Bev Postma hosted Casino Fatale in Singapore for New Year's Eve. She writes: "Happy New Year to all at Freeform Games! We had a fantastic night on New Year’s Eve thanks to Casino Fatale. We staged the game at Brasserie Gavroche (aka Hotel d’Etoile) with a real Parisian Chef and a real Parisian Casino Manager. We even played a recording of...
In this newsletter: a new game (The Roswell Incident), extra characters for Murder on the Dancefloor, updated versions of Way out West and Death on the Gambia, and a playtest opportunity.
Lorraine Shaw sent us some photographs of her A Heroic Death murder mystery party. She writes: "We had an awesome evening playing A Heroic Death! It was my daughter's 17th birthday party. This is the 3rd freeform game we've played and we love them (we are in Zimbabwe). Such fun for everyone!" It looks like they are having lots of fun! A Heroic...
Our ongoing project to update our games to our latest format continues with Davy Jones’ Locker and Way out West. Davy Jones’ Locker We completed this earlier in the year but forgot to mention it here on our blog. Davy Jones’ Locker is our shipboard game of pirates in the Caribbean. The Libra is sailing from Tortuga to Florida – but with so many...
Melissa Covert told us about her The Karma Club party:"We had the best Karma Club party. It was an all girls party, and it was so fun! Everyone dressed like their characters, brought some candy cigarettes, and made food and drinks in the 60s."
Rachel Foyst recently told us about her Way out West party:"We played Way out West as a fundraising event for our son's trip to Europe with other youth at our church. It was a fabulous time! We used all 27 available characters and there were plenty of townsfolk who came as spectators. We were surprised how quickly the characters jumped into...
In 2017 Alex sent us their Way out West party photos - enjoy. (Some of our pages of party photos are getting long and unwieldy, so we are moving some photos to the blog. Way out West, as our most popular game, is one of the worst culprits, so as an ongoing project we're moving some old photos to their own blog page.) Group photo of everyone...
2022 felt like the pandemic was finally behind us. While COVID-19 is still around, it’s not the terror it once was, and the world (or at least, our part of it) is on the road to recovery. From our perspective, that means people are gathering in groups – and where there are gatherings, there are murder mystery parties! The recovery that started in...
Debbie Townsend sent us her A Heroic Death photos which she hosted for a Christmas family gathering in a Welsh manor. She used both the adults and the children's version of A Heroic Death and writes, "It was a fantastic evening's entertainment, some really competitive players. Children loved being involved too. No-one guessed who the murderer...
Using a Google Form to help cast Murder on the Istanbul Express murder mystery game.