FOUL PLAY

The Murder Mystery Card Game   The Manor House Murder  

A game for 2 – 5 players | Age 14 +            £8.95 + p&p

www.foulplaygame.co.uk

A game for the sleuths of the household! 

Its years since Ive played a game so when asked to try this one I thought Id give it

 a go. Its a card game which makes it nice and simple and easy to take with you for

 holidays etc. Its a game of mystery- to find out clues and whodunnit. There are two

 versions of the game- good cop and bad cop and simple instructions to follow 

to set the game up. We played with just two of us and found it easy enough to follow

playing good cop- the idea being to find the 3 evidence cards and then the person 

described by them. This is a cluedo of sorts (for those old enough to remember)

 and the character cards very much reminded me of those characters way back

 when board games were pretty much the only sitdown games around. 

I think to keep things moving this would be better with 4 or more players

 as there are blocks and stealig one anothers cards and the evidence cards

would be less easy to find. That said its a fun game wihtout all the bother 

of a board- its been well thought out and fun to play for adults and children

 alike- little ones would struggle with the concept so the 14+ I think is suitable. 

A perfect winters night or holiday game

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The Game

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!

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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 things planned for the future!