💘 Valentine's Day · Vineyard gala
A candlelit vineyard ball, the traditional Sweetheart Toast — and a host who won't make it to the first dance. A date-night mystery made for a couples' night in with friends: everyone plays a character, nobody just watches.
Players: 8 to 14 with the Standard edition, 8 to 20 with Full Cast — and the host can play too.
Play time: about 2 hours 15 minutes.
What you get: a printable PDF kit — a spoiler-safe host guide, one character booklet per character, clue cards for a 3-round clue system, and party printables (invitations, name cards, a suspect/evidence board, awards certificates, and a solution envelope with a reveal script).
Printing: print it at home — the pages are ink-light and black-and-white friendly.
Delivery: checkout is handled by Stripe, and your personal download link arrives by email within seconds.
Price: $39 Standard · $54 Full Cast — or all four kits in Full Cast editions in the Complete Collection bundle for $129.
Content note: PG-13 themes — a death at a party and an old friendship betrayed. Nothing graphic, no gore.
Valentine's night at Rosemont Vineyard: the annual Sweethearts' Gala, a charity ball of candlelight, dancing, and the estate's traditional Sweetheart Toast. Then the host himself — vineyard owner Lawrence Hart — collapses in front of the whole room, moments after the toast, and the most romantic night of the year becomes an investigation. Sweethearts, old friends, and vineyard staff all had their reasons to smile at him tonight — and at least one had a reason not to. Over three rounds of clues, gossip, and scripted reveals, your guests piece together who did it — and the answer is genuinely deducible, because this kit was cold-solved twice before it was allowed on sale.
Setup checklist, running timeline, casting guide (who should play whom), and spoiler-safe instructions — the host can play a character too.
One per character: background, secrets, costume hints, per-round objectives, and scripted reveals.
Searchable/physical clues plus character-revealed clues, all mapped on a clue matrix so the culprit is uniquely determined.
Invitations, name cards, suspect/evidence board, awards certificates (best actor, best detective), solution envelope, and the dramatic reveal script.
| Edition | Players | Pages | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 8–14 players | 84 pages | $39 | Buy Standard — $39 |
| Full Cast | 8–20 players | 93 pages | $54 | Buy 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.
Cold-solved twice, guaranteed fair. Two independent solvers worked this kit from the clues alone and reached the same culprit, and an adversarial pass tried to convict the strongest innocent and failed — all on the exact text that ships. 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 four kits in Full Cast editions for $129. And try the free 6-player mini-mystery, The Locked Study.