As the Beads Drop: Murder at the Mardi Gras
As the Beads Drop Mardi Gras game trailer
Promotional graphic for a Mardi Gras mystery party game, featuring colorful masquerade beads, a purple mask, and large 'As the Beads' and 'New Orleans' text. A white review card with a five-star rating and the Judge.
As the Beads Drop: Murder at the Mardi Gras
As the Beads Drop Mardi Gras game trailer
Promotional graphic for a Mardi Gras mystery party game, featuring colorful masquerade beads, a purple mask, and large 'As the Beads' and 'New Orleans' text. A white review card with a five-star rating and the Judge.
My Mystery Party

As the Beads Drop: Mardi Gras Murder Mystery Party Game

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5.0 6 reviews
Available for download at checkout
$43.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU MARDIGRAS
  • Age Range 15 to Adult
  • Minimum # of Players 8 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 12 Suspects
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 48: 20 Suspects, Up to 28 Team Roles (1 Team)
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 6/10
  • Roles Co-Ed (See Host Character List)
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At Madeline Broussard’s Royal Court party in New Orleans, where members of the Krewe of Pantheon gather during the height of Carnival season.
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Mardi Gras Traditions Afoot * Clean, Lighthearted Drama, Scandals & Betrayal * French Quarter Vibes
  • Publication Date 2008. Last Revised: 2022
Description Included Reviews

A festive New Orleans Mardi Gras murder mystery party game set during an exclusive Royal Court celebration. This lively Carnival mystery is packed with outrageous Krewe members, Royal Court rivalries, colorful New Orleans personalities, Mardi Gras trivia, dance contests, suspicious histories, simmering disagreements, fingerprint evidence, and murder.

Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

Mardi Gras—also known as Carnival season—fills New Orleans with Bal Masques, tableaux, Royal Court gatherings, charity events, and dazzling parades. The Krewe of Pantheon is one of the city’s longest-standing Carnival organizations, with more than 200 members. By tradition, Madeline Broussard, the newly crowned Mardi Gras Queen of the Krewe of Pantheon, is hosting the prestigious Royal Court party to launch the season.

The Krewe members will arrive in outrageous Mardi Gras fashion for an evening of appetizers, challenging trivia, energetic dance contests, a delicious meal, and an entertaining movie challenge.

Unfortunately, several members of the Royal Court have clashing personalities, troubled histories, hidden motives, and strong opinions about nearly everything. The celebration may be festive, but disagreements are already threatening to turn the party into a Carnival catastrophe.

You are a member of the Krewe of Pantheon, your attendance at the Royal Court party is required, and this is where your story begins.

Host a Large-Group As the Beads Drop Game:
  • Main Game: 12 unique co-ed suspect characters
  • Expansion Pack #1: 8 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes 4 female and 4 male roles.
    • All 8 expansion characters are optional.
    • Includes an optional expandable Boucher Family team led by Bayou Bobbie Boucher.
    • The Boucher Family may include 28 non-suspect, duplicated roles. 

All 20 suspect roles are unique characters. With the expandable Boucher Family team, the complete game can accommodate 48 players.

Host Character List, Game Preview & Free Resources

This game is licensed for personal, private use only. If you plan to use it for any commercial purpose, public event, business, organization, school, fundraiser, church, promotional activity, paid event, or any use that generates revenue or provides a commercial benefit, you must purchase a Commercial License.

Purchase Commercial License
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Chartell
Sounds Fun

I haven't hosted this game yet but everyone is looking forward to playing.

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Heather Geyman
So much fun!!!

This was my third murder mystery party this year, but the first one I used a mymysteryparty game for. It was the best party by a landslide! The extra games were hilarious and the game set up was way more interactive and fun! I also loved the addition of the victim! Everyone is asking when the next one is going to be! I HIGHLY recommend!

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Raifert Keyton
Kids Loved It

I work for a Boys & Girls Club in WV and we had a teen lock-in. We hit a few bumps in the road just from it being the first time i had ever done this however the kids went bananas for this. They were all over the place with trying to understand the clues. We included the money task as well and it made it that much more fun. There are several different packs that we are interested in getting to do as a fundraiser here as well as more teen fun nights.

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Anonymous
Fat Tuesday Murder Mystery party

We host an annual Fat Tuesday party and wanted to add more fun...This was a great addition to our party. Our friends really enjoyed it. Everything was well packaged and arrived on time. We look forward to hosting another one.

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Ramona
1st time murder mystery host

The game came with adequate instructions to follow with flexibility that the host could go all out or keep it more simple. We had a large group of first time murder mystery players and really had a lot of fun.

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Steve Dorrough
Mardi Gras Madness

Had a great time hosting this party. The key is to have great party guests that want to have fun. Ours all played their part to the nth degree. The group is beginning to talk about who will host the next mystery dinner. This is more fun than just getting together for dinner with friends. I highly recommend this party. Let the good times roll !!!!