{"id":695,"date":"2018-11-08T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:46:15","slug":"what-are-some-of-the-basics-of-a-murder-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"What are some of the basics of a murder mystery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To start with you need three\u00a0characters. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>murder victim<\/li>\n<li>murderer<\/li>\n<li>investigator(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First you need the murder victim.\u00a0And with this character, by default, you need the murderer. Unless your denouement shows it was all\u00a0an accident or suicide.<\/p>\n<p>And the third character you need is the person (or persons) searching for the murderer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ll need to keep your audience guessing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Murder Mystery should be solvable\u2026\u2026.but only at the end.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to\u00a0guess \u2018who done it\u2019, but you don\u2019t want to make it too easy. \u00a0You also don\u2019t want to make it so hard that no-one knows what\u2019s going on and hasn\u2019t the faintest idea who did it.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a few secrets and plot twists. Keep people on their toes until the conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everything must be explained at the conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes this is really important.<\/p>\n<p>Everything should be explained at the end. There is satisfaction of finding out the answer, whether you got the right answer or not.<\/p>\n<p>There will have been secrets withheld by the author, but at the end, all must\u00a0be explained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" style=\"width: 938px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/solvethemurder.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/eggdiesoct2011.jpg\" alt=\"murder mystery by ITM Games\" width=\"938\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/eggdiesoct2011.jpg 938w, https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/eggdiesoct2011-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/eggdiesoct2011-768x599.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murder Mystery by ITM Games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Fancy a murder mystery evening?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #6d6d6d; font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0;\">Visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ITM Games <\/a><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #6d6d6d; font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0;\">to get your next Murder Mystery Party Game or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityadventurers.co.uk\/City-Adventurers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join City Adventurers <\/a>and take part in a<\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #6d6d6d; font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0;\"> mystery event.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start with you need three\u00a0characters. murder victim murderer investigator(s) First you need the murder victim.\u00a0And with this character, by default, you need the murderer. Unless your denouement shows it was all\u00a0an accident or suicide. And the third character you need is the person (or persons) searching for the murderer. You\u2019ll need to keep your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=695\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are some of the basics of a murder mystery?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,48,9,41],"tags":[141,44,51,4,79],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery-evenings","category-murder-mystery-events","category-murder-mystery-games","category-mystery","tag-city-adventurers","tag-itm-games","tag-murder-mystery","tag-murder-mystery-evening","tag-murder-mystery-party"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What are some of the basics of a murder mystery? - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=695\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What are some of the basics of a murder mystery? - Solve The Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To start with you need three\u00a0characters. murder victim murderer investigator(s) First you need the murder victim.\u00a0And with this character, by default, you need the murderer. 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