Free · 6 players · ~20 minutes · 28 pages
A professor. A study locked from the inside. Six guests, one of whom is lying about the key. A complete mini-mystery — free, because the best way to judge a mystery kit is to play one. It passed the same cold-solve standard as our full kits: two independent solvers worked it from the clues alone and reached the same culprit, and an adversarial pass tried to convict the strongest innocent suspect and failed.
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The Locked Study is a complete, solvable game with a solution that holds up — the same logic matrix, two cold-solve passes, and adversarial pass as our full kits, scaled down to about 20 minutes.
Spoiler-safe setup and running instructions — the host can take one of the six characters and investigate alongside the guests.
One per player: who you are, what you're hiding, and what you reveal in each round.
Two rounds of clue cards and scripted reveals build the case piece by piece — the culprit is earned from the clues, never guessed.
Name cards, a suspect board, and accusation slips, all designed ink-light and black-and-white friendly for home printers.
The answer stays sealed until the accusation moment, then the reveal script walks the room through how every clue pointed there.
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Print the 28 pages, hand out the six booklets, and run a full mystery night in about 20 minutes.
The full kits run 1.5–3 hours for up to 14 or 20 players, with the same clue standard in a full-length investigation — and all three are on sale now: Murder at the Mistletoe Gala (Christmas gala), A Shot in the Dark (1920s speakeasy, New Year's Eve), and Murder at the Reunion (1980s reunion) — Standard $39, Full Cast $54, or the Complete Collection bundle with all three Full Cast editions for $99.