Had a great mystery party this time overlooking downtown on top of the Old Market Lofts (thanks, Mike!). I’ve got lots of pictures and more in the mystery party section of my website and you can see all of the wonderful pics Chris Tierney took on my old school web site as well. This is the best place to leave comments, though.

I haven’t posted in many months - but so much to tell! Hence why there are lots of new pictures up but no blog posts. I’ve been using Facebook a lot to voice my thoughts and updates. Had a great mystery party once again at the zoo. I’ve got lots of pictures and more in the mystery party section of my website and you can see all of the wonderful pics Chris Tierney took on my old school web site as well.

Thanks again to everyone who made this party such a blast! Wasn’t my best story-line as a lot was written at the last minute since during my fall travels I had much less time to write as I had planned, but the location, and participation made it one of the more memorable parties. Leave comments about this party here and view all of the other details including pictures from the link located here.

This blog entry is a month overdue. Here's where people who attended can post comments and questions about it. Especially if you want to try and put it on somewhere else. It was held at the UNMC Alumni House and had 35 attend in costume on a cold and rainy October evening - maybe perfect for such a dire event.

This one isn't mine, but seems like a cool way to spend an hour while in NYC! Here's the web site for the folks hosting this mystery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.