How To: Host a Murder Mystery Party

I’ve always wanted to host a murder mystery party but never knew how to go about it. That changed during a brainstorm at work when we came up with the idea to host one. The theme would be "Who Killed Myspace?" (I work in social media ;)) 

We decided to host a networking event with Ad 2 DC & tie the mystery into it. I will be sharing photos after the event (next Wednesday if you're in the area) but I didn't want to spoil the surprise!

Grab your friends & get ready to throw a murder mystery party! 

1. Determine Your Guest List

How many people do you want to attend your party? From here you can figure out how many characters you will need. We estimated around 25-30 guests for our party & came up with 35 social platforms to be the characters for our guests.

2. Develop Your Characters

This is the fun part! We created a word document with each character & wrote a description about their personality, who they hang out with, etc. Ours are a bit silly since we are using social platforms as the characters but it was fun & really got us thinking about who the murder could be...

3. Clues

After writing the character descriptions you should decide who the murder is. Come up with clues leading back to the murder in your document. For example: Ask XYZ whom XYZ was last seen with.

4. Print Character Descriptions

Once you have your character descriptions & clues print copies for your guests. 

5. Create a Ballot

Create a ballot to hand out to guests so they can cast their vote on the murder.

6. Best Actor

We also created a ballot so attendees can cast their vote on the best actor. You can giveaway a fun prize to get people really into it.

7. Prepare Roles

In an envelope include: the character description & clues to give to each guest as they arrive.

8. Props

Get a few props for each character to make it fun & to help get your guests really into the mystery.

9. Decorate

The day of your party decorate your space! You can also serve specialty cocktails to get your guests really into the Halloween spirit!

10. Have Fun

Your guests will solve the mystery with the hints that they were given & at the end everyone will write down who they believe to be the murder. Don't forget to have fun!

Do you have any fun Halloween traditions? Stay tuned for pictures from our event! 

Xo,

Emily