Cold case files, escape rooms for every age and murder mystery party kits, ready to print or play on a tablet. Start with a free one.
Good to know: The MurderMysteryTime subscription includes only the online games in the Cases section. Printable PDFs are not included and are sold separately. See the online membership.
Unsolved murder mystery games in a box of documents: police reports, logs, maps and interviews. Most files come with three sealed envelopes; some arrive as one complete case file with a separate solution. 2–3 hours. The Glass Furnace is free.
$9.99A nurse goes upstairs to a closed hospital wing in the middle of the night and never comes back down. By morning, six people have a story, and every one of them sounds true.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$9.99A smashed patio door, a missing laptop, a quiet suburban kitchen. The police wrote “burglary gone wrong” and closed the file.
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$9.99Deep under a Pennsylvania hill, the night crew digs coal. Up top, one man sits alone with the books.
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$12.99An AM radio owner stays on a barrier island to broadcast through a tropical storm and dies at her console. The sheriff blames the storm, but an ex-husband, a daughter, a morning host and a developer all had a stake in her little station.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$12.99A managing partner goes out of a ninth-floor window into a snowstorm, and the police call it suicide. His firm calls it embezzlement, his wife has filed for divorce and an associate has just been told she will never make partner.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$12.99The managing editor of a family-owned Phoenix daily is found at the foot of the press-room stairs in the middle of the night, with the last edition running beside him.
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$12.99The chief of cardiology at a Baltimore teaching hospital is kept in overnight after a routine heart test and dies on the ward before dawn.
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$12.99The owner of a riverside glass plant is found dead in his own furnace room, and the coroner blames the heat. A plant up for sale, a strike vote set for Monday and five persons of interest make that hard to believe.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
Murder mystery dinner parties where every guest plays a character, each in three sizes for 4 to 20 players, and a hidden role spy party game for up to 25.
$11.99Operation Nightfall is a hidden role party game set at an embassy reception where nobody is quite who they seem. Every guest receives a secret role: most are Loyal Agents, but one or two are Double Agents who know each other and burn one agent's cover every night. Between quick-fire missions, heated debriefs and secret votes, the group must work out whom to trust before Extraction. The host reads from word-for-word scripts, so the game runs smoothly at birthdays, office parties, classrooms and youth groups.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$34.99April 1963, a sold-out dinner show at the Silver Saguaro, the newest hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Before the final curtain the hotel’s showman is found dead in his office, and nobody leaves until the killer is found. Every guest plays a star, a showgirl, a columnist or a visiting celebrity with a secret, three personal goals and clues to trade, and one of you is the murderer. One purchase gives you the same case in three sizes: Mini for 4–6 guests, Classic for 6–9 and Grand for 10–20.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$24.99October 1882, the night before the first train reaches Turquoise Wells. The whole town is dancing at the Silver Owl Saloon when the man who owns the only sweet water in the valley is found dead behind a bolted door. Every guest plays a townsperson with a secret, three personal goals and clues to trade, and one of you is the murderer. One purchase gives you the same case in three sizes: Mini for 4–6 guests, Classic for 6–9 and Grand for 10–20.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$24.99February 1978. An avalanche has closed the only road to the Silberhorn Lodge and taken the telephone line with it. During the après-ski party the lodge owner is found dead in the sauna hut, and there are two killers among the guests. Every guest plays a skier, a member of staff or a visitor with a secret, three personal goals and clues to trade. One purchase gives you the same case in three sizes: Mini for 4–6 guests, Classic for 6–9 and Grand for 10–20.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
Print-and-play escape rooms sorted by age, each with a host guide, hints and an answer key. Whiteout: Station Kestrel is free.
$12.99Prague, 1608. The Emperor’s alchemist has vanished, and he is charged with striking false silver.
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$12.99A big wind blew a dragon egg out of its nest! Little Egg Finders follow picture clues across a storybook kingdom to bring it home before hatching time.
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$12.99A great stone door slams shut, and an ancient water clock starts to run. Your team has 75 minutes to read the temple’s secrets and wake the Jade Jaguar before the flood gates close.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$12.99It is Awards Day at the Junior Detective Academy, and the famous Silver Magnifier Cup has vanished from its glass case.
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$12.99The last night of shooting. The only negative of the studio’s biggest picture has vanished from the vault, and the studio president lies dead on Stage 7.
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$12.99Closing time at the brightest arcade in town. A brand-new security system has slammed every door shut, and a power surge has wiped its exit code.
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$12.99At the stroke of midnight the great Clockwork Carousel stops, and the Ringmaster’s wind-up key is gone. The players are Junior Mechanics: fix every attraction, work out how to wind the carousel and get the carnival rolling before it has to leave town at dawn.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$12.99At sunrise, baby elephant Tumi wanders away from the herd. The children are Junior Rangers who follow the clues across the savanna and bring Tumi home before the hot midday sun.
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$12.99The generator is wrecked, the radio is dead and the last plane of the season lands in 90 minutes, with a whiteout rolling in behind it.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
Detective puzzles you solve on paper or on a tablet: an advent mystery, a name elimination puzzle, a 25-case puzzle book, a 45-minute mystery and 100 detective word searches. From $4.39.
$12.99A printable advent calendar with a murder on board. Solve one puzzle a day, cross names off a 480-name register and be left with exactly one suspect on Christmas Eve.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$5.29A gala guest list 3,000 names long, 18 clues and one killer. Cross out every guest the clues rule out until a single name is left. Colour and printer-friendly PDFs.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$5.99A compact whodunit you solve on paper in about 45 minutes: break a time lock code, decode the keeper's notebook and find out who shut him in the vault.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$4.39A lighthouse keeper vanishes in a storm. Solve 25 puzzles in 16 different types, collect one fact from each, and name the killer. Hints and full answers included.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
$9.99Ten linked cold cases, 105 word searches from 12x12 to 18x18, two missing words per grid and a hidden message in the leftover letters. Solve them all to find the one name behind every case.
One-time purchase. Not part of the subscription.
Our original printables. The Silent Dome is free. The Interval, The Last Dive and The Retirement Toast are included with an active online membership.
Free
Meridian Observatory, 3,900 metres up, mid-January. The last snow vehicle has gone down the mountain and five people are left under the dome for the night. By morning the director lies dead at the foot of the dome stairs, and it looks like a fall. One mountain, one night, no way down until morning. The file is yours to crack.
Free, no sign-up. The solution is a separate file, so nobody peeks by accident.
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Opening night at the Orpheum Theatre. Six hundred people in the house and a twenty-minute interval. When the bell rings for the second act, the director does not return to his box. He is lying in it, dead. Four people had business with him that night, and the curtain was about to rise. Print the file, gather your detectives and solve it before the final act.
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A dive boat above Azure Reef, five divers, forty minutes at nineteen metres. Four surface. They find the documentary producer on the reef floor with air still in her tank and a working buoyancy jacket. So why did she never come up? The sea keeps its secrets. This file doesn't. Dive in.
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A complete printable murder mystery party game for a small group: a retirement party, a raised glass and a host who never finishes his speech. Hand out the roles, question the guests and turn an ordinary dinner into a night your friends will talk about for years.
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Read the pages in order, take notes and fill in the verdict form at the back of the file. Do not open the solution PDF until the form is done. Plan for about 50 minutes.
Hand out the suspect pages, one per player, and let each person defend their suspect. Keep the evidence pages in the middle where everyone can see them. Argue for 30–40 minutes, then everyone votes in secret.
You can read the files on a phone, tablet or laptop. Printing is not required, but it is more fun with the documents spread out on a table.
Looking for the online cases instead? Dozens of case files are playable in your browser with no download. Browse the online cases.
Yes. The Glass Furnace (cold case file), Whiteout: Station Kestrel (escape room for adults) and The Silent Dome are free to download. No sign-up, no email.
No. The MurderMysteryTime subscription covers the online cases only. The new printable PDFs are sold separately as one-time purchases (from $4.39 for a puzzle book to $24.99 for the party kit). The Interval, The Last Dive and The Retirement Toast are the only printables included with a membership.
You need a free MurderMysteryTime account to buy. After payment you come back to the product page and the download starts. Your purchase stays in your account, so you can download it again on any device by signing in and pressing the button.
No. Every product comes in a Colour Edition that reads well on a tablet or laptop, and a Printer-Friendly Edition with light backgrounds that saves ink. Print single-sided if you print.
Cold case files are long, careful investigations for adults and teens 16+. Escape rooms are timed puzzle games sorted by age. Party kits are dinner parties where every guest plays a character, and Operation Nightfall is a hidden role spy game for big groups. Mystery puzzle books are detective puzzles for one evening or a whole month, solo or with friends.
Printables are digital downloads, delivered immediately, so they cannot be returned. If a file does not work or you were charged by mistake, contact us and we will fix it. See the refund policy.
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