I'm sure I don't need to mention the worldwide coronavirus pandemic currently underway, but please be responsible in organising a social gathering and make sure you follow the latest advice. Playing Death on the Gambia before the days of social isolation Some of our customers are doing that - and still hosting our murder mysteries… A Will to...
One of our customers, Kelly from Michigan, has told us of the numerous prizes she uses when she hosts our games. Except where noted, the awards are voted on by the players themselves and tallied at the end of the game. “We usually try to get all the ballots in by mid-game, but since few obey, we accept them until we have votes tallied. You guys...
We're mid-way through January so it's time to look back and see how the last twelve months have been. I don’t like to do this in December, because the year isn’t fully over and we haven’t tallied all the sales. Death on the Gambia We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 - you can read them all here. 2019 continued to build on the success of...
One of our customers, Rob from Canada, wrote to tell us about a variant for our pickpocket rules that he used. Watch out - there's a pickpocket about! Here’s the text that he prepared for those with the pickpocket skill: Your character has the Pickpocket ability. Your ability card shows what you can pickpocket and how many attempts you have...
Here's a great YouTube video about interactive murder mystery games created by Isaac Litkowitz and friends. Isaac interviewed Mo and I over Skype, and we appear (briefly) in the video. The video features lots of scenes from our murder mystery games - so you can get a sense of how they play, and reactions from many of the players....
The Freeform Games newsletter December 2019: Christmas Lies, ideas for prizes, converting Curse of the Pharaoh, and a review of The Reality is Murder.
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! Welcome to another issue of our occasional newsletter. In this issue we talk about: Extra characters for Court in the Act A Speakeasy Murder actual play video Pirate games for Talk Like a Pirate Day Keeping score in a murder mystery game Enjoy! Mo and SteveNew characters for Court in...
Every now and again we are asked if we have a way of assigning points to goals so that our guests can keep score. We have never done that, mainly because in our experience is not necessary. We believe you can have as much fun in one of our games if you fail all of your goals, and making it competitive might undermine that. (I do suspect that the...
Helena Mas sent us this spoiler-free video of A Speakeasy Murder, filmed at Cafe Repin in Potsdam, Germany.
We were recently asked by Pam, one of our customers: I'm getting ready to run Court in the Act in three weeks time. I was just sending out character assignments tonight, and realized I accidentally listed Sir Walter Raleigh twice in my list, so I have two different people down to play him! My cast list/assignments is full, and I already have...