Murder Mystery Halloween Parties – Collecting Ideas

For most Halloween-haunt and house-decorating enthusiasts, collecting and plotting out ideas is the best part of decorating for Halloween. For a Halloween murder mystery party, it’s no different. In our previous blog posts we’ve discussed choosing your game and setting your budget, so if you have missed those tutorials you may want to go back and read them before, or after, you read this discussion. Of course, you’re not going to be able to decorate for your party and add in all... 

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Sherlock on Showcase – my new fave show?

*Warning – Spoilers! If you read on and I blow a surprise, don’t come email-crying to me, you’ve been warned!* Since my 18-month-old’s napping schedule is unpredictable at best, I always like to have a line up of great wind-down shows on my PVR that I can dial up when I need a mental (and physical!) break from it all. I just happened to see it as I was browsing through the digital guide last week – a 2 hour show called “Sherlock” on Showcase. Assuming it... 

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VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE BIBLIOTECA MARCIANA – INSTRUCTIONS

Dear Host, The Masquerade Murder/The Antikythera Code has a very special feature unique to this game and not offered through any other murder mystery game company, and that’s the Arounder.com virtual tour of the Biblioteca Marciana. This incredible website puts you and your guests right inside the library, and gives everyone a first-hand glimpse of the setting. But more importantly, your game has been specially designed so you and your guests can interact with the 360% tour of the rooms in... 

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Murder Mystery Halloween Parties – Set Your Budget

Hello Halloween planners! Can you believe there is only 6 weeks until Halloween? Crazy! Time is flying by so quickly. Savvy Halloween hosts are already preparing for the big event, designing their costumes, planning their haunts, creating or buying decorations… and there are some people out there (like the junkies at HalloweenForum.com and myself) who have been planning Halloween 2010 since November 1, 2009. Scenes like this give me the warm fuzzies That’s why this week we’re looking... 

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Murder Mystery Halloween Parties – Choose your game

Fall is the time for entertaining. The weather is turning colder, our holidays are over and we again turn our focus to spending time with our loved ones.  Plus, the minute most of us see leaves beginning to change our thoughts turn to gourds, candy and Halloween costumes. Does this mean "Pumpkin Carving" to anyone else? Each of us knows that one person who always throws the party, and it’s always fantastic. But really, anyone can throw a fantastic Halloween party, they just need... 

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Free! Evidence Tags and Arson Evidence Tags

Sometimes while I’m working on downloadable murder mystery games for public release or private custom mysteries for clients, I create something I think might help others who are designers or those who want to add a little something extra into their murder mystery party. These evidence tags are free, just right click on the image and click “save image as” or “copy image”, depending on what you’re going to be doing with it. For those who are throwing a mystery party,... 

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Why I love September 1st

It’s September first! Woohoo! Every year on September 1st, I feel as excited as if it were my birthday (if not more, the older I get). This has nothing to do with the fact that’s it’s actually my favourite cousin/sister/godmother to my son/best friend’s birthday, but we’ll pause for a second to say FELIZ CUMPLEANOS to her on her special day. The day she DIDN'T crash the plane and she and I both lived to tell the tale. Then again, there wasn't a time she DID crash... 

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