This is a round-up of the best 30s themed mystery party games. Including four 1930s boxed party game kits. And one scripted mystery game book. From dinner party games. To games for a larger group of guests. Plsu for more top-rated decade-themed games and kits, see my posts included below.
5 Top 1930s Party Games
1. Murder Mystery: The Casino Killers
From: Paul Lamond Games | Number of roles: 6 to 8 players | Age rating: Teen and up | Format available: Dinner Party Game Boxed Kit including DVD | Setting: 1934, Los Angeles.
Description: A classic Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe murder mystery dinner party game. In the city of Angels, even the angels have dirty faces. To survive on these mean streets, a guy has to be tough, and a dame has to be tougher. Lou Harger thought he was a tough guy, thought he could handle himself. He was wrong, dead wrong, and now he’s just dead… Murdered… and the $20,000 that he won on the roulette table is missing. Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe has been investigating, and he’s summoned together the principal suspects in his enquiries. One, or more, of the guests at dinner is a killer. It’s your task to find out who the guilty party is before it’s too late. [Source: Amazon]
*Available to buy from UK Amazon.
You might also like: Paul Lamond Games on Amazon. And 5 Top New Casino Theme Party Ideas for Adults.
2. Murder On The Petulant Express
From: Jack Pachuta | For: 8 to 80 players. With 8 main character roles | Format available: Mystery Game Book | Setting: 1937, on-board a luxury steam train!
Description: Set in 1937 aboard the Petulant Express, a luxury train from New York City to Chicago. An exclusive mode of transport that only the rich and famous can afford! Solve the mystery of who murdered industrialist Peter Petulant aboard his train, the Petulant Express. [Source: Amazon]
For more details of this classic mystery game: Murder On The Petulant Express – 1930s Mystery Game for a Large Group.
*Murder On The Petulant Express mystery game kit is available from UK Amazon and US Amazon.
3. Murder on a Train
From: Murder Mystery Flexi Party | Number of players: 6 to 14 roles. 7 male and 7 female characters | Age rating: 18+ | Format available: Murder Mystery Dinner Party Game includes optional music CD | Setting: 1933, Aboard the Simpleton-Orient Express.
Description: Winter 1933, somewhere near the Austrian border. Passengers aboard the Simpleton-Orient Express experience a murder that will change their lives forever! But who killed mysterious stranger John Doe? …. [Source: Amazon]
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
You might also like: Flexi Party Mystery Games in a Tin.
4. Midnight Malice
From: Red Herring Games | Number of roles/players: 6 (UK) or 12 (US) | Age rating: 18+ | Format available: Dinner Party Game Boxed Kit including CD | Setting: 1939, on a grand estate.
Description: It is a dark and murky night in 1939. Count and Countess Nobbinovich are hosting their annual midnight supper at their grand estate on Nobbin Hill. To everyone’s shock, their cook, Borstchta Tvarski, is found dead in the kitchen. All is not what it seems to be… Can you help Inspector Claude Cluesnot solve this quandary and point the finger at one of the illustrious suspects before the food or the blood is cold? This is one mystery that could be a case of… Midnight Malice! [Source: Amazon]
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
5. Murder at Merkister Hall
From: Red Herring Games | Number of roles: 12 (UK) or 10 (US) | Age rating: 13 year olds and up | Format available: Dinner Party Game Boxed Kit including CD | Setting: 1930s, a stately home.
Description: It’s the 1930s. The great depression is over, the pound is competing with the dollar on the open exchange and there is a rise in business of all shapes at sizes. Keen to share their good fortune with others, the Balderdashes regularly play host for sumptuous dinner parties at their stately home which involve nothing but the best wines, fine cuisine and traditional after dinner entertainment. This evening was to be no exception… The guests had all arrived as planned and with the food ready to be served in the kitchens the party only lacked one thing, namely the butler Leversham who has been discovered dead, in the Billiard room! [Source: Amazon]
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
You might also like: Red Herring Dinner Party Games on UK/US Amazon.
And also 5 Top New Casino Theme Party Ideas for Adults.
Top-Rated Casino Night Kit
CONTENTS – 1 Roulette wheel, 200 Poker Chips, Dealer Chip, Roulette Game Mat, Poker Game Mat, Blackjack Game Mat, Play Money, 2 Roulette Balls, Rules Booklet, 2 Decks of Playing Cards, Croupier Stick and Croupier Bow Tie.
*Casino kit available from Amazon US and Amazon UK
Check out my latest Top Mystery Board Games – New Releases and Reviews.
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