The Game Night Murders
Hank Sanguillen took his bull mastiff for a walk in southwest Denver shortly after three in the morning. Mongo came home. Hank didn't.
Nine cases · Six endings each
Three to six detectives. One murderer. Fifty pieces of evidence scattered between you — and only one of you can make the arrest that closes the case.
Everyone has clues.
Nobody has the whole truth.
Be the first detective to solve the case.
How it works
Like a game night that happens to involve a homicide. One person buys the case; everyone else joins from whatever device is already in their hand.
One purchase covers the whole table. You get a room code the moment you pay.
Friends open a browser and type it in. No app, no account, no install — on any phone, tablet or laptop.
Draw evidence privately. Interview witnesses, run forensics, pull surveillance. Decide what to share.
Name the murderer and win instantly. Get it wrong and you're suspended for two turns.
Why it's different
Every case is solvable by reasoning alone. You may be misled — you will never be cheated.
The murderer is not the same person every time you play. Same suspects, same city, a different truth underneath — so a case is worth running again with a different group.
Evidence is dealt privately, and no detective can hold enough of it to solve alone. You have to decide who to trust and what to reveal.
Every red herring is factually true with an innocent explanation. The game never lies to you about verified evidence — the misdirection is in your interpretation.
DNA, lab work, authenticated video. Build on it.
Probably accurate. Not proven.
Rumour, anonymous tips, conflicting testimony.
Symbolic. Points toward a question, never an answer.
The casefiles
Each case adapts one of Ted Huntington's Detective Lauren Gabriel novels into a playable homicide investigation.
Hank Sanguillen took his bull mastiff for a walk in southwest Denver shortly after three in the morning. Mongo came home. Hank didn't.
Serial killings in Denver's LoDo district. The suspects include a sadistic drug dealer, an OnlyFans stripper, a newspaper reporter, and a rookie police officer.
A ritual killing at Red Rocks. The suspects include high-school occultists, a suspended detective with a drinking problem, and a professor who worships something older.
A teenage athlete is murdered in a quiet Colorado town. Then a suspicious suicide. Then a hit-and-run. The pattern suggests a serial killer — and Lauren is working it alone.
“I will observe carefully. I will think logically. I will question assumptions. I will respect the evidence. I will never arrest before the truth reveals itself.”
The Detective's Oath
Gather three to six people. Find out which one.
Your friends type this. That's the whole setup.
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