🥂 1920s speakeasy · New Year's Eve edition
Prohibition gin, a hot jazz band, and a countdown to midnight that someone at the party won't live to hear. Dress up, pour something bubbly (or bathtub), and solve it before the ball drops.
New Year's Eve, 1928, in a speakeasy that officially doesn't exist. Bootleggers, flappers, a crooked cop or two, and a club owner who knows everybody's secrets — until the lights cut out and a shot rings through the dark. When they come back up, the secrets start spilling. Three rounds of clues and reveals later, your guests will have everything they need to name the killer — no guessing required — because this kit was cold-solved twice and adversarially tested before it was allowed on sale. Timed for the New Year's Eve spike, and a year-round favorite for birthdays and Gatsby nights after.
Setup checklist, running timeline, casting guide, and spoiler-safe instructions — the host can play a character too.
One per character: background, secrets, costume hints (flapper dresses and fedoras encouraged, not required), per-round objectives, and scripted reveals.
Searchable/physical clues plus character-revealed clues, mapped on a clue matrix so the culprit is uniquely determined.
Invitations, name cards, suspect/evidence board, awards certificates (best actor, best detective), solution envelope, and the dramatic reveal script.
| Edition | Players | Pages | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Up to 14 players | 71 pages | $39 | Buy Standard — $39 |
| Full Cast | Up to 20 players | 78 pages | $54 | Buy Full Cast — $54 |
Full Cast adds optional expansion characters — if some don't show up, the plot still works; their absence never breaks the mystery. Not sure of your headcount? Full Cast covers every group the Standard does, plus six more.
Cold-solved twice, guaranteed fair. Two independent solvers worked this kit from the clues alone and reached the same culprit, and an adversarial pass tried to convict the strongest innocent and failed — all on the exact text that ships. And if a verified logic error ever surfaces, you get a refund or replacement and the kit is pulled and fixed for every buyer. How delivery and printing work →
Running more than one party? This kit is also in the Complete Collection bundle — all three kits in Full Cast editions for $99. A free 6-player mini-mystery is coming soon, too.