Foul Play The Manor House Mystery-Murder Mystery Card Game @damppebbles @afterdarkmurder

This is a first for me-a blog post about a card game! Many thanks to Emma Welton for the blog tour invite and the cards to play this Murder Mystery game at home.

Welcome to Edwardian England. The Lord of the Manor is dead! The servants are our lead suspects and it’s up to you to unearth the evidence, seek out the suspects and catch the culprit in order to scupper the other sleuths, and win this game of murder!

There’s more than one way to catch a killer though. So what’s it gonna be? Good Cop or Bad Cop? These two game versions come with their own set of rules and tactics to crack the case and finger your suspect, but will you use fair play or FOUL PLAY?
The Game is Afoot! Playing as detective, you’ll need to find the three evidence cards that point to a specific suspect in order to catch a killer in this crazy criminal caper. Will you uncover them in the crime scene? Could the other detectives be willing to collaborate and share their findings? Or will you resort to more tricky tactics, and plunder the proof you need to solve this crime?

History of Foul Play
What’s a Murder Mystery Events Company to do?
With a pandemic sweeping the nation and no sign of being able to perform their confounding criminal cabarets or incredible interactive investigations any time soon, they needed to come up with a plan, another way to provide mystery to the masses (and provide income to keep themselves afloat)!
Well, lockdown does strange things to people, especially actors who can’t go out and perform. So one fateful evening, Ben & Lee Cooper-Muir decided to come up with a whole new way to murder people. Keeping their cards close to their chests they plotted and schemed until Foul Play : The Murder Mystery Card Game was born. So, what to do next? This is where After Dark enters the picture. After all, Ben and Lee were two of the operators of the infamous murder mystery company. Maybe they could collaborate to bring the game to the masses. When Lockdown restrictions were eased a top-secret meeting was held with the other criminal masterminds behind After Dark, Helen Burrows, Sophie Webster & Tom Fisher and a pact was made. The game would be launched and licensed under the After Dark banner. In true After Dark style, the team burst into action and then began the beta testing, design updates, promotional planning, character changes, proofing, proofing and more proofing until finally all the kinks were ironed out, mysteries solved, and FOUL PLAY came to life!

We hope you enjoy playing it, and although we all hope to be back performing soon, WATCH THIS SPACE! Now we know we can create and produce games we’ve got a lot more fun

This is going to be a game played around many a table this Christmas when families make the most of their time together celebrating one of the strangest festive periods they will ever life through! Even if there’s just the two of you then you will still be able to play and imagine that you are living in Edwardian times and about to solve a dastardly crime!

Thankfully there are instructions included in this game and the opportunity to play one of two ways-either good cop or bad cop! Both ways are similar and we had a go at both, preferring bad cop ourselves as we found it slightly easier to understand. Be prepared for total confusion to begin with but after a while all will become clear. The Grumpy Scotsman wasn’t a big fan but he a) hates games b) hates murder mystery’s c) hates social interactions with other people. But I’m going to see my girls over Christmas and I know they will want to try out Foul Play (and possibly dress up for the occasion too!)

This would make a fabulous little stocking filler for the crime fan in your life! So happy investigating!