Murder Mystery Game: Rushmore's Revenge
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| A social for the 1979 graduating class of Rushmore’s
Beauty Academy for Women. All female cast. |
How Our Large Group Mystery Games Work: Our
games are designed for parties with 20 or more guests. Some
of your guests will take part in the mystery as the primary suspects, victim(s),
detective and killer. They'll have full
knowledge of the script, which means they'll know whodunit*. The
rest of your guests will take on the role of detective and it will be their
job to actively solve the case (by examining the evidence and questioning,
eavesdropping on and following the suspects for example). Essentially,
everyone will have a crucial, active part in the mystery.
*PLEASE NOTE: If
you don't want your prime suspects to know whodunit you can add a narrator
to your game. Have the narrator read the script as if telling a story.
Your suspects will need to act out what he or she says. You'll give them
their characters descriptions ahead of time but not the script itself.
We're slowly adapting all our mystery games to include a "know it
all version" and a "narrator version" but we're not there
yet. If we have adapted a game you'll see it noted in the description.
For ALL the details on how our games work (including
number of players, length of mystery and pre-event prep time) and answers
to your most frequently asked questions, please go to How
Our Games Are Played.
What's
included with our mystery games.
Download a script
sample.
THE STORY AND THE CHARACTERS:
ALL FEMALE CAST. This would also be fun for
an all-male cast dressed in drag.
THE PLACE: Rushmore Beauty Academy for Women, Staffordshire, England (England is optional).
THE EVENT: A social for graduating class of 1979 (you can
set it in modern day if you want).
STORY: Many changes are coming to Rushmore - an institution
where nothing has changed in its 80-year history. Men will now be admitted
to the school. Bernice Rushmore, whose family founded the school, is resigning
from the Board Of Regents and withdrawing her funding. Naturally, it’s
all very upsetting. So we advise you to watch your back. It’s difficult
to tell who is friend or foe with the future of this sacred institution at
stake.
SIX PRIMARY SUSPECTS:
- MAUDE GREENFIELD: The Chancellor
of Rushmore Beauty Academy for Women. She recently decided to admit men for
the first time in Rushmore’s
80-year history. This has some people very upset.
- JANE DODGET: Rushmore’s Dean of Students for the past seven
years. A refined “lady” who abhors the thought of men attending
Rushmore because females are, as everyone knows, intimidated and distracted
by the opposite sex.
- OLIVIA DODGET: Jane’s rather dimwitted
daughter. Olivia isn’t attending Rushmore by her choice but by her mother’s.
She dreams of moving to America and becoming a roller derby queen.
- BERNICE RUSHMORE: Chairwoman of
the board of Regents. Her family founded Rushmore in 1899, but she’s
decided to resign from the board (and take her money with her), leaving Maude
Greenfield no choice but to admit men.
- KAT OVERTON: The top student of
this year’s graduating class. Kat is trouble with a capital T, just
ask Bernice.
- GABRIELLE STEELE: Another graduating Rushmore student. Or is she?
SECONDARY SUSPECTS: Remember, EVERYONE will
be actively involved in this mystery because it will be their job to solve the
case and because you’ll be encouraging them to come in costume and in
character. Use any or all of these secondary suspects if you have “extra” cast
members you want to use or if you have some guests who want to take on a character
but not take on the full responsibility of a primary suspect. Give them
their secondary suspect instructions (included) and let them run with it. ***FOR
LARGE GROUP MYSTERIES (75 OR MORE): I'd definitely suggest
you cast your secondary suspects. During the mystery it will be the secondary
suspects' "job" to act as general support for the primary suspects.
They'll roam the room "gossiping" about the goings-in, quiet the
audience down during a main action, answer questions, bring primary suspects
to tables for questioning and make sure your guests have seen the physical clues
that have been revealed.
- Members of the board of regents who are either adamantly for or against admitting men to the school
- Other students
- Family
- Boyfriends
- Men who want to enter the academy
- Feminists who want to close the school because it’s
degrading to women.
- Protesters against males attending Rushmore.
