Bloodwood Masquerade Murder Mystery

We enjoyed a night at the ball! I purchased the downloadable version. Printed everything out my myself and organize the scripts for everyone. Took only about an hour to prepare everything. I used envelopes so make sure you purchase some in advance it made everything easier to hand out at the given times. My only thing though is I wish we had more people to play. We had the required amount of people but would have been more scandalous, haha, if we had more. We had 8 in our party so next time I will look for one that only accommodates that amount.

We had a Blast playing this! I printed the game myself and we chose to do mardi gras themed masquerade. Our group was 18 Adults, we will be replaying with a smaller group of teens. Will definitely be purchasing another game very soon! I highly recommend. Seriously everyone ❤ it and can't wait to do another one!

My daughter's friends had a blast unraveling the mystery at her 15th birthday party. We had 10 guests that grabbed ball gowns from older sister's closets and goodwill. We printed the invite on linen paper, rolled them like scrolls, tied with a black ribbon and delivered in person. The week of the party we sent out the pre-game cards and got the hype going as the girls texted and emailed the first parts of the story. We ordered masquerade masks in bulk online and put them at their table settings. The day of the party, we sent a pic of their place setting telling them the mystery was in motion and their place in the story was set to begin. They all came excited to join the story. We opted to print our own clues on cardstock and purchased some A2 envelopes to put them in. Printing them was a bit tricky, but google printing A2 envelopes DIY and it worked. Easy to print and prep. Then my husband was the butler, my other daughters and I were the maids, so we got to hear them acting the parts as we circulated with appetizers or served the meal. We decorated the den with tons of candles to set the castle feel, cast the Bloodworth Masquerade pic onto the bigscreen, and we played the Phantom of the Opera soundrack. Guests mingled and enjoyed the party. 4 of the 10 guests were able to guess who did it, so it wasn't super easy and not too hard for teens. The victim had a great time setting up the crime scene from the victim bag. We purchased bloody handprint decals for the bathroom mirror and caution tape. We got a toy dagger and a halo that lit with LED lights. She loved her role and even guessed her killer. All in all a great party. We even had a "mugshot" backdrop for photo opp and printed "I've been framed", "the butler did it" "I saw nothing", etc with fake handcuffs, a mugshot paper that said BLOODWORTH COUNTY JAIL with the date of the party - -all very fun. So worth the $ - great memories made! We will be doing another at Halloween with all 3 of my girls' friends.

This was great fun. I had a party of approx 21 people (we bought the expansion as well). It was great how everything worked together - the expansion slotted in nicely, with pregame objectives to those in the main game and it all built up the excitement for the evening very well. There were plenty of red herrings and almost everyone had a motive to kill the victim, which was both hilarious (as the victim in real life is nothing like her character) and really made people think as the mystery unfolded. At the end of the night we had a little prize giving, and once revealed it was obvious how the murderer was the murderer, but only 3 people in our party got it right - so it really racked our brains. All in all, an amazing night and I highly recommend. P.S regarding the timing of the review and Covid 19 - our party was in New Zealand, which currently has the virus quite well controlled - and we didn't break any restrictions (100 people per event), so we did party safe.

Bought this for an online games night with some friends . . . it was a BLAST! We had a lot of large group conversations and reveals, but we also had people spending time in separate rooms on zoom or sending private messages in the chat box! At the end, every stated that they had a lot of fun and couldn't wait to do another one!

Since none of us could be together this Easter, we did this murder mystery game as a virtual game. We used Zoom meeting and we really had fun. It was a bit of work on my part sending everyone their clues but really worth it. Everyone already said they couldn't wait to do another party in person next time. Hopefully our world returns to normal soon!

This was super fun. I put together everything (putting the clues face down to keep them hidden). Everyone got into their character, and it was one my best parties ever. We had 12 people, in all. The only thing I'd do differently is to have gotten more food catered so I could have spent more time mingling. Regardless, we had a great time.

I ordered the PDF version and had my daughter put together the clues since I was participating. We played with three other couples as the 8 main characters. Everything went smoothly. Even our most introverted guest came out of his shell!!! Highly recommend!

I host murder mystery dinners regularly and this game was fabulous. I had 9 characters that had never played before and they did amazing. It was easy to follow and out of 6 teams 1 actually solved the mystery. I find sometimes when you have all characters that have never played it is harder to solve but this game was put together very well.