The War Files · Case dossier

The Cairo Conspiracy

Cairo, Egypt · July 1942

“The desert is sixty miles away and everyone here is dressed for dinner.”

The scene, before you arrive

Cairo in the worst month of the war, with the front close enough that the embassies are burning papers and the bars are busier than ever. A death in a hotel that is half headquarters and half rumour mill. Everybody in the room has a reason to be somewhere else, and half of them have papers saying they already were.

That is as much as the file will give you. The rest comes out on the night, one piece of evidence at a time, and the room will be well into the evening before the shape of it shows.

Inside the file

What you get

The script

Fully scripted evening

Every act cued, every scene set, your lines where you need them. No prep, no printing, no experience required.

The evidence

Clues arrive in stages

Evidence and private dossiers drop to your guests' phones as the night unfolds, one act at a time.

The host

You play the victim

Set the table, welcome your guests, then haunt the evening while they work out who wanted you gone.

The table

6 to 12 players

A core cast carries the case, with flexible roles as your table grows. Latecomers can join as observers.

The stage

App-hosted

The case runs from any screen in the room. Your TV is the stage, the phones are the wings.

Original fiction

Cairo in 1942 and the atmosphere of that summer are real. The hotel, the people and the killing are invented for this game.

Unlike our eight Case Files, which reopen real unsolved cases, this file is invented from end to end. There is no historical verdict to look up and nothing to spoil by reading around it. The solution is fair, the evidence is all in the room, and your table settles it.

Want a real one? The eight Case Files are genuine unsolved cases with real inquests.

Host The Cairo Conspiracy.

Host it at your own table. Nothing to print, no script to learn, and you play the victim, so you finally get to attend your own party.

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