hey there today we are sharing everything you need to know about
hosting or going to a murder-mystery dinner party we got invited to a
murder-mystery dinner party and we did not know what we were going to do when
we got to the party like how do you play how do you host what's going to happen
when you get to the dinner mystery mystery dinner party pop into my video
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tons of fun at a murder-mystery dinner party you can search online for all
kinds of kits that are for your number a group of people there are some for
single adults couples teenagers kids some of them do not have the word murder
in them for younger kids before you even get to your murder mystery dinner party
all you know is that someone was murdered and all of you are the suspects
and what your background information is and a costume idea or suggestion but no
dress up is mandatory why am i a number one fan of murder mystery dinner parties
because you are going to be laughing and talking with people you don't know or
your best friends ever the people who are shy are going to come out of their
shell because they're in character mode this is a great team-building exercise
for work people or just to get to have some good fun with your friends I do
recommend not having kids at the murder mystery dinner party because you are
going to have a script at the dinner party and you need everyone to be at the
table to hear the script and the clues that happen when everyone's talking you
can also download some kits online if you buy them or you can just buy a kit
for a small group of people or a large group of people there are so many
variations of murder mystery dinner parties
and there is no time schedule there is a script so it could last about two hours
three hours but you can take a break anytime during the dinner party and just
chitchat so there's no set time schedule it's just so fun you will be so
surprised here are the leader responsibilities so
for us we had one lady who wanted to host but did not want to take care of
the details so we got a leader who first decided on a couple of dates and you
have to know for sure that these couples are going to be there because that is
what kind of kit you're going to buy like we knew there were going to be four
couples so we bought a kit for three couples and then there are two
bystanders who are the leader and her husband maybe who don't have a lot of
talking parts but they are going to take control of the details in your kit
you're also going to have mailing invitations that gives each person a
little background about their character so after the leader finds out who's
going to be able to be at the party she then sends the email and in the email
she just copied word-for-word in an invitation of each person's character
for instance I made up my own because once you've done this you cannot do it
again because you know who the murderer is so here is a sample email that I
would have sent out if I was the leader poor Caprice wagon died three years ago
and each of you is a suspect Polk's toboggan you were her husband you
are a German car dealer whose company filed for bankruptcy four years ago but
came out of it just a year later costume ideas sleazy car salesman pants and
shirt and huh greasy hair German accent Kim Kardashian do you see the theme now
Kim Kardashian you're dripping in jewels you can buy anything you want after your
car broke down on i-10 during a hurricane you have been in the limelight
ever since Hollywood loves you and a dress would be lots of jewels Autobahn
is a husband football player okay he's not ever paying for the dates that he
and Kim Kardashian are going on Mini Cooper is this faithful servant who
is now the heir of all of Caprice wagons billions so you can see that every
character has a guilty part like each one of them could be the real murderer
but you won't find out until the night of the mystery dinner party so in the
email you have the description of what each character is so everyone who is on
the email list is going to see those character write-ups and they can dress
up I got a cheap crown and then tarnished
it with gold spray paint and I found a dress at the Goodwill store on the day
of the party for $4 if I had not found that I was just gonna wear a nice dress
and get a boa at Party City or at Michaels you do not need to dress up
that's what I'm trying to say so you have sent the email so that everyone
sees this all of the characters and costume ideas and they also see that
they need to bring something to eat the leader is responsible or the host if
they want to the leader is responsible for making sure people have signed up to
bring food we had appetizers and I highly suggest having lots of appetizers
because you're gonna have those out when people are coming in taking pictures and
milling around and then you bring those appetizers to the dinner table and
that's where you're gonna do like two different rounds for like an hour before
you eat the actual meal so have lots of appetizers and then we had one main dish
and then people brought appetizers and they brought bread wine and then we had
a dessert round okay and our kid did come with place cards you can use them
we did not because one was missing there's minimal decoration involved now
in our party planner book there was an entire menu what to shop for at the
grocery store it was like exactly what foods to have and exactly what napkins
to use we did not do any of that because it's too high maintenance for what night
we wanted to pull off everyone is milled around and we've moved the appetizers to
the dinner table and you as the leader will have a CD and so that CD is going
to introduce basically say what the emails said that
there was a murder and all of you as a suspect please read your background
information and stop when you see a picture of the stop sign so as the
leader you pass out everyone's booklet and they can only see they're named like
Papa Vito Marilyn Marlowe that's who I was in the inside of the each person's
booklet it is their own background information they can only read that part
and the main role is is that you cannot lie if someone accuses you have
something you cannot lie but you can make people think that someone else is
guilty by deflecting the truth but you have to tell the truth for what you do
know okay so you're going to read your background information that tells you
some guilty things that nobody knew about but somebody does and they're
going to bring it up during the party that kind of thing the leader and her
husband are going to be the minimal characters they do very little talking
because they took care of the details and they're leading the CD playing and
they're gonna say okay is everybody done reading the background information okay
now we go to part one so the leader will know exactly what she's supposed to say
during each round after each person has silently read their background
information then it will say now you can start round one script and this is like
a three page easy short script where each person has the entire script and
you're going to read all of it word-for-word and it just sets up the
mystery okay so you've finished with the script
because everyone sees the word stop or a picture of the stop sign at the bottom
of their page then the leader is instructed in her booklet to play the CD
and now it is round one it's like a 30 second CD recording that says okay now
round one you have accusations that you're supposed to accuse people of your
character and then you also have responses and it tells you in your
booklet who is going to accuse you and what your response is going to be
like here is my example that I made up so in Kim Kardashian's booklet her first
part is accusation so sometime during this time of round one she is going to
need to accuse mini-cooper of something she's supposed to accuse her of knowing
where every one of the diamonds and the Vagan mansion is point out that she is
now the heir of Capri swaggins Millions did she change the paperwork then you
wait for her response and so then in mini coopers booklet
she has respond to Kim Kardashian whenever she accuses you of something
another thing that Kim Kardashian might have is accused pulse dragon no one
knows but he inherited $500,000 when his wife died three years ago bring up the
convenient happening of his company filing for bankruptcy a year before she
died and then coming out of bankruptcy the year she died and then on Kim
Kardashian's page it has response so she knows that pokes toboggan is going to
accuse her of something and this is what her response is going to be it's true
that that is my real name it was a little embarrassing I was in shock that
my dad was the captain of that Exxon Valdez so leak I do not have ties to him
any longer and there never was a cover-up I share my hard-earned money
with my current boyfriend Otto bond now this is where during the accusing and
the responding round one is this is where everyone can ad-lib they're going
to really ham it up but if you were holding pokes waggons little booklet his
page says accusation accused Kim Kardashian of her false identity so he
might say oh Kim Kardashian you and that is not German whatsoever um you think
say you're you are you really Kim Kardashian it's not German at all okay
so you're accusing her you're getting into the moment you accuse her that her
father was really the captain of the ship Valdez all that leaked oil
everywhere so your guests are going to understand when they see their little
booklet of accusations and responding they're going to understand what to do
it's so easy and you as the leader are going to have that in your character
booklet of the accusations and responding and this is what we do we
just start and it kind of goes as long as people want it to go they can keep
digging keep bringing up that Kim Kardashian is not her real name that
kind of thing it is so much fun when we were done with the background silent
reading and the first word-for-word script and then round one of accusation
and responses we just stopped for dinner and we just chitchat it like we didn't
do party mode or anything anything from the script at all we just ate and
enjoyed each other's company and then we picked it up for round two in round
three and then had dessert somewhere in there and at the end then it's going to
say okay now the the leader is going to say okay this is the last round and
that's when the leaders booklet says okay in this round to say that now is
the time when you are going to point to someone who you think is guilty and tell
them why and then that person who is the murderer only finds out that he or she
is the murderer on that last page of round three and so she or he is still
trying to deflect blame and then the leader would finally say okay that
person is the culprit this is such a good way to get to know your friends and
your enemies and to bring people out of their shells and just it is so much fun
I hope you feel educated I hope you feel empowered and pumped up to have your own
to host it to be a leader or to go to one and no kind of what to expect at
your murder-mystery dinner party thanks for popping over