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Birthday Party/Murder Mystery dinner?????

My birthday is in October and I really want to do a murder mystery. I would like to do it similar to the Clue game. The thing is the only guys attending are my brothers and father, and I'm not sure if they will play part in it. I will also have more than just three girls so do you guys have any suggestions as to how I can make this work? Names for added characters (girls)? And how to go about this? Should it be scripted? And any other ideas for this please??? Thank you!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I've been to a few murder mystery parties and they're really fun. All of the ones I've been to have been all girls, so some girls played guys and they all had a great time playing boy characters. But if you do want all girls here's a list of characters from Clue: Master Detective that has more girls (and guys) in it.

    Girls: Ms. Scarlett, Mrs. White, Mrs. Peacock, Mademoiselle Peach, and Mme. Rose

    Boys: Colonel Mustard, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, M. Brunette, and Sgt. Grey

    You can always turn the boy characters from the game into girls too...like you could have Mrs. Green and just make Professor Plum a female professor. But if you wanted brand new characters, your best bet is just to take a female title (Mrs., Ms., Mme., Lady, etc.) and pick a color to add it in front of so you get names like Mme. Violet, or Lady Clementine or Ms. Evergreen, etc.

    From my experience with these parties, I don't think you should make it scripted because then people will just read the script to each other. If you don't script it, it forces people to get more into their character, making it more fun. Instead, you can give each character a sheet with things they know and secrets to keep or spread. Like on Ms. Scarlett's, maybe one of the things she knows is that the murder did not happen in the dining room or the kitchen and she's also heard rumors (which may be false or true) that Mrs. White has been carrying a knife on her all night and that Mme. Rose was had been having an argument with the person who was murdered right before they were found dead. You can make some people's facts overlap and give everyone different motives. Then if you wanted to, you could hide clues or something in each of the rooms that are being considered for having the murder occurred in.

    Hope this helps! Oh and if you decide that you don't want to make up your own murder mystery dinner party, then here's some websites that my friends and I have gotten our parties from and they were really fun:

    http://www.dinnerandamurder.com/

    http://www.mymysteryparty.com/admypaga.html?gclid=...

    but basically if you go to google and search murder mystery dinner party a bunch of sites will come up and you can preview alot of the games and characters, etc.

    Good luck!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There are two ways I can think of.

    One. Prepare sheets of paper with titles on. You must have one victim, one murderer, and at least one detective. Fold the sheets into four and place them in the hat. When all 'playing' guests are assembled, they each choose one piece of paper, which they read without letting anyone else see. The person choosing the 'Murderer' title is the only one allowed to lie, all the others MUST tell the truth. The detective(s) then question everyone as to who was where when the victim copped it.

    The other way would be to use the cards from Cluedo with or without the board!

    Good luck, and have fun!

  • Wendy
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Wink murder! Everyone gets in a circle and one person goes out of the room and is the detective - everyone decides on either one or two people (depending on the amount playing) to be the murderer/s - call in the detective and he has 3 guesses at guessing who the murderer is - meanwhile the murderer is winking at people without being caught winking by the detective - when winked at you have to act out a dramatic death!

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