Comparison Chart

Our Corporate Team Building Murder Mystery Games and Scavenger Hunts
vs.
Our Regular Murder Mystery Games and Scavenger Hunts

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Our regular scavenger hunts
($19.95) include:

Friendly, helpful support from the game creator, Susan Haley

AND MASTER COPIES OF:

Organizer Instructions which include:
· Pre-hunt to do list
· Hunt timing
· Opening instructions to the teams
· What facilitator(s) need to do during the hunt
· What to do when teams check in at the conclusion of the hunt
· Supply and prep list

The scavenger hunt

Rules of the game

Grading worksheet

Scoring cards for optional team presentations

Team name badges

Award certificates

Hunt invitation

Team ID table tents

Item ID table tents or Collections Category Labels for the find items portion the hunt

Operation Recovery - our find items/covert mission hunt also includes: Mission Cloak and Dagger/supporting documents

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Our 16-page how-to guide to designing a location to location riddle hunt for your city or town - FREE with purchase!

WHAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE: Collection bags - 1 per team, digital cameras for all hunts but Operation Recovery and other items (like pens and clipboards) and prizes for the teams. For Operation Recovery, our find items hunt (no photo challenges), we also suggest you provide each team with $5 to $20 in petty cash as some of the items they need to retrieve will require a purchase.  You’ll need to provide at least one covert operative (usually a facilitator but we've had customers use volunteers at stores or use students at the local college).

 

** Click here for what's included with the Operation Romantic Rendezvous Hunt.

Our team building scavenger hunts ($39.95) include:

Friendly, helpful support from the game creator, Susan Haley. My many years (since 1988) of hands on experience, expertise and knowledge will help you take the guesswork out of how to build a better team and will save you hours of prep, research and design time.

AND MASTER COPIES OF:

Detailed Organizer Guide which includes:
· Pre-hunt to do list
· Hunt timing
· Opening instructions to the teams
· What facilitator(s )need to do during the hunt
· What to do when teams check in at the conclusion of the hunt
· Supply and prep list
· Facilitator assessment form for teams- they fill out this form as they observe the teams in action
· Team work cheat sheet for the teams to use as a guide
· Team assessment questionnaire for follow up and debriefing
· Teams in trouble/conflict: what to do
· Team warm up exercises
· Bonus team project

Hunt master (the same challenges as our regular hunt but the team building version has more detailed teamwork elements built into it and an additional challenge to give the teams at a mid-hunt meeting)

Rules of the game (with emphasis on teamwork); includes team objective/goals.

Grading worksheet

Scoring cards: teams will judge other teams' final presentations

Team name badges

Award certificates

Hunt invitation

Team ID table tents

Item ID table tents or Collections Category Labels for the find items portion of the hunt

Operation Recovery - our find items/covert mission hunt also includes: Mission Cloak and Dagger/supporting documents

Free with purchase graphic
Our 16-page how-to guide to designing a location to location riddle hunt for your city or town - FREE with purchase!

WHAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE: Collection bags - 1 per team, digital cameras for all hunts but Operation Recovery and other items (like pens and clipboards) and prizes for the teams. For Operation Recovery, our find items hunt (no photo challenges), we also suggest you provide each team with $5 to $20 in petty cash as some of the items they need to retrieve will require a purchase.  You’ll need to provide at least one covert operative (usually a facilitator but we've had customers use volunteers at stores or use students at the local college).

Our regular murder mystery games ($21.95 to $24.95) include:

Friendly, helpful support

AND MASTER COPIES OF:

Step by step organizer instructions and supply list.

The mystery itself (of course). Click here to download script samples.

ON SELECTED GAMES there are 2 versions of the game available to you with purchase! (Not available on all games at this time. We're slowly adapting all our mysteries but we aren't there yet!)

Version 1 is the Know It All version wherein the prime suspects get the script/sequence of actions ahead of time and know whodunit. Version 2 is the Narrator version where they'll just get their character descriptions ahead of time and you'll add a narrator to tell the story while your prime suspects act out what he/she is saying. In this version they won't need to know whodunit. YOU WILL RECEIVE BOTH VERSIONS WITH PURCHASE.

MYSTERY GAMES CURRENTLY ADAPTED TO INCLUDE THE NARRATOR VERSION: A Deadly Incentive, Bordello of the Damned, Diary of a Burning Woman, Final Cut, Murder at the Midnight Hour, Murder on Maui, My Alma Martyr, Next of Kin, The Mafia Murders, Thirst for Blood and Vintage Murder. Not available on all games at this time. We're slowly adapting all our mysteries but we aren't there yet!

Not yet adapted: Rushmore's Revenge, The Demise of the Downhome Dealers, Spies Like Us and What Happened to Sam Disney?

Prime suspect guidelines chock full of helpful hints on how to prepare for the exciting mystery party and their role as a suspect in a murder (for scripts where the suspects will know whodunit).

The program. You’ll provide this program to all participants. It’ll be their guide by providing the basic plot of the mystery, the primary suspect list and the "rules" of the game - all the info they need will be right in front of them at all times. Click here for a sample.

The detective’s evidence record (solution sheet). They'll fill this out as the mystery progresses (notes, clues, evidence, method of murder, motives and their theories on whodunit) and hand it in at the end of the mystery before the killer is revealed.

The invitation. You can use our printable invitation included with the kit or see our links at http://www.murder-mystery-game.com/resources.html for a list of e-invite URL’s to send all your party invites via email (all free to use).

Secondary suspect instructions (optional). EVERYONE will be actively involved in this mystery because it will be their job to solve the case and because you’ll be encouraging them to come in costume and in character. Use any or all of the secondary suspects included with each mystery game if you have "extra" cast members you want to use or if you have some guests who want to take on a character but not take on the full responsibility of a primary suspect. FOR LARGE GROUP MYSTERIES (75 OR MORE): We definitely suggest you cast your secondary suspects. During the mystery it will be the secondary suspects’ "job" to act as general support for the primary suspects. They’ll roam the room "gossiping" about the goings-in, quiet the audience down during a main action, answer questions, bring primary suspects to tables for questioning and make sure your guests have seen the physical clues that have been revealed.

Outstanding and Bumbling Detective award certificates.

Paper clues (for ex., a medicine label or a will).

Name tags/dinner table placecards (optional use).

"I'm Dead" sign for your victims so they can come back and enjoy the rest of the mystery (optional use).

Costume suggestions for the prime suspects.  Also, if you select a show set outside of modern day we include costume illustrations. (Check out http://www.murder-mystery-game.com/resources.html for costume and historical links if your script is a period piece.  That page is a great resource for you in general so please book mark it.)

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BUY? You'll need to provide a few items like murder weapons (like a fake knife, a pill bottle for a poisoning or rope for example). We'll let you know exactly what you need to buy/obtain in our handy organizer guide that comes with each mystery game. Everything you'll need to get will be very easy to find and every inexpensive.

Our team building murder
mystery games ($39.95) include:

Friendly, helpful support from the game designer. My many years (since 1988) of hands on experience, expertise and knowledge will help you take the guesswork out of how to build a better team and will save you hours of prep, research and design time.

AND MASTER COPIES OF:

Detailed facilitator guide (includes additional teambuilding elements to add into the mystery and the following):
· Facilitator step-by-step to do checklist
· Facilitator opening speech
· Teamwork adaptations to mystery script
· Teams in trouble/conflict: what to do Facilitator assessment form for teams
· Team assessment questionnaire for follow up and debriefing
· Bonus project

The mystery itself adapted to teambuilding: The participants will be divided into teams (usually each table represents a team) and will receive instructions for solving the case as a team. They’ll be assigned team roles and, to incorporate multi-tasking, they’ll be asked to complete a project while working together to solve the case. The other teams will judge that presentation. Each team’s speaker will present their findings at the conclusion of the mystery.

Click here to download script samples.

ON SELECTED GAMES there are 2 versions of the game available to you with purchase! (Not available on all games at this time. We're slowly adapting all our mysteries but we aren't there yet!)

Version 1 is the Know It All version wherein the prime suspects get the script/sequence of actions ahead of time and know whodunit. Version 2 is the Narrator version where they'll just get their character descriptions ahead of time and you'll add a narrator to tell the story while your prime suspects act out what he/she is saying. In this version they won't need to know whodunit. YOU WILL RECEIVE BOTH VERSIONS WITH PURCHASE.

MYSTERY GAMES CURRENTLY ADAPTED TO INCLUDE THE NARRATOR VERSION: A Deadly Incentive, Bordello of the Damned, Diary of a Burning Woman, Final Cut, Murder at the Midnight Hour, Murder on Maui, My Alma Martyr, Next of Kin, The Mafia Murders, Thirst for Blood and Vintage Murder. Not available on all games at this time. We're slowly adapting all our mysteries but we aren't there yet!

Not yet adapted: Rushmore's Revenge, The Demise of the Downhome Dealers, Spies Like Us and What Happened to Sam Disney?

Prime suspect guidelines chock full of helpful hints on how to prepare for the exciting mystery party and their role as a suspect in a murder (for scripts where the suspects will know whodunit).

The program. You’ll provide this program to all participants. It’ll be their guide by providing the basic plot of the mystery, the primary suspect list and the "rules" of the game - all the info they need will be right in front of them at all times. Click here for a sample.

The team evidence record (solution sheet). They'll fill this out as the mystery progresses (notes, clues, evidence, method of murder, motives and their theories on whodunit) and hand it in at the end of the mystery before the killer is revealed.

The invitation. You can use our printable invitation included with the kit or see our links at http://www.murder-mystery-game.com/resources.html for a list of e-invite URL’s to send all your party invites via email (all free to use).

Secondary suspect instructions (optional). EVERYONE will be actively involved in this mystery because it will be their job to solve the case and because you’ll be encouraging them to come in costume and in character. Use any or all of the secondary suspects included with each mystery game if you have "extra" cast members you want to use or if you have some guests who want to take on a character but not take on the full responsibility of a primary suspect. FOR LARGE GROUP MYSTERIES (75 OR MORE): We definitely suggest you cast your secondary suspects. During the mystery it will be the secondary suspects’ "job" to act as general support for the primary suspects. They’ll roam the room "gossiping" about the goings-in, quiet the audience down during a main action, answer questions, bring primary suspects to tables for questioning and make sure your guests have seen the physical clues that have been revealed.

Outstanding and Bumbling Detective award certificates.

Paper clues (for ex., a medicine label or a will).

Name tags/dinner table placecards (optional use).

"I'm Dead" sign for your victims so they can come back and enjoy the rest of the mystery (optional use).

Costume suggestions for the prime suspects.  Also, if you select a show set outside of modern day we include costume illustrations. (Check out http://www.murder-mystery-game.com/resources.html for costume and historical links if your script is a period piece.  That page is a great resource for you in general so please book mark it.)

Team roles and rules & teamwork cheat sheet

Team ID table tents

Teamwork project

Scoring cards: teams will judge other teams' projects

“Open Now” labels for team project instructions

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BUY? You'll need to provide a few items like murder weapons (like a fake knife, a pill bottle for a poisoning or rope for example). We'll let you know exactly what you need to buy/obtain in our handy organizer guide that comes with each mystery game. Everything you'll need to get will be very easy to find and every inexpensive.