Printable Murder Mystery Party in Australia

Australian printers hold A4 paper, 210 by 297 millimeters, and every Murder to Order kit and case file is laid out on exactly that sheet. There is no scaling, no margin setting and no test page to worry about: open the PDF, press print, and each page comes out at the size it was designed for. Hosts in the United States and Canada, where Letter paper is standard, have to tick "fit to page" and accept a six percent reduction. You do not, and that alone removes the one printing step Letter-paper hosts have to think about. The file prints in color or in black and white on any home printer. Character sheets, the host guide and the ballots are plain text and lose nothing in black and white, so most of a kit can go through on the default setting. What arrives is the complete game: the host guide with the introduction to read aloud and the run of the rounds, one character sheet per player, the clues to hand out organized by round, the secret ballots for the final accusation, and the solution for the host only. The same is true in Britain, covered in Printable Murder Mystery Party in the UK, and in the rest of the A4 world.

The PDF is generated and emailed within seconds of payment, and the clock in Sydney, Perth or Brisbane has no effect on that. Here is what a same-night purchase looks like when guests are already expected. 9:00 pm: pay by card, open the email, save the PDF. 9:05 pm: print the host guide first and start reading it while the rest prints. 9:25 pm: print the character sheets, the clues and the ballots. 9:45 pm: sort one envelope per character, with the clues in a separate pile by round. 10:00 pm: hand out the sheets, give guests ten minutes to read, then read the introduction aloud. That is tight but workable for a kit rated about 2 hours, such as The Cursed Island or The Cursed Manor, with the reveal done before 12:30 am. It is not the way to do it when you have a choice. Buy a few days ahead, hand out character sheets two or three days before, and the evening starts on time with guests who already know who they are. If the email has not appeared within a few minutes of payment, check the spam folder and the address you typed at checkout, then write to us.

Prices are charged in US dollars: $39 for a kit of 6 to 8 players, $49 for 9 to 10, $59 for 11 to 12, and $39 for a detective case file for 2 to 6. Payment goes through Stripe with an ordinary card, and your bank converts the amount into Australian dollars at its own rate. No converted figure is shown on the site, because that rate is your bank's, not ours. One purchase covers the whole group, so a kit for eight is under $5 a head, and you may reprint it for another private party without paying again. Nothing is shipped, ever. For an Australian buyer that is the whole point: no parcel spending weeks in transit, no customs declaration, no delivery that lands the week after the party. The product is the PDF, and the only physical object is the paper you print it on. Because delivery is instant, a digital file cannot be refunded once it has been sent, except where the law requires it. So confirm your player count before checkout: the PDF is built for the tier you choose, and the host guide then tells you which roles to hand out at each number inside that tier.

Christmas in Australia lands in summer, and a backyard, a deck or a beach house is a natural place for a murder mystery party. The Cursed Island, castaways and pirates, about 2 hours, is the kit written for that setting: the story takes place outdoors already, so the garden does the set dressing for you. It plays with 6 to 12 players like every kit, from age 14, with no graphic violence. Playing outside changes the paper problems rather than the game. Wind takes character sheets, so use clipboards or a stone on the clue pile. Evening light fades, so finish the ballots before dusk or bring lamps out. Paper and a sprinkler do not mix, so keep the clue pile on a covered table. The full list of outdoor fixes, from page sleeves to where the host stands to be heard, is in Printable Murder Mystery for a Garden Party. Print the whole kit before the day, and print a second copy of the ballots: they are the one page that must survive to the end of the evening.

When the heat is too much, Murder at the Royal Casino is the indoor choice: the 1920s, a casino, 2 to 2.5 hours, and a dress code guests will follow without being asked. It works for a birthday with eight to twelve friends in an apartment with the air conditioning on, and for a winter night in July in Melbourne just as well. The host narrates and plays the casino manager, a non-player character the guide gives you, so nobody has to be recruited to run it. The structure is the same in every kit. Three rounds as a rule, with clues handed out at the start of each, then secret ballots, accusations spoken aloud, and the solution read by the host. Between rounds is where the food goes. For a birthday, keep the birthday person away from the culprit role if they are hosting, since the host reads the solution, and give them a suspect with plenty to hide instead. Three couples make six players, the bottom of the $39 tier, and a full table of twelve is the $59 tier at under $5 a head.

The seven kits and their run times, so you can match one to the evening you have: The Cursed Manor, gothic inheritance, about 2 hours. Murder at the Royal Casino, the 1920s, 2 to 2.5 hours. Crime Aboard the Orient Express, a night train, 2 to 2.5 hours. Hollywood Noir, a 1950s film set, 2.5 to 3.5 hours, the longest of the seven. The Cursed Island, castaways and pirates, about 2 hours. The Masked Ball, Venice in 1520, 2 to 2.5 hours. The Last Vintage, a Saint-Emilion vineyard in October 1985, 2 to 2.5 hours. Each one plays with 6 to 12 players and is sold by tier: $39 for 6 to 8, $49 for 9 to 10, $59 for 11 to 12. You choose the tier at checkout and the PDF is built for it. Inside the tier, the host guide lists a core cast of six roles that are always handed out, then which roles join at eight, ten and twelve players; the murderer and the key witness are always present. For 2 to 6 players there are seven detective case files at $39, cooperative and with no host. All of them are listed on the murder mystery kits page, and how a printable kit works from checkout to reprint is on the printable murder mystery kit page.