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37 cases on sale, each sold on its own. Filter by who is playing, how long you have and what it costs. Nothing here is a subscription.

Party cases266 to 12 players
Be the Detective51 or 2 players
Jury trials6solo or 6 to 12

thirty seven cases. one killer each.
none of them yours to worry about.

38 of 38 games

The Case FilesEight real cases, 1876 to 1929

the ones still argued over

The Charles Bravo case · 1876

Poisoned at the Priory

A poisoning nobody was ever charged with. The most argued-over inquest in Victorian London.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Ardlamont mystery · 1893

Not Proven

A shooting on a Scottish estate and a verdict Scots law reserves for exactly this.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The killing of William Terriss · 1897

Curtain Call

An actor stabbed at his own stage door. Everyone in the building had a motive and an audience.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Peasenhall murder · 1902

Providence House

A village that tried the case twice and could not agree either time.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The killing of Stanford White · 1906

The Red Velvet Swing

Shot in front of a rooftop crowd. The trial that gave America the phrase trial of the century.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Crippen case · 1910

The Cellar at Hilldrop

The case that made forensic evidence famous, and the one modern testing reopened.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Hall and Mills case · 1922

Under the Crab Apple Tree

A minister, a choir singer, and a jury that acquitted everybody.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Croydon poisonings · 1928

A Death in the Family

Three deaths in one family in under a year. Nobody was ever tried.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.

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The Halloween FilesSix cases, original fiction

everyone arrives in costume anyway

Blackthorn village, Dorset · 1897

All Hallows at Blackthorn Mill

A village with an old custom and a very literal way of keeping it.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Victorian goldfields, Australia · 1899

Ghost Season at Gallows Hill

A goldfields town, a hanging tree, and a claim worth killing for.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Merchiston Medical College, Edinburgh · 1888

The Anatomy Theatre

Medical students, a body on the slab, and a question about where it came from.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Skerry Point Lighthouse, Cornwall · 1954

The Light at Skerry Point

A lighthouse, a storm, and nobody who could have come or gone.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Carfax Hall, Kent · 1932

The Masque at Carfax Hall

Everybody is already in costume. Only one of them is wearing it for a reason.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Ravensmere House, Norfolk · 1923

The Séance at Ravensmere

A medium, a grieving family, and a message from the other side that names a name.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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The Christmas FilesSix cases, original fiction

snowed in, presents open, one guest short

Ashworth Hall, Gloucestershire · 1952

A Body Under the Tree

Christmas Eve, a full house, and a body where the presents should be.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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A ski lodge, Snowy Mountains · 1973

A Cold Christmas

Christmas in July, one road out, and the road is shut.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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St Cuthbert's, Dunmore, Dorset · 1953

The Carol Singer's Secret

A church choir with forty years of grudges and one carol nobody will sing.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Hartley Grange, Yorkshire · 1955

The Twelve Suspects of Christmas

The largest cast in the catalogue. Built for the Christmas table that will not fit in the dining room.

Players
11 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Hard (largest cast)
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Hargreaves Department Store, Manchester · 1958

Tinsel and Treachery

The staff Christmas party, after hours, with the shutters down.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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The Grand Mountain, Blue Mountains · 1980

Yulefest

Christmas in July in the Blue Mountains. Mulled wine, mountain fog, one guest short at breakfast.

Players
7 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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The War FilesSix cases, 1942 to 1943

one traitor at every table

RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire · 1943

Operation Nightfall

A drop that never took off and a crew who all had a reason to ground it.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire · 1943

The Cipher at Bletchley

The quietest room in the war, and the one place a secret could not be kept.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Occupied Paris · 1943

The Paris Safe House

Six people above a bookshop on the Rue de Rivoli, and one of them is talking to the Germans.

Players
7 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Estoril, Portugal · 1943

The Lisbon Handover

A neutral casino town where every guest is somebody's agent.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Cairo, Egypt · 1942

The Cairo Conspiracy

Heat, gin and a leak that only somebody at the table could have made.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Admiralty House, Portsmouth · 1943

The Admiral's Dinner

A formal dinner, a sealed order, and a host who does not make it to dessert.

Players
6 to 12
Time
2 to 3 hours with dinner
Difficulty
Easy to moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Be the DetectiveFive cases for one detective or two

no guest list

Caldwell Manor, Wiltshire · 1957

The Wrong Kind of Dead

A locked house. An open safe. The money trail is a lie.

Players
1 or 2
Time
60 to 90 minutes
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Arden Cross, Herefordshire · 1943

The Keeping of Secrets

Wartime. Everyone has a secret. The killer's bond to the victim is nothing like it looks.

Players
1 or 2
Time
60 to 90 minutes
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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The Royale Theatre, London · 1962

The Last Performance

A death on a lit stage, four hundred witnesses, and a past in Coventry no one mentions.

Players
1 or 2
Time
60 to 90 minutes
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Dunmore-on-Sea, Devon · 1971

Dead Calm

A planning dispute, a quiet harbour, and a blackmail no one reported.

Players
1 or 2
Time
60 to 90 minutes
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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St. Agatha's College, Oxford · 1969

The Open Verdict

Academic rivalry, a plagiarised proof, and a verdict the college would rather leave open.

Players
1 or 2
Time
60 to 90 minutes
Difficulty
Moderate
Price
A$39

App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.

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Jury DutySix trials, solo or with the whole room

twelve chairs. your verdict.

Circuit Court · 1879

The Arsenic Mirror

A wife, a packet of arsenic bought for rats, and two analysts who do not agree.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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High Court of Justiciary · 1926

The Third Verdict

A student, a pistol, eleven forged cheques, and the verdict only Scotland allows.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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Central Criminal Court · 1889

The Fourth Jury

Three juries could not agree. You are the fourth.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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Central Criminal Court · 1935

The Empty Witness Box

The Crown's only eyewitness was shot the night before he was due to give evidence.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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Supreme Court of New South Wales · 1873

The Claimant

A Wagga Wagga butcher who says he is a baronet, and the one man who could have exposed him.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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Supreme Court of Victoria · 1934

Two in the Dock

A wife and a chauffeur, tried together. The jury may convict both, acquit both, or split them.

Players
Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
Time
Not published
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
A$29 solo · A$39 group

App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.

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Quick MysteriesIn development

thirty minutes. one culprit.

Short cases for a spare half hour

Quick Mysteries

Shorter interactive cases for one person or two, thirty minutes to an hour each. The first, a whodunnit, is being written and tested. Nothing is playable yet.

Players
1 or 2 (planned)
Time
30 to 60 minutes (planned)
Difficulty
Not rated
Price
Not decided

In development. Browser based, on a phone, is the plan. Original fiction.

Be told when it opens →In development
Three things the cards cannot say

Read before you
pick a night.

The trials

Every party case can go to court

Each of the 26 party cases has a trial. Buy the party with its same night trial, or the Full Case across two nights. The trials are released case by case and the buy buttons on the three ways to play only appear for the ones that are ready.

Real or fiction

Eight are history. The rest are not.

Only the eight Case Files reopen a real crime, with real evidence and a verdict still argued over. The seasonal cases, the Be the Detective files and the six jury trials are original fiction, and every page says which it is. How we treat real cases.

Still deciding

Four questions, three cases

If the filters leave you with twenty candidates, the case selector asks four questions about your table and hands back three. No email, no account.

Pick a case.
Host it tonight.

Every case is one payment, delivered by email the moment it clears, and includes the printable pack. Nothing is posted, nothing recurs.