University Games 08441 Death by Chocolate Murder Mystery Dinner Party Game

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She started writing fiction at a young age but Santa saw through those and never took her off the naughty list.

A chocolatey murder mystery for 8 to 12 players set at a new product launch party. The Large group version is for 16 players upwards, (aged 13 and over) This guide will tell you about your character and motives, instructions for how to play and more. All the information you will need at the party will be in your guide. LITTLE FITZ - The most sensational cabaret star of the day, he shares his ventriloquist act with his dummy Ziggy. Death by Chocolate is a murder mystery play written by Lesley Gunn, and tells of the murder of the owner of a chocolate factory. As per the usual format of murder-mystery evenings, the audience are fed clues throughout the play, often designed to confuse, and at the interval the cast mingle with the audience and answer their questions. An all-knowing inspector of police supervises the investigation, and at the conclusion the audience are invited to name the murderer or murderers. The producer, Marc Skinner has the discretion to alter the ending slightly each evening so that subsequent audiences don’t already know the answer. Amie Wallace played DCI Abbott, who investigates the murder and directs proceedings in the latter part of the play. She came across as confident, knowing and efficient.DR. DORIS JOHNSON - An amateur archaeologist specialializing in the Aztec culture, she is regarded as being eccentric even in a field populated by eccentrices. The suspects all had chocolate-related names. Rachel Munns played Lin D’Or, a Swiss chocolatier with a hard shell, never dropping her accent once. Michelle Marshall played Jelly Bean, the company secretary, as a put-upon, reliable, lovable woman, who turned out to have some dark secrets. Sarah Kendall as Dolly Mixtures played the apparent airhead blonde who has seduced the victim and is the beneficiary of his will. Is she the murderer? Parma Violet, sweet and innocent in appearance, was played well by Chloe Gleadhill; and the union representative and jobsworth, Cherry Pips, clutched her rule book and kept us all amused. The final suspect was Toby Le Rone, Lin D’Or’s rival chocolatier, played as a nonchalant Glaswegian by Jonathan Ireland. Had the competition between the Scottish and Swiss chocolate masters resulted in the murder of their employer? One - or more - of you is a murderer. Your taskis to discover who that killer is. Fortubatele the famous amateur detective Hercule McClue is on hand to assist your investigations. As the party begins you will be questioned by others. You will answer these questions based on the information in your guide. Feel free to bring your guide to the party to refer to. You don’t have to memorize your information – unless you want to, of course! While answering questions you will also be interrogating others. And Grey, I love him. I wish I had him as a best friend or even as a brother or a cousin. The way that he and Addie look out for each other is so endearing. It wraps my heart up in a big bundle of warmth and happiness and I just want to stay there.

DR SIGMUND FRAUD - The controversial psychologist whose theories have won him a small band of devoted disciples and the hatred of conventional society.The lighting and sound were efficient and well-managed, and I appreciated the incidental music which was all chocolate-themed. Thank you, particularly for introducing me to the very funny Chocolate Song by Marcus Turner, which installed itself as an earworm on my drive home. Following a stage performance in pantomime as a six foot six inch robot wearing a Darth Vader mask, she turned to writing for the stage instead of having to be on it. Lesley Gunn is allowed to live in Cambridgeshire by her two cats. She is old enough to know better. This book is fantastic. You will love it and relish in all the happy parts and have your heart wrung at the sad parts but all in all your heart will be made better for it. Jonah, wow, I just love me a man like that. I always have a huge amount of respect for a man who listens to his woman but who also isn't afraid of standing up to her either. Being independent is great but really we all need someone to lean on at least sometimes. I love that even from the first book he has this innate want and need to protect her without him even understanding why.

I liked that new information came out every round to keep the game moving along, but as in most murder mystery games, there were a couple of times when we didn't know enough about our characters to answer some of the questions we were asked before that information was even revealed to us. Billy Bonka, the foremost chocolate manufacturer in America, is found dead in his room, having apparently been killed by an exploding Easter Egg. Suspicion falls on the people around this table.MIKE BISON - The rising star of American boxing, he's in Paris for the Olympic Games, where he'e sure he'll win a gold medal. A chocolatey murder mystery for a large group with a central cast of 8 characters set at a new product launch party. Great for Valentine’s Day. A joint party is being held at Thornbury’s Chocolates to launch the new range of Symphony Chocolates and also to celebrate the 40th birthday party of Shopin Channill (That’s pronounced Show-pan) who is the daughter of Thornbury’s owner Cocoa Channill. What could possibly go wrong on such a happy night? You'll need to focus and keep in mind certain details about your characters (like age) that could be missed and may matter to the plot This game is guarantee to be drop dead fun, and that by the end of the evening one (or more) of the suspects, your friends will be caught out as the murderer! This game is for 6 - 8 players and suitable for age 13 years and over.