This post includes 5 top 60s murder mystery games including dinner party boxed kits, escape room board and a printable mystery-solving game. For 6 to 12 players, teens and adults. Available from UK and US Amazon.
For more decade themed murder mystery party kits and printables, see my posts listed below.
60s Murder Mystery Game Kits
This list of 5 sixties themed murder mystery games includes 3 boxed dinner party games and the fourth game to print out at home.
1. Murder at the Grand Hotel
From: Culinario Mortale | Number of Players: 6-8 | Age rating: 16+ | Format: Boxed Dinner Party Game | Setting: Ceremonial Opening of the New York Grand Hotel, 1962.
Plot: The opening speeches were full of praise, and the guests ate and drank copious amounts from the five-course menu. The evening had all the hallmarks of an incredible coming-together of American high society. Once the official part of the event was over, the guests gathered for an exuberant cocktail party at the longest hotel bar in the entire city. But the evening took a tragic turn when the young actress Monique Moreau was found dead in the bathtub of her hotel suite late in the evening… [Source: Amazon]
*Murder at the Grand Hotel available from UK Amazon.
More dinner party boxed game kits in this series: Culinario Mortale Game List.
2. The Tragical Mystery Tour
From: Decipher | Number of Players: 8 | Age rating: 17+ | Format: Dinner Party Boxed Game Kit | Setting: Hippy Cross-Country Road Trip.
Plot: The Tragical Mystery Tour finds you among the tuned-in and turned on, off on a cross-country road trip to Beefstock with one of the hippest rock singers of all time. While youre hanging out at her love pad,in an explosion rocks the house. The psychedelic bus has been turned to dust with someone on board.
As you assume the role of one of these colorful characters and solve the mystery, you and your seven dinner guests will enjoy hours of light-hearted suspicion and suspense. Bring the game to life with costumes, props and theatrical flair for a party everybody will be dying to attend! [Source: Amazon]
*The Tragical Mystery Tour available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.
3. The Champagne Murders (Inspector McClue Game).
From: Murder a la Carte | Number of Players: 8 to 10 | Age rating: Teen+ | Format: Boxed Game Kit | Setting: 1967 Swinging London.
Plot: In The Champagne Murders it’s July 1967, the Summer of Love, and London still swings like a pendulum. In the Chelsea home of Lord Michael Jagged, a select group of fashionable young things have spent the weekend drinking champagne and partying.
As the guests gather for dinner on Sunday evening, however, they are met not by their host but by Scotland Yard detective Austin McClue, who brings them shocking news: Lord Jagged has been murdered! And they are the principal suspects in the policeman’s enquiries! Your task is to help McClue catch the killer. Or to avoid being caught…! [Source: Amazon]
*The Champagne Murders available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.
More dinner party boxed game kits in this series: Inspector McClue/Murder a la Carte Games on UK and US Amazon.
4. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
From: Best Murder Games | Number of Players: 10-12 | Age rating: 13+ | Format: USB loaded with printable files | Setting: Party at a Top 60s Pop Group’s Country Estate.
Plot: It’s the swinging 60’s. The Weevils, a pop group with a new sound has taken the world by storm, their records selling by the million. Following a successful international tour, the Weevils return to their English country estate to finish their much anticipated new album. A lot is riding on this record, some are saying the Weevils are past their prime, other groups have taken their place at the cutting edge of the music industry. Things have been going well but then disaster…..
After a party to celebrate their latest single reaching number one in the charts, guest guitarist Jimi Bendix is discovered dead in his room, a bloodied hammer by his side. One of the party-goers must have done the deed. But who, and why? One thing is clear. If the police are called in the ensuing scandal will probably be the end of the Weevils. It’s up to you, the party goers, to take part in an investigation and decide which of you murdered Jimi Bendix and why. Save the Weevils! [Source: Amazon]
*Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! available from UK Amazon.
5. Break in™ Alcatraz
From: PlayMonster | Number of Players: 1 to 6 | Age rating: 10+ | Difficulty rating: 3/4.
Plot: The night of the June 11, 1962 marks the only successful break out from Alcatraz. No one has ever figured out how those men made their way off of the island because no one ever knew their secret: There was an outside man…
As the “outside man” you’ll be breaking into Alcatraz to help a few of your buddies escape the inescapable prison. You need to break into the inescapable prison known as ‘The Rock’…
Check out my post for more details of this unique escape game: Alcatraz Escape Board Game for Tweens.
*Break In & Break Out Game – Alcatraz available from Adventuretown Toy Emporium.
For more era and decade themed murder mystery kits: Medieval | Wild West | Victorian | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s.
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