Murder Mystery Party in Toronto

The files are composed for A4. On Letter, tick fit to page, or scale to paper size depending on your dialog, and the sheet shrinks by about six percent with nothing cut off. Print single-sided. That is the entire adjustment. Do not print without it: at 100 percent on Letter the bottom of each page is clipped, and on a photographed exhibit the clipped part may be the line with the time on it. Check the first page before sending fifty. The four kits are on the murder mystery kits page.

Eight players plus a host is the realistic number for most condo dining tables, and it happens to be the most common head count anyway: the six core characters plus two supporting ones. The four characters you do not deal stay in the story, their social documents remain among the exhibits, and the host answers briefly for them. You also need somewhere to put the exhibit folders that is not the dining table, and a corner where two guests can negotiate an objective without the whole room listening. A kitchen counter does both.

January in Toronto is the right season for a three-hour file. Kits run about three hours: twenty minutes of silent reading, acts opened at set minutes, half an hour of negotiation, ballots, reveal. If you would rather not host, a cooperative case file has no host and no roles. The Enigma Code is a good winter evening for a small group: Bletchley Park, 14 March 1943, Operation Kestrel, ten exhibits and five real cipher puzzles solved with a pencil, about two hours, seventeen pages to print.

Prices are in US dollars: $39.90 for a kit, $39 for a case file, $49 for The Phantom Affair, $219 or $279 for a custom scenario. Your card issuer converts, and since nothing is shipped there is no duty, no brokerage and no delivery window. After payment an email brings a personal code, and you download the file from the portal. The code waits indefinitely until first used, then stays valid one week from that first opening rather than from the purchase, which makes buying ahead of a holiday week easy.

The same catalogue exists in French as a separate site, with the same eleven products, the same picture-dossier format and the same portal. The two editions are separate purchases, not two languages inside one file. For a table where some guests would rather read in French, the honest approach is to pick one language for the evening: the exhibits have to be comparable, and two people reading two different editions of the same register will lose the thread. The printing routine, step by step, is on the printable murder mystery kit page.