Give Your Team a Year-End Function They’ll Thank You for Choosing.
Choose something different from the usual restaurant outing: a professionally facilitated murder mystery that gets everyone laughing, interacting and involved.
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Your Team Steps Into the Game
Over about 2½-3 hours, our trained Murder Mystery Detectives lead your team through a mystery packed with colourful characters, outrageous accusations and suspicious alibis. You are the suspects. You share clues, question one another and work together to answer the big question: who did it?
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1 - GET INTO CHARACTER WITH OUR COSTUMES AND PROPS
Dress up together at the event and see a new side of your colleagues – no need to arrive dressed up.
2 - FIND YOUR CHARACTER IN OUR APP
Draw a number from the hat, then use our easy-to-follow app to find out who you’ll play.
3 - SOLVE THE MYSTERY TOGETHER
Our app gives you the scripts, clues and alibis to question each other, while your host guides you through the mystery.
4 - WRITE DOWN WHO YOU THINK DID IT
Make your guess, then see who solved the case as we reveal the murderer and bring out the awards.
A Meal Gets Everyone Together. A Murder Mystery Builds Interaction Into Your Celebration.
Keep the meal. Add characters, clues and a shared experience that gets everyone talking and taking part.
An Evening Where The Same Groups Have The Same Conversations
- Everyone eats and the event is over.
- Not everyone gets involved.
- It feels like just another normal dinner.
A Year-End Function Where Everyone Gets Involved
- Different colleagues have a reason to talk.
- Everyone has a part to play.
- The meal becomes part of a fun, shared experience.
HOW WE MAKE ORGANISING EASIER
We Handle the Planning and Hosting of Your Murder Mystery – Helping You Create the Year-End Experience You Want
WE PREPARE YOUR GUESTS
We provide invitations with RSVP links and clear guest instructions, so you don’t have to create the communication from scratch. Responses are collected in a form you can access.
WE PREPARE AND COORDINATE THE MYSTERY
Our app provides the roles, scripts, clues and alibis, and we supply the costumes and props included in your chosen package. Once your venue is booked, we communicate directly with the venue about the murder-mystery requirements.
WE HOST THE ENTERTAINMENT
Our professionally trained facilitator runs the entertainment and guides guests through the story. While we run the show, you get to take part and enjoy the experience with your team.
You don’t need to plan anything extra
We’ll host the event at your favourite restaurant or at your office.
If there’s enough space to sit together, then there’s enough space to play the game.
When choosing a venue…
Just book a venue with a private area for your team.
- We’ll come to any venue of your choice.
- We’ll arrange the timing and seating with your venue.
- We’ll bring everything you need to play the game.
Call Us to Plan the Right Experience for Your Team.
Talk to one of our Detectives and ask all the questions you want!
“It was fantastic. We had a lot of fun. One of the good things that we felt was that the clothes were already here. So people weren’t too scared to dress up because once they saw everyone else dressing up, they went berserk… It was a lovely afternoon and we thoroughly enjoyed it.”
A Game Built for Different Kinds of People
After 27 years of Murder Mysteries, we’ve heard just about every version of “Will this work for my team?” Here are some questions that come up most.
My group is quite small.
Small groups work really well. We can run a Murder Mystery for as few as six people, and you still get one of our Detectives to guide your team through the game.
With everyone gathered around one table, it becomes a fun, close-knit mystery where everyone gets involved.
My group is really big.
Big groups are no problem – we run events for up to 300 people. Everyone is still a character in the story, with clues shared between tables so the whole room feels part of one big game.
You get the buzz of a big event while still keeping the conversation, teamwork and suspicious glances that make it fun.
My team has a big mix of ages.
That’s often where the fun starts.
Once everyone has a character and costume, the usual age barriers begin to disappear – it’s much easier to laugh with your serious senior manager when they’re wearing a pink wig and playing a supermodel.
The game gives different generations an easy reason to laugh and talk together.
Do people need to be physically active?
No running, races or obstacle courses are involved.
There’s some movement while dressing up, sharing clues or making accusations, so you’re not stuck in your seat for the whole event.
But the action happens together in one room – the game is designed to get people talking, not running.
What if some people are shy?
Remember impromptu speech day at school? It was scary, so we don’t do that. Your character, accusations and clues are provided through our app, so nobody has to invent a performance on the spot.
Everyone gets something specific to say and a reason to speak to someone else, which takes the pressure off.
What if some people don’t want to dress up?
That is exactly why we don’t ask people to arrive in costume. Everyone chooses characters and dresses up together as part of the event, so nobody has to walk in wondering if they’ve gone too far.
Once you look around and see everyone getting a little ridiculous together, it suddenly feels much easier to join in.
Tell us what you are planning
Call the SAMM team
Call or WhatsApp us to talk through your group, ask questions or check your preferred date.
Events hosted any day of the week.
We reply or call back within 24 hours.