Murder at the Mistletoe Gala
A festive gala, a toast that goes wrong, and a room full of colleagues and family with something to hide. Corporate-friendly, no gore.
$39 Standard (≤14) · $54 Full Cast (≤20)
Print-at-home party kits · Instant download
45+ page printable kits with a host guide, a booklet for every character, and a 3-round clue system. Designed ink-light for home printers. The host can play too.
Browse the kits How it works — FAQThe fastest way a mystery night dies is clue logic that doesn't hold together — a culprit nobody could have found, or three culprits the clues can't separate. So before any kit here goes on sale, it passes four checks: a full logic matrix (the solution is uniquely determined, every red herring is a deliberate red herring, nothing contradicts), two independent cold-solve passes — two solvers work the kit from the clues alone, with no outside knowledge, and both must reach the same culprit — plus an adversarial pass that tries to convict the strongest innocent suspect and must fail, a character-balance pass (every character has a secret, a reveal, and a reason to be suspected), and minimum-cast and host-as-player runs. If a kit fails any check, it doesn't ship.
All three kits in this store have passed all of it — each one cold-solved twice and adversarially tested on the exact text that ships. No kit goes on sale here until it does.
A festive gala, a toast that goes wrong, and a room full of colleagues and family with something to hide. Corporate-friendly, no gore.
$39 Standard (≤14) · $54 Full Cast (≤20)
Prohibition gin, a jazz band, and a blackout at midnight. Built for New Year's Eve, and a proven crowd-pleaser all year round.
$39 Standard (≤14) · $54 Full Cast (≤20)
Big hair, old grudges, and a prom king who never made it to the reunion photo. The evergreen pick for birthdays and class reunions.
$39 Standard (≤14) · $54 Full Cast (≤20)
Every kit in its Full Cast edition (up to 20 players each) — the Christmas gala, the speakeasy New Year's Eve, and the 80s reunion — for $99. Bought separately, the three Full Cast editions are $162; the bundle saves you $63 and stocks your party shelf for the year.
Setup checklist, timeline, casting guide, and spoiler-safe instructions — the host can take a character and play along.
One per character: background, secrets, costume hints, per-round objectives, and scripted reveals.
Physical/searchable clues plus character-revealed clues, mapped on a clue matrix so the solution is earned, not guessed.
Invitations, name cards, suspect/evidence board, awards certificates (best actor, best detective), solution envelope, and a dramatic reveal script.
The Locked Study — a free 6-player mini-mystery, about 20 minutes, held to the same clue standard as the full kits — is in production. It will be released here, free, once it passes the same cold-solve check.
These are digital downloads, and sales are final — with one promise that matters: if a kit ever contains a verified logic error, the buyer who reports it gets a refund or a replacement, and the kit is pulled and fixed for every buyer. A mystery that can't be solved fairly isn't a product, it's a defect — and we treat it that way. Full details in the FAQ.