Yes, to make your life easier we’ve put together a list of Venues where we have previously hosted Murder Mysteries.

This isn’t an exhaustive list yet because we’ve been hosting events for almost 20 years and this list is still quite new, but we’re continually adding to it.

Our list of Venues is also just a starting point for you. You’re welcome to use a venue that’s not on the list. We love discovering new crime scenes!

Privacy

You want a private room at your venue. This is really the only super-important thing you need to worry about with regards to venue selection. You’ll be dressed up and having fun and you don’t want to feel self conscious because you’re in an open plan dining area, and you also don’t want to disturb other guests.

Space

You just need enough space to seat all your guests; you’re not going to be running about looking for things (unless it’s a ‘Tween’ event for children aged 11 to 14 in which case there will be running about looking for things)

Seating

We’re pretty flexible and can accommodate seating at tables of 6 to 11 people. A note for informal environments; tables themselves are not needed, and so people could be seated in groups on couches, on the patio or around cocktail tables, they’ll just need to be able to arrange themselves into teams of 6 to 11 people.

Weather

If your Murder Mystery is outdoors then you’ll want a plan in case it rains. This is particularly something to think about for those summer year-end lunches in Gauteng.

Few people are gutsy enough to host events outdoors in the Cape in mid-winter, but if you are, then a plan B is a good idea 🙂

You can certainly host the Murder Mystery at your house 🙂

Most birthday Murder Mysteries are hosted at private homes in fact.

You make the booking directly with the venue.

To keep your life simple, once you have booked with them, we will liaise with the venue around the set up for your Murder Mystery.

You supply the meal and we’ll supply the fun!

You can either provide the meals yourself or arrange a menu of your choosing with your venue.

We can structure the event around any type of meal. Most frequently these meals are 3 course plated meals or buffets, but we are very flexible.

Your Murder Mystery can be a lunch or a dinner, or it can even be as a stand-alone teambuild with no meal.

Absolutely. Lot’s of corporate Murder Mysteries happen over lunch, especially teambuilding events and year end parties.

Absolutely. Most Murder Mysteries happen around a dinner/lunch table.

Yes, it will work 🙂 Speak to us about help with timing for your food.

Of course! Your teen Murder Mystery should be as simple for you to put together as possible 🙂

Your Murder Mystery can be facilitated around your meal and we’ll structure breaks into the Murder Mystery during which food can be served.

Alternately you can run your Murder Mystery before or after your meal. We still recommend a quick tea break in the middle.

Most clients choose to have their event facilitated around a meal, but this is entirely up to you.

2 to 3 hours depending on what you decide to do with your meal (if you’re having one)

An example running order for an Mystery around a 3 course meal  would be as follows:

• Guests arrive, welcome drinks, food orders placed with waiters
• Starters
• First half of the game
• Main meal
• Second half of the game
• Dessert and awards

For evening events we suggest starting between 6 and 7pm so that you finish between 9 and 10pm.

For lunch events most of our clients like to start between 10am and 2pm.

Our Detectives just need to plug in a small speaker and then they can start, so your host will get there half-an-hour before start time.

We host Murder Mystery events for as few as 6 people, and up to 300 people!

You want between 6 and 11 guests per table, and if you have more than one table then you want your tables seated as evenly as possible.

For example, if you have 21 guests then you want 1 table of 10 guests and 1 table of 11, or 3 tables of 7.

A seating plan is not required from our side.

From your side there are benefits to going with and without allocated seats.

Allocate seats if you want to mix people from different divions, geographic offices or hierarchies within in your organisation, or if you want to seat specific customers or suppliers with certain team members.

If none of the above is a requirement for you, or for smaller teams, or birthdays then let everybody sit wherever they want 🙂

Don’t worry, everything will be fine 🙂

We’ve build our shows to accommodate for life’s unexpected challenges!

Part of your decision here depends on the logistics, eg. If you are having a strategy planning session at a conference that is 2hrs out of town then it may simply not be feasible to invite partners.

But let’s assume that you’re having a social teambuild at a restaurant close to your office and you want to include partners but aren’t sure if they’ll feel comfortable.

At a Murder Mystery every person gets a character, and those characters have facilitated interactions with one another. That means that even if you don’t know anybody in the room, it’s still easy to interact with everybody, because you aren’t strangers anymore, you’re members of the same ‘Gang’.

So with the case of colleagues and partners, your colleagues will all know one another but often their partners will not know anybody. Having a Murder Mystery vs a Wine Tasting or going to the theatre or ten-pin bowling etc is a great way to include partners without the pressure of small talk and lots of new social interactions.