Death in Antarctica is an Escape crime game. It is a different type of Murder Mystery in a box, as you are not playing the suspects. Instead you are investigators, trying to sort through the evidence and finding out who killed Robert Kohler. The City Adventurers settled down to solve the murder of the former… More Death in Antarctica
Murder on The Nile is also known as the Murder by the Pyramids This is a Hercule Poirot murder mystery story with a jigsaw puzzle attached. As you would imagine from the title, the setting is a trip on a glamorous river steamer on the Nile. With these sort of 1,000-piece puzzles the picture is… More Murder on The Nile
Being a City Adventurer can be a lot of fun. We get to explore new places, discover new things and experience adventures. I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve “Saved the World”, either by completing an escape room or assisting Dr Who. We’ve caught more murderers than you can shake a stick at,… More Are you a City Adventurer?
We ordered the latest puzzle game in a box from Raven Mystery Games – Murder On The Titanic. We had to wait for a while for it to arrive from the USA, but once it did, we were keen to play…… More Murder On The Titanic
I came across an intriguing boxed game, Escape The Murder Mansion. It purported to be a Murder Mystery combined with an Escape Room. “Solve the puzzles, find the killer” it said on the box. As it was billed as a game for up to 8 people, we gathered a group of City Adventurers and opened… More Escape The Murder Mansion
Having played a number of Deckscape escape games, we came across another type of card based game by the same company. This time instead of escaping, we needed to solve a murder. Decktective Blood Red Roses is a co-operative card game for up to six players. The noise of a carriage breaks the silence surrounding… More Bloody Red Roses
Murder 57 Ltd produced an online murder mystery adventure set in the 1920’s, called A Fashionable Way To Die. Synopsis: It is July 1921 and Florence Tremaine, widow and owner of Tremaine Fabrics, one of the top fabric manufacturers in Europe, is hosting a small party to thank her staff and customers. The event will… More A Fashionable Way To Die
It took longer than the City Adventurers were expecting to make our way to Hatfield. A lot of country roads through Essex were flooded and, after driving through numerous “new fords” that weren’t supposed to be there, we found a lot of roads ahead had been closed by the police. Undaunted we headed out to… More Who Saw Someone Killing Santa Claus?
This first appeared on Solve The Murder – https://solvethemurder.wordpress.com/2019/09/05/murder-at-the-manor/ We were invited to Heathcliff Manor, where Lord Heathcliff was hosting a dinner party to celebrate his recent marriage. But before anyone could toast his happiness, Lord Heathcliff was killed with the candlestick in the pool room. This was Murder at the Manor and we had to… More The Heathcliff Manor Murder