How to Use the Optional Witness Packages for your Murder Mystery Party
As hosts, it’s not always easy to get a 100% commitment from our guests for a party – and understandably so – life is busy! So, how do you plan a murder mystery party with necessary characters when a few of your guests can give you a ‘maybe’ at best?
Well, with our interactive “Mingle” mystery format, there are lots of ways to make this scenario work, and one of these tools we give you, as the host, is The Witness Expansion Pack!
But we do offer a solution in the Witness Expansion Packs. This is an optional package that you can add on to your mystery package either at the time of purchase (if you know you have one or two maybes) or after your purchase, if your numbers change.
How it works is this: the Optional Witness Package has two characters who are not integral to the plot. In an all-female murder mystery party game, those two characters will be female. In a Co-Ed mystery, you will find one male and one female roll. If you need different genders from this, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us and we can see what we can do for you!
The Optional Witness roles are just that – they have a character name, name tag and suspect guide, as well as “Share” information – what they have seen or know pertaining to the murder or crime. What they don’t have is “Hide” information, or their own secret motives. So, you can easily use these characters if you need to, but if your “Maybes” can’t make it in the end, your mystery party will be unaffected!
Other Ways To Use the Optional Witness Package
There are, of course, other ways to use the Optional Witness Package to supplement your party and guests. For example, if you have guests who are maybe a bit on the shy side. These Witness characters are perfect for younger sleuths (in one of our “Clean” mystery packages, of course) who want to be involved and circulate information but aren’t advanced enough to hold down a full Suspect role themselves. Also, if you have a guest who is a bit apprehensive – for example, they are worried they might mess something up and ruin your party – those guests can also take on an Optional Witness roll instead.
You can also use the Optional Witnesses to supplement your murder mystery party guest list numbers. Because we cap our mysteries at 18 Suspects for quality purposes (want to know why? Click here!), if your numbers equal slightly more than that (19 or 20), you can use the Optional Witness Package so that you don’t just have one or two guests without characters.
