Printable Murder Mystery Party in Canada

Canadian printers hold Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches, and the Murder to Order files are laid out on A4, which is slightly narrower and taller. The two sizes are close enough that one setting fixes everything. In the print dialog, tick "fit to page" (the wording varies by printer, but the option is there). The page shrinks by about six percent and nothing is cut: no margin lost, no line of a character sheet pushed onto a second sheet. Text stays perfectly readable at that reduction. Do it once and check the first page before printing the rest. If the printer ignored the setting, the giveaway is a clipped edge; reprint with the box ticked. The comparison of the two sizes, with the exact figures and what happens if you skip the setting, is in Murder Mystery PDF: US Letter or A4?. Color is optional: the character sheets, the host guide and the ballots are text and print cleanly in black and white on any home printer, so a kit for eight costs little in ink.

Every price on the site is 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 playable by 2 to 6. Payment goes through Stripe with an ordinary card, and your bank converts the charge into Canadian dollars at its own rate. No converted figure is shown, because that rate is not ours to set. One purchase covers the whole group, which puts a kit for eight players under $5 a head. Nothing is shipped, ever, and in Canada that matters more than in most places. There is no parcel crossing the border, so there is no customs form and no wait at the border, because there is nothing to inspect. There is no delivery window either: the PDF is generated and emailed within seconds of payment, at any hour, in any province. A host in Calgary who pays at 9:00 pm on a Friday has the file at 9:01 pm. The one rule that follows from instant delivery: a digital file cannot be refunded once it has been sent, except where the law requires it, so confirm your player count before you choose the tier.

The fourteen scenarios sold here also exist in French at meurtresurmesure.fr, the French edition, a site written in French. For a Canadian host that opens a useful possibility: a table in Quebec can play in French while a table in Ontario plays the same story in English, and the two groups can compare notes afterward because the plot and the clues are the same. Two things to know before you plan it. Each language edition is a separate purchase in its own currency, so a bilingual evening with two tables means buying the English kit here and the French kit there. And the PDF is not editable, so names, places and dates cannot be changed inside the file. What you can do is choose the edition per table, or use the French edition for the whole group if French is the language most guests read comfortably. The full picture of the three editions, English, French and German, and how to decide which one a mixed group should play, is in Same Murder Mystery in English, French and German.

Winter '74 is a detective case file, not a role-play kit: 2 to 6 players, $39, about 2 hours, difficulty 4 out of 5. A seasonal worker vanished from a ski resort in 1974 and the case went cold. The group reopens it from the documents, together, with nobody playing a suspect and nobody hosting. Hints are included for when the table stalls, and the solution is sealed until the group has settled on an answer. It suits a Canadian cabin weekend for practical reasons as much as for the snow. A case file needs a table, not a full cast, so four people in a rented chalet are the right number. It has no host, so nobody sits out. And it runs about two hours, which fits between dinner and the last drink. Print it before you leave, since the cabin printer is a myth, and pack the pages in a folder with the solution kept at the back, unread. For a larger group at the cabin, six to twelve people, the seven murder mystery kits are the role-play alternative, each with a host guide, one character sheet per player and ballots for the final accusation.

Searches for a murder mystery kit Canada download usually end with the same question: how long until I have it? The answer is seconds. You pay by card, the PDF is generated, and it is emailed at once. The time zone you sit in changes nothing, in Vancouver as in St. John's. There is no waiting for a business day, no tracking number, and no risk that a box arrives after the party. If the email is not in your inbox within a few minutes, check the spam folder first, then the address you typed at checkout. If it is still missing, write to us with that address and the time you paid. What instant delivery does not remove is the printing. Plan it the day before rather than the hour before: printing a full kit and sorting one envelope per character takes thirty to forty-five minutes, and reading the host guide once from start to finish takes about twenty more. A realistic sequence for a Saturday party is to buy on Wednesday, print on Thursday, hand out character sheets on Friday, and open the game on Saturday at 7:30 pm, with three rounds and the reveal done by 10:00 pm.

Murder mystery party ideas in Canada tend to follow the seasons, and the catalog covers each of them. A cabin weekend in January is Winter '74 territory. A cottage weekend in July suits The Cursed Island, castaways and pirates, about 2 hours, played on a deck or a dock. An October evening calls for The Cursed Manor, a gothic inheritance story of about 2 hours. New Year's Eve fits Murder at the Royal Casino, the 1920s in 2 to 2.5 hours, where the dress code writes itself. All seven kits play with 6 to 12 players and are recommended from age 14, with no graphic violence in any scenario. The host is the narrator and plays the non-player characters, reads the introduction aloud, hands out the clues round by round and reads the solution at the end. Everything the host needs is in the PDF: the host guide, the character sheets, the clues organized by round, the ballots and the solution. What is not in it, invitations, name tags and decorations, is yours to make. For how the files work, from the tier you choose at checkout to the license that lets you reprint them for the next weekend, see the printable murder mystery kit page.