The Merrymurder Wine Tasting Game - 9 to 12 players

Please note that this is a digital product. Your game is delivered as a set of PDF files which you can download. No physical product is delivered.

The Pinot Grigio Village Amateur Wine Making Society need to select a new chairman. And decide to hold a competition to do it. Six members enter their home made brews to be judged by the famous French wine critic Marechal Foch. But by the end of the evening Colonel Pigato, 62, the local magistrate, lies dead. And members of the society (in between tasting and scoring the various wines) have to work out which of the competitors submitted a murderous tipple...

• Lady Shiraz, 56, - Bossy newcomer and Lady of the Manor
• Sybil Chardonnay, 88, - Eccentric, Octogenarian Spinster
• Milly Merlot, 28, - Impoverished, Unmarried Mother
• Old Rollo, 58, - Sly and Sneaky Poacher
• Mac Abeo, 35, - Entrepreneurial Dairy Farmer
• Marechal Foch, 49, - Flamboyant French Wine Critic

• Character Introductions
• Round 1
• Round 2
• Script 1 - "Desert Island Diskettes"
• Round 3
• Protestations of Innocence
• Accusations
• Denouement Speech
• Murderer's Confession
  
• Wine Scoring Results

7 wines will be tasted in all.  One at the beginning of the game.  Two during Round 1.  Two during Round 2.  And two during Round 3.

Game Components

• Invitation & Background to Crime
• 8 "You are Invited to Play" Sheets
• 7 Character Booklets
• 26 Investigation Panel Questions
• 6 Clue Object Cards
• 2 Mystery Witness Roles
• Wine Bottle Labels
• Wine Scoring Sheets
• 1 Denouement Speech
• Murderer's Confession
• Colour Coded Round Flowcharts

The Round Flowcharts help the host to ensure that the game stays on track and that nobody misses their cue.

You can see the game components here at my merrymurder website.