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Assigning Characters to your Friends for a Mystery Party
Dec 09, 2025

Assigning Characters to your Friends for a Mystery Party

Assigning characters as the host is one of the most important parts of planning for your Dinner Murder Mystery party. Once you have got the proper number of RSVPs, you are ready to assign characters to your friends who are attending. The easiest way to assign the characters is to read the character descriptions and match each character with the guest that you feel suits that particular character the best. There are a couple of rules of thumb...

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Yes, You Can Host a Murder mystery
Dec 09, 2025

Yes, You Can Host a Murder mystery

If you have never attended a murder mystery party, then you don’t know what you are missing! And... yes, you CAN host a Murder Mystery, and it's a lot of fun. We have written and hosted a lot. It's great fun for your friends to dress up, come over, mingle, discuss and play parts, such as CEO's, spies, pirates, cowboys, gangsters (the 1920's kind), IT staff or RAF pilots.

There are lots of options with

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How to Host a Wine Tasting at a Murder Mystery Party
Nov 26, 2025

How to Host a Wine Tasting at a Murder Mystery Party

Hosting a wine tasting party at (for example) our Sour Grapes Dinner Murder Mystery is a great way to do something fun, classy, and different with your friends. This article will be oriented toward Sour Grapes, but could be adapted to any wine-related mystery. Since Sour Grapes is an Italian Murder Mystery set at a Vineyard and Winery in Tuscany, Italy, you need to have Italian wines. So, it’s best to have the wine tasting prior to dinner during the first half of the game. You don’t want to...

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