A murder mystery game for 6 players
A complete murder mystery party for exactly 6 guests, played on everyone's phones. Each guest gets a private invitation with their character and a costume idea, and clues unlock act by act on the night.
What a 6-player game feels like
Six is the most intimate size. Every character is part of the core story, so every guest holds at least one clue the group needs. Conversations stay in one room and nobody gets lost. It is a great size for a dinner party: seat everyone at one table and let the accusations fly between courses.
The 6 characters in Death at the Hollowmoor Masquerade
Every year, the perfumer Vesper Hollowmoor throws the most talked-about Halloween masquerade in the county. This year, every guest received a black envelope with a handwritten note: "I know what you did. Come to the masquerade and find out what I intend to do about it." By half past ten, Vesper is dead in the glass conservatory, and every guest had a reason to want the midnight announcement silenced.
- Sloane Hollowmoor, The Heir. Vesper's only living relative and, until recently, the presumed heir to the Hollowmoor fortune and the Nocturne perfume empire. Charming, restless, and famously bad at sitting still.
- Dr. Ellis Marrow, The Physician. Vesper's personal physician and oldest friend. Calm, precise, and never seen without a battered black medical bag.
- Marlowe Quill, The Medium. A celebrated spiritualist who claims to speak with the dead. Vesper hired Marlowe to read tarot at the masquerade, from the candlelit alcove beside the conservatory's ballroom door.
- Remy Graves, The Steward. Has run Hollowmoor Hall for twenty-five years. Knows every creaking floorboard, every hidden door, and exactly how Vesper takes the tea: valerian, no sugar, at ten o'clock sharp.
- Rowan Ashby, The Rival Perfumer. Head of the small Ashby perfume house. For thirty years the Ashbys have claimed that Vesper's legendary scent, Nocturne, was stolen from their family's formula notebook.
- Jules Vance, The Business Partner. Vesper's business partner and the money behind Hollowmoor Perfumes. Loud, generous, and always the last to leave the bar.
Any guest can play any character. You can cast your friends yourself, or leave it to chance so that nobody, not even you, knows who the killer is.
Price
Free. Death at the Hollowmoor Masquerade costs nothing for 6 to 8 players, with no sign-up and no ads.
How to run it
- Enter your 6 guests' names and send each one their private link, ideally two weeks ahead.
- On the night, read the opening from your host page.
- Announce the password for Act One. Everyone unlocks their secrets and starts mingling.
- Read the evidence for Acts Two and Three and announce each new password.
- Everyone accuses someone. Then break the seal on the solution and read it aloud.
More guests or fewer? See the game for 8 players, 10 players, 12 players.