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Elevate Game Night with a Murder Mystery Box!

Want to feel like you have stepped into an episode of your favorite crime or mystery tv show? Enjoy immersive scenarios, intriguing characters, and original compelling stories with your friends and family! Every month subscribers receive a new standalone investigation with everything needed to close the case. Our mysteries blend the puzzle elements of escape rooms with the investigations of a murder mystery. If you need a box sooner than our shipping policy provides, please contact us directly.
  • Solve the mysteries alone or with a group of up to 4 people. We recommend our mysteries for ages 13+. Parental discretion is advised since we are a murder mystery company.
  • Standalone mysteries that don’t require other boxes to complete. Start and stop each mystery at any point. There is no time component.
  • Interactive, online components that bring each story to life. (Requires a QR code reader on a smartphone, tablet or laptop and internet access)
  • Great gift for friends and family who love mysteries and solving puzzles!
  • *****Domestic Shipping is included in the product rates. CA and UK subscribers: 1. Shipping rates applied at checkout. If you purchase a 3,6, or 12-month subscription, shipping for all months of the plan will be charged at checkout.

Current Box from Deadbolt Mystery Society

The Unexcused Absence
The Unexcused Absence

Classes at the elite private school Hillview Academy are no joke. With a major grade for a group project due today, you are already nervous. Your anxiety doubles when you realize that your group partner and friend has gone missing while investigating a scoop for the school paper. As you uncover more secrets at Hillview Academy, you realize there might be more at stake than just your grade. Will you find your friend in time and explain the Unexcused Absence?


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Past Boxes from Deadbolt Mystery Society

Hunt for the Final Girl
Hunt for the Final Girl

Several young women wake up in the middle of the woods with no memory of how they got there. All of them are Final Girls, having endured some sort of lethal trial in their lives that forced them to fight and emerge victorious. However, the biggest test any of them have ever been faced with is about to begin. Each of them is about to become part of a deadly game where only one will live to see another sunrise. Who will survive the Hunt for the Final Girl?

Can You Dig It?
Can You Dig It?

When an anonymous phone tip leads the Valley Falls Police Department to the local landfill, they discover the buried remains of a loan shark missing since the late 1970's. You have been enlisted to consult on the case. So, put on your denim shirt, bell-bottom pants, platform shoes, and go back to the era of disco, roller skating, and shag carpeting. It's time to serve up some groovy justice. Can you dig it?

Death of a Fool
Death of a Fool

A fun, peaceful day at the Valley Falls Renaissance Festival takes a dark turn when a court jester is found dead. Now, it’s up to you to bring some modern justice to this medieval setting. With a murdered fool and a killer at large, this is no laughing matter. So, put on your chain mail, grab yourself a festival snack and a cup of ale, and maybe watch a bit of jousting. It's time to solve the Death of a Fool.

The Mother Goose Murders
The Mother Goose Murders

Murderers are a dime a dozen in Valley Falls. But that doesn't keep the newest killer on the scene from showing a sense of ambition and flair. For the most recent rash of murders, the victims’ bodies all share a bizarre and disturbing characteristic: each of them has been dressed up as a classic nursery rhyme character and tagged with a note signed, “Mother Goose.” Can you crack the strange case of the Mother Goose Murders?

To Die For
To Die For

La Lumière is an award-winning restaurant. It's nearly impossible to get a reservation unless you know someone or have the right amount of money. Which is why it's completely unexpected when a guest dies during their meal. Although the death is ruled as natural causes, there are serious doubts. Can you peel back La Lumière’s golden veneer and expose the rot and darkness beneath? Come to La Lumière, where the food is so good it’s to die for!

Curse of the Pharaoh
Curse of the Pharaoh

The Valley Falls Museum has a new traveling exhibit entitled, "The Pharaohs of Egypt." While the exhibit has brought a lot of interest and visitors, it has also brought its share of trouble. Ever since the Egyptian exhibit arrived, the museum has had a series of accidents and mishaps that have led some to think the whole thing is cursed. The museum director, Hubert Henderson, has asked you to look into what is going on, and you happily take the job.

The SITCOM Mystery
The SITCOM Mystery

Presto!
Presto!

Magicians are known for making people disappear, but in most cases, a skilled master of illusion can also make them reappear with no harm done. The Magician has suddenly burst on to the scene in Valley Falls and has been making people disappear one day and then reappear the next day as pale, lifeless corpses. Perhaps you can perform a trick of your own, investigate the case, wave your hands wildly, and say the word, “Presto!” right before unveiling The Magician!

The Sherlock Conundrum
The Sherlock Conundrum

You have just received an exclusive invitation to The Scarlet Study, a members-only club dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. When you arrive, the doorman hands you a shoebox.  You open it, expecting a welcome gift of some sort.  What you are greeted with instead, is a severed foot with a note attached to it that says, “The Game.”  The game, in this case, is literally a foot and will lead you on an investigation that includes details from Sherlock Holmes’ most memorable cases.

Night at the Castle
Night at the Castle

Sometimes a detective just needs to relax, and what better place to do that than a castle-turned-hotel? You are excited to stay in a place with so much history. But, your vacation is cut short when history repeats itself. Stories tell of a Mad Knight killing castle inhabitants with an axe more than 500 years ago, and now one of the guests is found in his room, murdered by an axe. Can you solve this murder by spending a Night at the Castle?

Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt

The citizens of Valley Falls are being killed off one by one by someone calling themselves the Witchfinder. Can you determine who is at the head of this Witch Hunt before others are unjustly executed for crimes they didn't commit?

Halftime Homicide
Halftime Homicide

Valley Falls is known for a few things: an abnormally high murder rate, an overwhelming number of secrets, and winning at high school football. The Druids are up by seven points at halftime. Coach Bobby McCall is right in the middle of a fiery speech about winning when he clutches his heart, collapses, and utters the words "I was murdered." Examine all the secrets beneath the Friday Night Lights to see what is revealed and discover who committed this Halftime Homicide.


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