Free · 6 players · ~40 minutes · 30 pages
A retired book dealer. A study bolted from the inside. Six guests, and one of them is lying. A complete mini-mystery — free, because the best way to judge a mystery kit is to play one. It is built to the same cold-solve standard as our full kits: two independent solvers work it from the clues alone and must reach the same culprit, and an adversarial pass must fail to convict the strongest innocent suspect. The Locked Study has passed all of it — cold-solved twice and adversarially tested on the exact text you'll download.
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The Locked Study is a complete, solvable game with a solution that holds up — built to the same standard as our full kits: a full logic matrix, two cold-solve passes, and an adversarial pass before release, scaled down to about 40 minutes.
Spoiler-safe setup and running instructions — the host can take one of the six characters and investigate alongside the guests.
One per player: who you are, what you're hiding, and what you reveal in each round.
Two rounds of clue cards and scripted reveals build the case piece by piece — the culprit is earned from the clues, never guessed.
Name cards, a suspect board, and accusation slips, all designed ink-light and black-and-white friendly for home printers.
The answer stays sealed until the accusation moment, then the reveal script walks the room through how every clue pointed there.
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Print the 30 pages, hand out the six booklets, and run a full mystery night in about 40 minutes.
The full kits run about 2 hours 15 minutes each (A Shot in the Dark runs 1½–3 hours) for up to 14 or 20 players, with the same clue standard in a full-length investigation: Murder at the Mistletoe Gala (Christmas gala), A Shot in the Dark (1920s speakeasy, New Year's Eve), and Murder at the Reunion (1980s reunion) — Standard $39, Full Cast $54, or the Complete Collection bundle with all three Full Cast editions for $99.