Christmas Party Ideas

Christmas is a time for friends and families, for celebrations - and of course for throwing parties.

And what better way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas than with a murder mystery party?

Christmas party idea

These murder mystery games have either a Christmas theme, or can easily be adapted to a Christmas theme.

The Night before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

The Night before Christmas is for 12 to 15 guest, plus one host.

The Night before Christmas is set at a glamorous 1948 American cocktail party on Christmas Eve, and one of the valets has been murdered!

Click here to learn more about The Night Before Christmas.

Christmas Lies

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Set in the modern day, Christmas Lies takes place during the Christmas-theme party for Christmas Confidential, a fabulously successful holiday movie.

However, all is not well as the star, Tom Speed has died suddenly in a car crash last night.

Was it foul play? (Go on - take a guess...)

Christmas Lies is for 16 to 32 guests (plus the host).

Click here to learn more about Christmas Lies.

snow business

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Snow Business is for 10 to 12 guests, plus the host.

Two families are on a skiing holiday in the French Alps - but all is not well as feuds are brewing and murder is in the air.

Although Snow Business isn't specifically a Christmas party, it would be easy to give it a festive theme - just set it at Christmas!

Click here to learn more about Snow Business.

Christmas capers

Christmas Capers is set in the North Pole at Santa's workshop.

It is time for a new Santa. Santa has his succession plan in place - normally the chief gift wrapper is promoted to Santa when the time is right. But some aren't happy with this arrangement. Unhappy enough to kill?

Christmas Capers is for 4-120 players (there are different versions).

Click here to go to the Murder Mystery USA site and learn more about Christmas Capers.

Other ideas for a christmas party

These games could easily be set at Christmas.

A SPeakeasy Murder

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A Speakeasy Murder is a 1920s gangster murder mystery game for 15-32 guests.

Set at Fat Stan's Speakeasy, poor Scabface Martins has been gunned down by a masked hoodlum in a long black cloak. But who did it?

Click here to learn more about A Speakeasy Murder.

bludgeoned on broadway

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Bludgeoned on Broadway is a 1940s murder mystery game for 8-13 guests.

The Arlington Theater's new Broadway play, Olympian Days, encounters trouble as its leading actor is murdered!

Click here to learn more about Bludgeoned on Broadway.

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