Murder at Christmas - Team Challenge

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The Challenge

To solve the clues, eliminate suspects, weapons and locations and discover the solution to the murder of Ebenezer Grinch in the village of Yoole.

Full Details

Guests will be split into four teams and each team will be given one of the four murder mystery challenges. These challenges are identified by colour (red, blue, green and yellow). Although all 4 challenges involve solving the murder of Ebenezer Grinch, each challenge has a different solution and a different set of clues. This means teams cannot cheat by overhearing the deductions of other teams!

Each team will receive a sheet showing possible suspects, weapons and locations and a pack of 10 clues. They will also receive instructions on how to solve the case.

There are 8 Christmas exhibits. These are:

• A Christmas Tree
• An Advent Calendar
• A Mince Pie Recipe
• Santa's planned route through Europe
• A Nativity Painting
• An illustrated "Twelve Days of Christmas"
• Little Billy's Letter to Santa
• Christmas Cards waiting to be posted

These will be put up on display around the party location. All four teams will be using the exhibits to help them solve their specific challenge.

By using the clues and combining information from the Christmas exhibits, each team will be able to eliminate various suspects, weapons and locations. If they do this correctly they will eventually be left with just the murderer, the murder weapon and the murder location.

The party host will have the solutions to each of the 4 challenges. Having investigated the crime each team will fill out a solution sheet and bring this to the party host. The team can then be given their specific solution so they can see if they correctly solved the case. To make the challenge more competitive a prize can be offered to the first team to correctly identify their solution.