Parties
NYC subway mystery - going on now
Mar 22, 2007 23:17 | Permalink
Mystery Party 2006 - Camera Candidness
Feb 05, 2007 17:21 | Permalink
Ok, I imagine the only comments I'll see here are
"Where are our DVDs?!" Yes, I'm very behind. Read
here
for my excuses. The nice thing about this party is
that you can recreate the first half of it in
many different ways. The second half with
everyone all together was fun, too, but we ran
out of expensive catered food way too fast! The
other very hard part was to keep the main scoop
of the party private from those attending. But
again, it was a nice way to have lots of folks
attend who didn't want to role-play as much but
who were happy to have fun and play along in
trying to solve the mysteries. My primary
mistake was in not making the person who did the
foul deed be more aware of it! (though not as
bad as what I did in 2000) Here's the link.
Mystery Party 2005 - A Star-Crossed Kingdoms Mystery
Redux
Feb 05, 2007 17:14 | Permalink
The subtitle was "Death and the sword" as those were
the two main items of the story. The outside garden
experience was nice, but it did get cold especially
for those in tights! (guys just want a reason to wear
tights, I've determined ) This time around the clues and
puzzles were much more apparent even if they
were still difficult. This is the only one where
these two ways at solving, social interaction
and puzzle decoding, worked well for the same
outcome. Again, one person guessed correctly
which is great, but I always have lots of
thematic gifts/prizes to give as prizes for best
outfits, acting, best logic, etc. This time
while I was working on reading the submitted
solutions, the bard (Blake) did a great job
keeping everyone entertained with a story.
Kudos! Also, of note was having Terry and Jamie
in full Robin Hood and renaissance Nobility
outfits get stopped by the police on the way to
their car! Here's the link.
Mystery Party 2004 - A Mostly-Super Hero Mystery
Feb 05, 2007 17:11 | Permalink
Here's a party in which there was no problem in
alcohol consumption! Was great to see neighborhood
reaction in seeing such crazy characters walking
outside and disappearing into the "secret entrance"
that was my decorated garage. I had so many other
character possibilities, just take a super-hero and
you can easily create a farce on it (probably what
Epic Movie partially tried). Here's the link.
Mystery Party 2003 - A Star-Crossed Kingdoms Mystery
Feb 05, 2007 17:05 | Permalink
The first one of these - again held in Wichita. It
was in a pricey location (mistake #1) and held in a
large yellowish/green Egyptian room. Burt worked hard
to bring in a wet bar at the last minute which was
wonderful, but only two used it (mistake #2) - so
Arthur who worked the bar didn't make any $ that
night. I've discovered that alcohol can be hit or
miss depending on the crowd and location and
"intensity" of the story/role-playing. Link is
here.
Mystery Party 2002 - Murder at the Eaton Hotel
Feb 05, 2007 17:02 | Permalink
Anyone around that attended this one in Wichita in
the apartment building I lived in then (Eaton Place)?
Being in Wichita, had actual cold and snow to make it
seem very realistic that we were snowed in and since
there was the old Union Station nearby and the
building used to be a hotel, it felt very authentic.
Here's the link.
Mystery Party 2001 - Revenge of Clue
Feb 05, 2007 17:01 | Permalink
Again, wanted a place for comments. Especially from
those who put this on in other parts of the world!
Any other names that use the Clue/color theme? Here's
the link to this party.
Mystery Party 2000 - Purple Valentine 80s Mystery
Party
Feb 05, 2007 16:48 | Permalink
Thought it would be appropriate to have a place for
comments on each of these parties. Would be
especially cool if folks who attended (7 yrs ago!)
wanted to add comments and pics that I didn't have.
Also, has anyone tried to do anything like this one?
Here's a link to the page on it.