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The Museum of Great Falls* needs your help!
The famous Midnight Crown, an heirloom of a rich aristocratic family, was stolen from a museum in "Great Falls"* during the Long Night of Museums and a mysterious something was left behind. A construct of intrigue and secrets is knitted around a supposedly simple burglary. Be there live to support the Inspector a second time and catch those responsible in the act. Throw yourself headlong into an exciting crime case and find your way to the solution using multimedia. The village also has a few skeletons in its cupboard...
One thing is clear: this calls for true pros. To find the culprit, you will need to examine all the documents carefully, study the fingerprints, check the alibis and do some research. A real detective will follow any scent to uncover the mystery. Can you think creatively enough? No limits are imposed on your creativity during your investigations.
As a team, you will need to analyse letters, interpret the police interviews of various suspects, make telephone calls and even do some research on the Internet. Your approach to finding a solution is guaranteed to be multidimensional. Study the fingerprints, collect all the information on your large poster, discuss the alibis and motives. For your research during the investigation, you will need internet access and a phone with which you can receive text messages. It is also helpful (but not absolutely necessary) if you have a laptop or tablet at hand. Mobile phones are also allowed!
You should allow approx. 1.5-3 hours for the murder mystery game. However, you can also put it aside one evening and continue the next day.
You will all work together in a team, rather than playing against one another. The game is suitable for people aged 14 and over. It is too complex for a group of younger children. In a family, however, younger children can also make a contribution and assist with the detective work.
Languages
This game is available in:
German: Das Diadem der Madonna
British: The Midnight Crown
American: The Midnight Crown
French: Le Diadème d’Amaryllis
Italian: Il Diadema di Mezzanotte
Dutch: De Diadeem van de Madonna
Spanish: La Diadema Escarlata
Canadian: The Midnight Crown (coming soon)
Australian: The Midnight Crown (coming soon)
- beginner-friendly and accessible
- fun initial document exploration
- novel digital integration that adds variety
- production value and clear pacing
- suitable as a gift or family activity
- may feel generic for seasoned players
- doesn't push boundaries as much as other murder mystery games
- localization differences can cause confusion
- larger player counts reduce individual involvement
- regional voice/clue mismatches can be confusing
- crime investigation and deduction
- Art museum theft, contemporary setting
- document-driven with online/digital clue components
- Murder on the Moon
- Murder in Prague
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- clue synthesis — Pieces of information are connected to solve questions
- Deduction — Players examine a collection of documents to gather clues
- Digital integration — Online sites and websites provide additional clues and twists
- document search — Players examine a collection of documents to gather clues
- four-question solve — Game provides four questions to resolve the case
- Hidden Movement — Narrative mechanism to follow suspect movements
- tracking suspects on a map — Narrative mechanism to follow suspect movements
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Really nice little kind of Sunday evening activity.
- Recommend it. But definitely it's for the more lighter beginnery area of murder mystery.
- Gift family.
- There’s a lot of documents you can look through, so with more people it becomes diluted.
- I 100% agree.
- It was a very smooth ride to the conclusion.
- We nailed this in an hour and 15 minutes.
- There was no rough dead ends. There was no annoyance. It was all kind of on rails.