• Accident, Drink Involved cover: A Cold Ledger case file, a printable cold-case mystery, solve it in one evening. Above: Ten winters ago they ruled it an accident. They shouldn't have. Below: 17 exhibits, 1 to 2 detectives, 60 to 90 minutes, print or screen.
  • Accident, Drink Involved: ruled an accident. Ten winters ago, a distillery's co-founder went through the ice after its first year-end party. Below, the case file's cover page, and: the ruling, accident, drink involved. Was it?
  • Four answers: work the objectives, write your answers down, then open the sealed solution. Below, the case file's first page, with the premise and the four objectives. Seventeen documents, four objectives, one sealed solution.
  • The first page of each of Accident, Drink Involved's four PDFs: Start Here, the case file cover, the graduated hints and the sealed solution's warning page.
  • Five pages of the case file fanned on a dark table: the opening page with How to Play and the four objectives on top, and four exhibit pages beneath it with their titles showing and their text blurred to avoid spoilers.
  • Who it's for: one or two detectives. A date night, a solo puzzle evening, or a night in for a true crime fan. Below, exhibit pages with their text blurred. Work alone or with a partner. Ages 16 and up.
  • How long it takes: one evening or two. 60 to 90 minutes, with no timer. Below, the first two pages of START HERE, and its pace: two sittings is a fine pace, Exhibits A to H, then I to Q.
  • Three hint pages, Tier 1 nudges, Tier 2 points and Tier 3 nearly answers, each showing only its objective and tier line, the hint itself blurred. Using hints is playing correctly.
  • The sealed solution's warning page, beside the scoring ladder for your solve: Juror, Investigator, Detective and Archivist. Which of you did the ruling fool?
  • A tablet showing the case file in a PDF reader, beside four notes: any PDF reader, no app or internet needed, keep the worksheet on paper if you can, or print it on US Letter in black and white.
  • The fine print: instant download. Four PDFs, 32 pages, US Letter, and black and white is fine. Print at home, or play it all on screen; nothing ships. Below, the first page of each PDF.
  • Content note: ages 16 and up. A death by drowning, and heavy drinking. No gore, no sexual assault. Below, exhibit pages with their text blurred.
  • Also available, from the same archive: this case in your browser, on any phone, and another cold case from the same podcast. The covers of Accident, Drink Involved's digital edition and The Orpheum File.
  • Accident, Drink Involved cover: A Cold Ledger case file, a printable cold-case mystery, solve it in one evening. Above: Ten winters ago they ruled it an accident. They shouldn't have. Below: 17 exhibits, 1 to 2 detectives, 60 to 90 minutes, print or screen.
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  • Accident, Drink Involved: ruled an accident. Ten winters ago, a distillery's co-founder went through the ice after its first year-end party. Below, the case file's cover page, and: the ruling, accident, drink involved. Was it?
  • Four answers: work the objectives, write your answers down, then open the sealed solution. Below, the case file's first page, with the premise and the four objectives. Seventeen documents, four objectives, one sealed solution.
  • The first page of each of Accident, Drink Involved's four PDFs: Start Here, the case file cover, the graduated hints and the sealed solution's warning page.
  • Five pages of the case file fanned on a dark table: the opening page with How to Play and the four objectives on top, and four exhibit pages beneath it with their titles showing and their text blurred to avoid spoilers.
  • Who it's for: one or two detectives. A date night, a solo puzzle evening, or a night in for a true crime fan. Below, exhibit pages with their text blurred. Work alone or with a partner. Ages 16 and up.
  • How long it takes: one evening or two. 60 to 90 minutes, with no timer. Below, the first two pages of START HERE, and its pace: two sittings is a fine pace, Exhibits A to H, then I to Q.
  • Three hint pages, Tier 1 nudges, Tier 2 points and Tier 3 nearly answers, each showing only its objective and tier line, the hint itself blurred. Using hints is playing correctly.
  • The sealed solution's warning page, beside the scoring ladder for your solve: Juror, Investigator, Detective and Archivist. Which of you did the ruling fool?
  • A tablet showing the case file in a PDF reader, beside four notes: any PDF reader, no app or internet needed, keep the worksheet on paper if you can, or print it on US Letter in black and white.
  • The fine print: instant download. Four PDFs, 32 pages, US Letter, and black and white is fine. Print at home, or play it all on screen; nothing ships. Below, the first page of each PDF.
  • Content note: ages 16 and up. A death by drowning, and heavy drinking. No gore, no sexual assault. Below, exhibit pages with their text blurred.
  • Also available, from the same archive: this case in your browser, on any phone, and another cold case from the same podcast. The covers of Accident, Drink Involved's digital edition and The Orpheum File.
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Accident, Drink Involved: Printable Cold Case Murder Mystery Game for 1-2 Players, Detective Date Night

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  • Digital file type(s): 4 PDF

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A printable cold case murder mystery game for 1 or 2 players: one evening, seventeen documents, four answers to commit to. Instant download. Print it at home or play it entirely on screen, so no printer is needed. A detective date night, a solo puzzle evening, or a night in for a true crime fan.

Ten winters ago, a young distillery threw its first year-end party at its founder's lake house, and after midnight its co-founder went through the ice of the frozen lake. The ruling: accident, drink involved. The insurance on his life paid out, and the company survived on it. Now a true crime podcast has released its research file, and you have every document. Everything you need is in these pages. Nothing is missing. Some of it is lying.

ACCIDENT, DRINK INVOLVED is a printable cold-case mystery for 1-2 players. You read seventeen real-feeling documents: sheriff's records, an insurer's claim file, a telephone bill, a dock work order, and a modern forensic re-examination. Then you commit to four answers: when he really went through the ice, whether anyone was out there with him, who read and answered his last message while the official account placed that phone somewhere else, and who was on the ice with him, including what the record was shaped to protect.

WHAT YOU GET (4 PDFs, instant download):

START HERE: spoiler-free setup, print tips, and the spoiler map
THE CASE FILE: 17 exhibits, four objectives, and a timeline worksheet
GRADUATED HINTS: three tiers per objective, one hint per page, so you never see more than you ask for
SEALED SOLUTION: behind a warning page, with a scoring ladder for your solve

GOOD TO KNOW:

1-2 players, ages 16 and up
Allow 60-90 minutes; some players finish sooner, and two sittings work fine
Play on screen in any PDF reader (keep the worksheet on paper if you can), or print at home: US Letter, one-sided, black and white is fine, 32 pages in all
No app, no internet needed, nothing to cut or assemble
Content note: a death by drowning, and heavy drinking; no gore, no sexual assault
Great for date night, game night, true crime fans, and solo puzzle evenings
This is a digital download. No physical item will ship. For personal use only.

If anything in your download is broken or unclear, message the shop and we'll make it right.

THE STORY CONTINUES

THE TENTH WINTER, a murder mystery party game for 8 to 20 players where the host plays too, is set at the same lake house ten winters later, on the night of the tenth party, and joins this shop on October 19. Solve the file first. Then raise a glass.

ALSO IN THE ARCHIVE

THE ORPHEUM FILE, another cold case from the same podcast's archive for 1 to 2 detectives (a nineteen-year-old's death in a small-town theater, fifteen years closed as an accident), is in this shop now: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4547558474/printable-cold-case-file-murder-mystery

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Accident, Drink Involved cover: A Cold Ledger case file, a printable cold-case mystery, solve it in one evening. Above: Ten winters ago they ruled it an accident. They shouldn't have. Below: 17 exhibits, 1 to 2 detectives, 60 to 90 minutes, print or screen.

A printable cold case murder mystery game for 1 or 2 players: one evening, seventeen documents, four answers to commit to. Instant download. Print it at home or play it entirely on screen, so no printer is needed. A detective date night, a solo puzzle evening, or a night in for a true crime fan.

Ten winters ago, a young distillery threw its first year-end party at its founder's lake house, and after midnight its co-founder went through the ice of the frozen lake. The ruling: accident, drink involved. The insurance on his life paid out, and the company survived on it. Now a true crime podcast has released its research file, and you have every document. Everything you need is in these pages. Nothing is missing. Some of it is lying.

ACCIDENT, DRINK INVOLVED is a printable cold-case mystery for 1-2 players. You read seventeen real-feeling documents: sheriff's records, an insurer's claim file, a telephone bill, a dock work order, and a modern forensic re-examination. Then you commit to four answers: when he really went through the ice, whether anyone was out there with him, who read and answered his last message while the official account placed that phone somewhere else, and who was on the ice with him, including what the record was shaped to protect.

WHAT YOU GET (4 PDFs, instant download):

START HERE: spoiler-free setup, print tips, and the spoiler map
THE CASE FILE: 17 exhibits, four objectives, and a timeline worksheet
GRADUATED HINTS: three tiers per objective, one hint per page, so you never see more than you ask for
SEALED SOLUTION: behind a warning page, with a scoring ladder for your solve

GOOD TO KNOW:

1-2 players, ages 16 and up
Allow 60-90 minutes; some players finish sooner, and two sittings work fine
Play on screen in any PDF reader (keep the worksheet on paper if you can), or print at home: US Letter, one-sided, black and white is fine, 32 pages in all
No app, no internet needed, nothing to cut or assemble
Content note: a death by drowning, and heavy drinking; no gore, no sexual assault
Great for date night, game night, true crime fans, and solo puzzle evenings
This is a digital download. No physical item will ship. For personal use only.

If anything in your download is broken or unclear, message the shop and we'll make it right.

THE STORY CONTINUES

THE TENTH WINTER, a murder mystery party game for 8 to 20 players where the host plays too, is set at the same lake house ten winters later, on the night of the tenth party, and joins this shop on October 19. Solve the file first. Then raise a glass.

ALSO IN THE ARCHIVE

THE ORPHEUM FILE, another cold case from the same podcast's archive for 1 to 2 detectives (a nineteen-year-old's death in a small-town theater, fifteen years closed as an accident), is in this shop now: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4547558474/printable-cold-case-file-murder-mystery

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