• May include: A collection of printed documents including a black and white photo strip, a color map, a newspaper titled Le Couvert, a handwritten letter, a brown envelope with a cake illustration, and a blue architectural floor plan.
  • May include: A digital analytics dashboard displaying user engagement data. It shows 27 visits and 9 submissions. A list of cases includes The Last Vanishing at 33%, The Lantern in the Snow, The Crown of Éclairs, and The Illusion of Christmas.
  • May include: A collection of printed game materials titled The Crown of Eclairs, including a newspaper, a map, a central document with a cake illustration and magnifying glass icon, a blue technical blueprint, and a film strip, all featuring text.
  • May include: A collection of 26 pieces of evidence across 3 envelopes, including printed documents, black and white photographs, a newspaper clipping titled Le Couvert, and illustrated pages featuring cakes and magnifying glass icons.
  • May include: A mystery game kit featuring printed documents, including a case file titled The Crown of Eclairs, three envelopes, and twenty-six pieces of evidence. The text What's Inside lists game components like a print guide, hints, and a solution.
  • May include: Three aged, off-white paper documents titled Decode, Match, Overlay and Puzzles in the Papers. The documents feature printed text, diagrams, and stamps. Below are three red labels: Decode a Notebook, Fit a Torn Paper, and Cut Out and Overlay.
  • May include: Two rectangular prints titled A MAP AND A BLUEPRINT DRAWN FOR THIS CASE. The left print is a beige map labeled LE FAUBOURG 2 PILS and THE STREETS OF THE LEFT BANK. The right print is a blue architectural floor plan labeled THE RESTAURANT.
  • May include: A mystery game set featuring a How It Works instruction panel, a document titled The Tasting, and a Cabinet Roussel letter. The game includes a glass of dark liquid and a pile of brown powder on a marble surface. Text indicates 2-6 players, 2 hours, and ages 18+.
  • May include: Two off-white printed documents titled Print at home US Letter & A4 Digital Download. One document is labeled US Letter 8.5 x 11 in, and the other is labeled A4 210 x 297 mm. Both feature black text and a circular stamp.
  • May include: Two printed maps titled "Le Faubourg à Pilo" displayed side-by-side. The left map is in full color, while the right map is in black and white. Both feature detailed street layouts, a legend, and a compass rose. The text "Two editions" appears above the maps, with "Deluxe" and "Ink-Saver" labels below each.
  • May include: A collection of printed documents including a black and white photo strip, a color map, a newspaper titled Le Couvert, a handwritten letter, a brown envelope with a cake illustration, and a blue architectural floor plan.
  • Product video
  • May include: A digital analytics dashboard displaying user engagement data. It shows 27 visits and 9 submissions. A list of cases includes The Last Vanishing at 33%, The Lantern in the Snow, The Crown of Éclairs, and The Illusion of Christmas.
  • Product video
  • May include: A collection of printed game materials titled The Crown of Eclairs, including a newspaper, a map, a central document with a cake illustration and magnifying glass icon, a blue technical blueprint, and a film strip, all featuring text.
  • May include: A collection of 26 pieces of evidence across 3 envelopes, including printed documents, black and white photographs, a newspaper clipping titled Le Couvert, and illustrated pages featuring cakes and magnifying glass icons.
  • May include: A mystery game kit featuring printed documents, including a case file titled The Crown of Eclairs, three envelopes, and twenty-six pieces of evidence. The text What's Inside lists game components like a print guide, hints, and a solution.
  • May include: Three aged, off-white paper documents titled Decode, Match, Overlay and Puzzles in the Papers. The documents feature printed text, diagrams, and stamps. Below are three red labels: Decode a Notebook, Fit a Torn Paper, and Cut Out and Overlay.
  • May include: Two rectangular prints titled A MAP AND A BLUEPRINT DRAWN FOR THIS CASE. The left print is a beige map labeled LE FAUBOURG 2 PILS and THE STREETS OF THE LEFT BANK. The right print is a blue architectural floor plan labeled THE RESTAURANT.
  • May include: A mystery game set featuring a How It Works instruction panel, a document titled The Tasting, and a Cabinet Roussel letter. The game includes a glass of dark liquid and a pile of brown powder on a marble surface. Text indicates 2-6 players, 2 hours, and ages 18+.
  • May include: Two off-white printed documents titled Print at home US Letter & A4 Digital Download. One document is labeled US Letter 8.5 x 11 in, and the other is labeled A4 210 x 297 mm. Both feature black text and a circular stamp.
  • May include: Two printed maps titled "Le Faubourg à Pilo" displayed side-by-side. The left map is in full color, while the right map is in black and white. Both feature detailed street layouts, a legend, and a compass rose. The text "Two editions" appears above the maps, with "Deluxe" and "Ink-Saver" labels below each.
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Christmas Murder Mystery Game, Printable Paris 1992 Pastry Chef Case for Couples

Item highlights

  • Digital download
  • Digital file type(s): 4 ZIP, 1 PDF

Seller's description

Paris, Tuesday 15 December 1992. Armand Delorme, the two-star chef of Le Fil d'Or on the Left Bank, unveils his Christmas showpiece to the press: the Crown of Éclairs. He eats the first piece at the tasting. By evening he is dead in his office, and by the next night someone in his kitchen is ready to confess.

His English widow can't read the investigating judge's French file, so her avocat has had it translated and sent to you in three envelopes. The file already holds a confession. Read it for her and tell her who really must answer for her husband's death.

What's included
• 26 pieces of evidence in three envelopes: police reports, the scene photograph, a photographer's contact sheet, witness statements, a blueprint of the restaurant, a map of the streets around it, laboratory and medical reports, a recipe notebook and newspaper cuttings
• Puzzles worked into the papers: a coded notebook, a torn paper to fit back together and a cut-out to lay over a technical drawing
• A Start Here page
• Hints for every question: a nudge first, then a pointer if you're still stuck
• A Scoring file: you write your verdict first, then score yourselves question by question
• The full story, explained step by step
• A printable gift invitation

Players, time and difficulty
• 2 to 6 players, ages 18+
• Difficulty: medium
• Plan on about two hours. Some groups will be quicker, some slower
• Content: a food-allergy reaction and one death by poisoning (off the page, no gore); champagne and cigarettes

How it works
Print Start Here and the three envelopes. Open Envelope 1, read everything in it together and take your own notes, then move on to the next envelope when you're ready. Nobody plays a role and nobody hosts: you're working through the file for the widow. After Envelope 3, write down who is responsible for Armand's death, how it was done and why, with the exhibits that prove it. Then open the Scoring file on screen, mark your answers and read the full story.

Printing
• US Letter with US units and A4 with metric units, each in Deluxe (full color) and Ink-saver (light on ink)
• 40 pages to print, plus the one-page gift invitation if it's a present
• Print at 100% scale, single-sided, at home or at a copy shop
• You'll need scissors for a couple of pieces
• The hints, the scoring and the full story stay on a screen, so nobody reads an answer by accident

Written and illustrated with the help of AI tools, from our own story, prompts and edits, and checked by us.

Digital download, nothing is shipped. You receive PDF files to print yourself.

FAQ
• Can we play it on a screen? Start Here opens fine on a phone, but you'll be laying papers side by side and cutting a couple out, so printing works much better.
• Do we need a host? No. Everyone plays together, and nobody needs to know the answer in advance.
• Can more than 6 play? Yes, though the papers go round more slowly. Start Here tells you which page is worth printing twice.
• Do we need to know French? No. Every paper is translated into English, and the few French words left in are explained where they appear.
• Letter or A4? Letter for US and Canadian printers, A4 for most of the rest of the world. Choose Ink-saver if your printer is low on ink.

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May include: A collection of printed documents including a black and white photo strip, a color map, a newspaper titled Le Couvert, a handwritten letter, a brown envelope with a cake illustration, and a blue architectural floor plan.

Paris, Tuesday 15 December 1992. Armand Delorme, the two-star chef of Le Fil d'Or on the Left Bank, unveils his Christmas showpiece to the press: the Crown of Éclairs. He eats the first piece at the tasting. By evening he is dead in his office, and by the next night someone in his kitchen is ready to confess.

His English widow can't read the investigating judge's French file, so her avocat has had it translated and sent to you in three envelopes. The file already holds a confession. Read it for her and tell her who really must answer for her husband's death.

What's included
• 26 pieces of evidence in three envelopes: police reports, the scene photograph, a photographer's contact sheet, witness statements, a blueprint of the restaurant, a map of the streets around it, laboratory and medical reports, a recipe notebook and newspaper cuttings
• Puzzles worked into the papers: a coded notebook, a torn paper to fit back together and a cut-out to lay over a technical drawing
• A Start Here page
• Hints for every question: a nudge first, then a pointer if you're still stuck
• A Scoring file: you write your verdict first, then score yourselves question by question
• The full story, explained step by step
• A printable gift invitation

Players, time and difficulty
• 2 to 6 players, ages 18+
• Difficulty: medium
• Plan on about two hours. Some groups will be quicker, some slower
• Content: a food-allergy reaction and one death by poisoning (off the page, no gore); champagne and cigarettes

How it works
Print Start Here and the three envelopes. Open Envelope 1, read everything in it together and take your own notes, then move on to the next envelope when you're ready. Nobody plays a role and nobody hosts: you're working through the file for the widow. After Envelope 3, write down who is responsible for Armand's death, how it was done and why, with the exhibits that prove it. Then open the Scoring file on screen, mark your answers and read the full story.

Printing
• US Letter with US units and A4 with metric units, each in Deluxe (full color) and Ink-saver (light on ink)
• 40 pages to print, plus the one-page gift invitation if it's a present
• Print at 100% scale, single-sided, at home or at a copy shop
• You'll need scissors for a couple of pieces
• The hints, the scoring and the full story stay on a screen, so nobody reads an answer by accident

Written and illustrated with the help of AI tools, from our own story, prompts and edits, and checked by us.

Digital download, nothing is shipped. You receive PDF files to print yourself.

FAQ
• Can we play it on a screen? Start Here opens fine on a phone, but you'll be laying papers side by side and cutting a couple out, so printing works much better.
• Do we need a host? No. Everyone plays together, and nobody needs to know the answer in advance.
• Can more than 6 play? Yes, though the papers go round more slowly. Start Here tells you which page is worth printing twice.
• Do we need to know French? No. Every paper is translated into English, and the few French words left in are explained where they appear.
• Letter or A4? Letter for US and Canadian printers, A4 for most of the rest of the world. Choose Ink-saver if your printer is low on ink.

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