Fly party ideas and tips
Last Updated on September 7th, 2024
Look through our helpful tips and ideas for hosting our Murder in the Naughty Nineties mystery game.
Click the links below for ideas on decorations, costumes - and also party photos.
Scroll down to find tips on food and drink, music and dance.
As host, it is your responsibility to either provide food - or to ask guests to contribute to a pot-luck buffet. The 90s make a buffet dope-easy, dude! Some hosts give guests a list of ideas of decade-related food and ask everyone to bring a dish. (Obviously, keep a list of who is bringing what to avoid duplicates.)
Mains
Lunchables (crackers, cheese and meat arranged as you wish)
Handi-Snacks (Ritz crackers with nacho cheese spread)
Bagel Bites
Salads include chicken Caesar salad, salad with cranberries, goat's cheese, pecans and that all-important balsamic vinaigrette, Chinese chicken salad with mandarin oranges, seven-layered dip
Cheese balls
Hot pockets
Corn dogs
Sun-dried tomatoes
Focaccia with olives and tomatoes
Purple ketchup
Tacos - try with chilli and/or salad
Potato skins stuffed with cheese, bacon and sour cream and chives
Desserts
Dunkaroos
Chocolate chip cookies
Ice cream with sprinkles or colored candy
Pop tarts
Cosmic Brownies - yummy fudge and rainbow-sprinkled brownies
Viennetta ice cream
90s candy of your choice
Cupcakes served in neon cupcake cases or large cakes with neon-effect food coloring. Try a self-colored icing with neon-effect icing shapes on the sides and top.
Pasta salad with sun-dried tomatoes
Tacos or chili served with baked potatoes, peas and sweetcorn
Banoffee pie or Dunkaroos; ice cream sprinkled with brightly-colored sprinkles or candy
As the game is set in Worthalot Manor, some hosts prefer to serve food that is suitable for a manor house.
Feel free to get as fancy as you wish, or keep life as easy as you wish, providing you use your best dinner service, tablecloths and candles. For those snooty Worthalot-Worthies, presentation is all!
You could try a full three-course dinner party should you so wish - pâté, egg mayonnaise or smoked salmon for starters, casserole or roast meat for mains, trifle or cheesecake for dessert. Or stick to a buffet with cold meats (try Nigella Lawson's fabulous cola-boiled ham or beef with a mustard glaze), fancy quiches and fancy bread rolls with some interesting salads.
Try serving manor house dessert staples such as trifle, cake, or cheesecake and then adding a touch of the 90s by sprinkling them with bold, colorful candy or sprinkles. Alternatively, add some neon-effect food coloring to the top layer of whipped cream or buttercream. Or add neon-effect food coloring to icing and use this to create cool abstract shapes on the sides and top of your desserts.
For starters, consider Hot Pockets with a fancy salad garnish. (For larger versions of the game, you could even add a food label such as "Mel Mopper's Creation".
Serve soup and fancy bread rolls served with a slab of butter that has been colored with a neon-effect food coloring. Or stick a cocktail stick with a 90s cupcake topper into each bread roll.
Consider creating a soundtrack to play when guests are arriving, when guests are completing the Accusation Sheet and, optionally, during food breaks.
90s classics with a catchy beat include Wannabe (The Spice Girls), Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain), Baby One More Time (Britney Spears), Ray of Light (Madonna), Bring It All Back (S Club 7), Turn the Beat Around (Gloria Estefan), Keep on Movin' (Five) and Gonna Make You Sweat (C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams).
Will any of your guests remember The House Party Kick, Vogue, The Running Man, The Sprinkler, Hammer Time, Cha Cha Slide, Cabbage Patch? The beauty of these dances is that just a few moves and memories can rush back, dude!