Chicago, New Year's Eve 1929. The owner of a speakeasy announces he's selling the club and settling every score in the room — then dies at the midnight toast. Everything you need to run the evening prints from your home printer.
The kit does the acting for you. Every guest gets a booklet telling them exactly what to reveal, what to hide, and who to accuse in each act — and the murderer doesn't find out it's them until the third act. Even the shyest guest at the table has something to say all night.
42 pages, designed like a 1929 magazine, ready to print on any printer.
Two chains of evidence — who touched the plate, and who could reach the medicine cabinet — cross at exactly one name. No guesswork, no trivia, no "you had to know that." We paper-tested every clue against every alibi before we shipped it.
The final piece of evidence isn't a clue. It's the reason the murder never needed to happen. Your guests will be quiet for a second, and then very loud.
Plays with 6, 8, or 10. Someone cancels an hour before? The host guide tells you exactly which character to drop and what to do with their clues.
Every role plays as any gender — the solution turns on a key and a plate, not on who's who. Five of the ten names work unchanged; the host guide gives an alternate for the rest. Eight women and two men? Still works.
Real deco typography on clean pages. Ink-friendly on purpose — no heavy backgrounds, and it looks right in black & white too.
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Send the invitations. Each guest gets a character and a costume note.
Print and host. Follow the run sheet. Pour something. Watch them turn on each other.
About two and a half hours across three acts, plus however long dinner takes. The host guide gives you the timings.
The host runs the evening and reads the victim's lines — you're not a suspect, so you can watch it all unfold. Everyone else plays a character.
Not at all. Every role plays as any gender, and the host guide gives alternate names for the five that read as gendered. Nothing in the mystery depends on it.
It plays with 6 to 10. The host guide says exactly which characters to drop and where their evidence goes, so nothing breaks.
No. Every booklet says what that character must admit and what they may deny — and the murderer doesn't know it's them until Act Three.
One zip with 22 print-ready PDFs, sorted into folders: host, invitations, booklets, evidence, sheets, and the solution (clearly marked SPOILERS). US Letter.
Yes — print another set for a different group. Personal use only; please don't resell the files.
Seven days, no questions. Email operator@promptish.io with your receipt.