Yana Khomchanka’s Lei’d to Rest party
“I hosted Lei’d to Rest last weekend. It was first time for me or any of my guests to do the murder mystery game and everybody LOVED IT! Even people, I thought, might be too shy to enjoy it fully, surprised me by being totally committed to their characters (after I served a couple of Blue Hawaiians). The hardest part for me was to make people come, coz nobody was really sure what to expect and they were suspicious if the game was too complicated or had too much stuff to remember. But it’s neither! That’s the beauty of it – you don’t really need any experience or preparation to play. I got the decorations and made everybody wear tropical shirts. I also send all of my guests the first page of the description of their character (I suggest everybody to do it, especially for the “virgins”, because it takes at least half an hour to read the character and get all the details of ability and items cards and you don’t want your guests to get too confused before the game even begins). At the end I couldn’t make people stop.
At the end we sat down and everybody pointed at the killer and told their goals for the game and if they reached them or not, so all secrets and all plots became obvious.
Nobody guessed the murderer right though… But it still was so super fun! Thank you, Mo and Steve, for those games!!!”
Yana Khomchanka, United States
