S MONEY.
- You can put this in any era you choose.
- Great choice for any sort of family gathering.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders. Reference to an affair. Gay man (still in the closet).
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: You can easily remove any reference to the man being gay and any reference to the alleged affair. Neither are motives for the murders.
- Corporate adaptation: This can be adapted to have Big Daddy become a partner in your company or be best friends with your CEO.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Take a look at this commercial for the Next Of Kin murder mystery. Dorothy deBakker of the Holy Redeemer Parish played it at the end of Mass to get people's interest up for the murder mystery dinner they were having. The video was fun to do and the congregation laughed pretty hard just seeing their fellow parishioners dressed up!
A social for the 1979 graduating class of Rushmore’s Beauty Academy for Women.
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- All female cast.
- We love to make the women English or Southern.
- Perfect for that all-girls party or for guys that like to dress in drag.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders. Reference to a woman trying to kiss another woman.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: Remove the reference.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Our tribute to science fiction. Dr. Ernest Terrence
Mars (but you can call him E.T.) is a renowned scientist and an
expert in the field of alien research. His "flu eradication drug" (if that's what it truly is)
will be the talk of the medical world after he completes Phase
2 of the testing. You and your guests are alleged "Phase 2 test subjects".
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Modern day
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders. There are lover relationships in this script.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: If you’re uncomfortable with these relationships, just tone them down and tone down any dialogue you think is too suggestive.
- Corporate adaptation: Your company has provided funding or has worked with E.T. Mars to help create this drug.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
1857, New Orleans. This Mardi Gras Ball will become a swashbuckling pirate adventure to search for a dead man's treasure chest.
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Mardi Gras Ball is optional but please note the year is 1857 so costumes will probably need to be rented. You can move it to modern day but the whole pirate theme will lose some of it's fun.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: None
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
The
Demise Of The Downhome Dealers
Major Country and Western stars Dixie Diver and the Downhome Dealers have come home to Mossy Bottom, Texas to announce the signing of their new contract with Good Ole Boys Records.
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- No singing required (unless you want to).
- You can put this in any era you choose. Keep it in modern day or have it take place in the early 1940’s (Depression era) - think “O Brother, Where Art Thou”, the movie starring George Clooney.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. A character gets drunk. There are references to a woman turning tricks. There is a single woman who thinks she's pregnant (she's not).
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: You can eliminate any reference to the woman turning tricks. The drunk character needs to be able to drink in his misery. The allegedly pregnant woman must stay in the script as is. She is actually quite innocent of any sexual act.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Circa 1920’s. Someone in the family is out to destroy the Godfather. So much for loyalty to "da boss".
- Requires 7 to 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Great choice for your holiday party - make it A Very Mafia Christmas.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders and killings. Gangsters.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: None.
- Corporate adaptation: Our Godfather is taking over your company or forming an alliance with your company - you’ll all be one big “family”.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Read a customer success story here. And here too.
Devil's Gulch is cursed which makes its annual Halloween costume party doomed*
*You can also do this one anytime of the year by changing the party to The Annual Groundhog Day Gala or The Annual Turnip Festival Gala, etc. It's a great choice for Friday the 13th!
- Requires 8 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- Alternate Title: The Mystery of Devil's Gulch
- You can put this in any era you choose - we like the turn of the century.
- RATED: PG-13
- CONTAINS: Murders. Occult and paranormal theme.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: None.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
An historical winery is forced to go up for sale and 6 people - some wine lovers, some not - would kill to get their hands on it.
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- You can put this in any era you choose.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: Murders. One character has a bottle of beer he drinks from.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: None
- Corporate adaptation: A corporate meeting or incentive trip to the winery.
- This script has been translated into Italian by a customer. After you order this game, please email us if you'd like the Italian version emailed to you at no additional charge.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Gotham City has a mysterious benefactor. Or they did. Now he’s gone missing and it’s up to you to find him!
- Requires 6 people to play the prime suspects. For groups of 20 or more people.
- No murders, kidnapping only. Also includes a short, 15 minute scavenger hunt to find 5 clues.
- RATED: PG
- CONTAINS: A psychic character. A gambling addiction.
- SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVES: The psychic can have an imaginary friend and think she’s psychic. The gambling addiction can be changed to a shopping addiction.
- Regular version: $24.95 | Team building version: $39.95
Copyright
laws and conventions protect all Haley Production's mystery games
Can’t
decide on a theme? Download
script samples of any mystery game and show these choices to
your cast of primary suspects. Whichever script excites them the
most is the one you should do. If they’re enthusiastic about
the theme and the characters, you’re half way home to a great
mystery evening. More helpful hints.
Editing/changing a mystery: All mysteries can be edited for content so long as you maintain a motive for murder for each of the suspects. If you have ANY questions please contact us.>>> See Our Game Ratings Guide.
Adapting a storyline for a special occasion: Is it someone’s birthday? Anniversary? Tweak the storyline so it’s a celebration for them (don’t forget to adapt the program included with the game). How memorable will that be? An evening full of fun and zaniness not to mention wild characters and a murder or two. An unforgettable celebration to be sure.
REVIEW: "I and my wife along with a cast of ten more members presented Murder on Maui to 125 people at our yacht club. The event was a spectacular success with both the guests and cast having an outstanding time. Several of the yacht club members have already approached us about being in the cast for next year’s event. Guests complained that their faces and stomachs hurt from laughing way too much. Other comments said that this was the best event that we had at the club all year. Thanks for providing an outstanding package for our event. Thanks!" Rick & Sydney Shaurette, Palmetto, FL
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