The murder mystery parties here on Great Murder Mystery Games are for domestic (ie, home) use only.
They're aimed at people hosting parties for their friends and families, and doing it in their homes.
If you do want to charge an entry fee to your party, then things are a little different: you will need a commercial licence.
I can think of several occasions when you might want a commercial licence.
I've seen pubs, hotels and restaurants advertise murder mystery nights - and it's this kind of arrangement where a commercial licence is needed.
Creating a themed party night is rather outside my field of expertise, but the advantages of getting a commercial licence for one of the parties on Great Murder Mystery Games is that you can get an in-house member of staff to organise it.
(Failing that, you need to get somebody in to organise it for you - more on that below.)
If you do decide to go this route, I suggest you have a look at my tips for hosting.
While I've written them with a domestic market in mind, they apply equally to a commercial event.
My tips include:
Click here to read my tips for hosting murder mystery games.
Or you may find that you really enjoy hosting murder mystery parties and want to hire out your services to other people.
There are all sorts of things that you will need to consider
Plus, of course, the type of murder mystery game you want to host.
(If it was me, I'd be doing the interactive ones - but I doubt that's a surprise to anyone reading this!)
By the way, if you run murder mystery games professionally and would like me to include you in my list of murder mystery party organisers (click here), please contact me and we can discuss it further.
Events raising money for charity are slightly different again.
I've always found the publishers very happy to allow their games to be used for charity work (although you must ask first).
I should point out that the publishers tend to be a bit wary of giving their games out for free for charity work.
Instead you should regard the cost of the game as part of the cost of hosting the event.
(And it's likely that the cost of the game will be one of the smaller costs - food and hiring the venue may well be more expensive.)
I've written on charity events before - click here to read Fund Raiser Ideas.
Commercial licences are available from all the publishers, but they all have slightly different terms and conditions.
You can either contact them yourself, or if you let me know which games you are interested in then I can contact them on your behalf.
Reunion with Death - a lockdown murder mystery for 6-9 players played using online video chat. Click here for more details.
And click here for online murder mystery party tips!
Here's my suggested quick route through the site:
Step 1 - Go to Choosing a Game to choose the game that suits your party best.
Step 2 - Review the Tips for Hosts for helpful advice.
Step 3 - If you want to keep up to date with the latest murder mystery game news, click on my What's New page.
Step 4 - Once you've had your party - tell me how it went! Click here to tell me your murder mystery party story.
Feb 17, 21 02:43 PM
I'd like to host a murder mystery game as an office team building...all women, not much time for elaborate costumes, 22 of us. Would that work and which
Sep 29, 20 12:56 PM
My experience of simultaneously hosting and playing Death in Venice
Sep 09, 20 02:06 PM
Can I still host A Speakeasy Murder with 12 guests? And just delete three non-essential characters? My response: A Speakeasy Murder is designed for 15-32
Comments
Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.