Mistlecombe Printable Murder Mystery Game Template

Write it in the sheet, one row per card, and decide who did it before anything else. Each guest is a Character row: Role is the line under their name, Text is what they tell everyone, Secret is something that makes them look guilty, and Goals gives them two or three things to do. Each clue is a Clue row with its Round, 1, 2 or 3, and its words in Text. A clue about something only a few guests have, such as muddy boots or a limp, rules the rest out at once, and a witness who was fooled can keep the culprit looking innocent until the last round. Before anyone plays, cross the guests off clue by clue and check that only your culprit is left. The Solution row says who did it and which clues prove it, and the note sheet's Suspect columns take your guests' names.

No. The crime at Mistlecombe Manor is a theft: one guest takes the Blue Pearl in the ten minutes the candles are out, and nobody is hurt, which keeps it right for players of 10 and up. For an older table you can make it a murder by rewriting the story card, the first clue and the solution. Every other clue still points at the same guest.

Four to eight players and an adult host. Characters 1 to 4 always play and the other four join in order, so the same cards work for any number in between; the four clue cards about the extra guests say on their bottom line when to leave them out. Each of the three rounds takes about 15 minutes, and with the story, the accusations and the solution a game runs about 75 minutes. Printing and cutting out the 27 cards takes about 20 minutes more.

The eight card designs, one score pad design, their fields, 27 sample cards and one sample score pad are copied into one project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the designs: the cards under All cards and the score pads in a collection of their own. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.

The cards are Tarot size, 2.75 × 4.75 in, 69.9 × 120.7 mm, 825 × 1425 pixels at 300 DPI. The score pads are Large Score Pad size, 8 × 10 in, 203.2 × 254 mm, 2400 × 3000 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and each part exports at its own size.

Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.

Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card or score pad drawn on it follows.

Yes. The cards and the score pads each have a sheet, and the samples are rows in them, there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.

Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.