Christmas Eve. An ice storm. At 8:07 the lights go out — and when they come back, the man who was about to name a thief is dead on the generator-room floor. One road in, one road out, and the killer is still in the room.
Get the kit — $19Hear the opening
Every kit opens with a seven-minute recorded scene: the storm, the carols, the blackout. Here are the first two minutes, exactly as your guests will hear them.
Everyone else may dodge a question once, but a second direct ask must be answered truthfully. Careful questions really do crack the case.
The answer follows from the evidence alone. We ran the full case through solver tests so nobody needs a lucky guess.
A snapshot taken as the lights dipped, and an enlargement that changes what everyone thought they saw.
Nothing here is a mock-up of a different product: every sheet is a page of the kit you download.
character bookletsthree rounds each: secrets, questions, testimony
page host guidecasting, prep checklist, card notes, the solution
evidence cardsincluding two photo clues
witness & townsfolk cardsso up to 14 guests can play
recorded audio openingor read it aloud from the guide
invitations · name tags · accusation slips
A page of the host guide, one suspect's Round One booklet, a sheet of clue cards and an invitation — printed, they look exactly like this.
Download the free sample (PDF, 5 pages)A printer, scissors, six envelopes (three smaller ones inside each) and a flashlight. Everything else is in the ZIP.
Yes. The host can take Pastor Ellis, a witness who already knows the answer and reads the photo clues.
The six suspects are needed. Witnesses and townsfolk are optional, for groups up to fourteen.
Yes. Email each guest their booklet pages per round, share the evidence cards on screen and play the opening through the call.
One ZIP (14 MB): four PDFs in US Letter and four in A4, the opening as an MP3, and a START HERE note.
$19 · one ZIP · print at home
Get the kit — $19Story and puzzle written with AI assistance and logic-checked by solver tests. The opening is narrated by an AI voice (Google Gemini text-to-speech); the two photo clues are AI-generated images. Every page shown here is the real printed kit. For your own private party. Please don't resell or share the files.