🥂 1920s speakeasy · New Year's Eve edition
Prohibition gin, a hot jazz band, and a countdown to midnight that someone at the party won't live to hear. Dress up, pour something bubbly (or bathtub), and solve it before the ball drops.
New Year's Eve, 1929, in a speakeasy that officially doesn't exist. Bootleggers, flappers, a crooked alderman, and a club owner who knows everybody's secrets — until the New Year toast, when he raises his own decanter and collapses, poisoned. Then the secrets start spilling. Three rounds of clues and reveals later, your guests will have everything they need to name the killer — no guessing required — because every kit here is cold-solved twice and adversarially tested before it goes on sale; this one is in that final verification pass now. Made for New Year's Eve — and a natural fit for birthdays and Gatsby nights all year round.
About the title: one shot, poured at midnight, in a dark passage — nobody is shot; the shot is the drink.
Setup checklist, running timeline, casting guide, and spoiler-safe instructions — the host can play a character too.
One per character: background, secrets, costume hints (flapper dresses and fedoras encouraged, not required), per-round objectives, and scripted reveals.
Searchable/physical clues plus character-revealed clues, mapped on a clue matrix so the culprit is uniquely determined.
Invitations, name cards, suspect/evidence board, awards certificates (best detective, best dressed, best performance), solution envelope, and the dramatic reveal script.
Sales are briefly paused while we complete a final verification pass. The free mini-mystery is available now — start with The Locked Study, free.
| Edition | Players | Pages | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 8–14 players | 71 pages | $39 | Standard — $39 |
| Full Cast | 8–20 players | 78 pages | $54 | Full Cast — $54 |
Full Cast adds optional expansion characters — if some don't show up, the plot still works; their absence never breaks the mystery. Not sure of your headcount? Full Cast covers every group the Standard does, plus six more.
Built to our cold-solve standard, guaranteed fair. Before any kit goes on sale here, 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 — all on the exact text that ships. This kit is in that final verification pass now. And if a verified logic error ever surfaces, you get a refund or replacement and the kit is pulled and fixed for every buyer. How delivery and printing work →
Running more than one party? This kit is also in the Complete Collection bundle — all three kits in Full Cast editions for $99. And try the free 6-player mini-mystery, The Locked Study.