£17.00 – £29.00
Dope 90s murder mystery game set in Worthalot Manor for 6-14 players. Instant download. Type of game = face-to-face or video chat. No commercial use.
Characters for this Totally Rad 90s Murder Mystery Game
This RAD 90s murder mystery party has a dope mix of wannabes and celebrities, with an end-of-the-world cult and a New Age Psychic
not to mention
those snooty Manor House types, Lady This and Lady That, with their rebellious "servants" and a PI with a liking for grunge (and other things).
Polite notes: please check how many wish to play BEFORE purchase. The two optional/minor characters are fully integrated but have slightly smaller roles.
Dinner Party Game: 8 - 10 Players
Gender of 8 essential players: 4 females, 2 males, 2 neutrals
Gender of 2 optional/minor players: 2 neutral
Suspects: 8 - 10
Essential Female Suspects
Karisma, Lady Worthalot-Worthy – victim's flashy American widow and - respectable? - business partner
Dabs her eyes when discussing the mysterious deaths of four former husbands. And insists that Little Worthalot Hotel is perfectly respectable. Slinky clothes and suspiciously large handbag suggest otherwise.
Ah'm from Texas, honey cupcake love-muffin. My poor William and Ahh were so in love.
Miss Claire Voyantte – New Age psychic, claims to the victim's secret mistress
The crystal shows that William is the father of her unborn child – and the crystal never lies, whatever Fred claims!
Love and light to all - except the murderer of My William!
Miss Scarlet Mopper – a wanna-be singer who intends to be a MEGA pop star with a secret that most hope will stay hidden!
It's Scarlet-hour, dude; when I'm a famous singer ...
Lady Beatrice – unbearably-aristocratic sister of the victim; engaged to Thomas Trustme
Snobbish, narrow-minded member of the upper-classes. How far will she go to protect her family's good name?
When one's family have lived in Little Worthalot since 1066, one is shocked, one is horrified, at such behaviour. Thomas, support me!
Essential Male Suspects
Fred – still in love with Claire Voyantte and hopes to be the next Poet Laureate
Oooh arrh, folks, I be Fred. Me cows want me to marry Claire Voyantte; me pigs say she is the mother of my unborn child ...
Rt Hon Thomas Trustme M.P. – a tireless campaigner against the largest wind farm in Europe? Or a M.P. with some very dark secrets?
Trustme by name, trustable by nature; one lives to serve others. There, there, my darling. Don't upset yourself so, old sport.
Essential Gender Neutral Suspects
Junior – rebellious private detective with a liking for grunge
Whatever - equality for all, not just the rich. We can't all have silk knickers. Talk to the hand.
Rev. Des Honestly – president of The Save Our Sinners Foundation; is this a cult or is this self-styled reverend really saving sinners to prevent the world ending on December 31st 1999?
Hallelujah! Praise The Lord; Repent and we will all be saved.
Optional/Minor Suspects - Gender Neutral
Pat Snapper – member of the paparazzi; a Goth; distant relation of those snooty Worthalot-Worthies
The BooYah Gossip will love this snap. Pose, Booyah!
Tyger Fly – lead singer / guitarist in All Sinners, a world-famous pop band
Loud and brash and dying to dish the dirt on Reverend Des Honestly
Murder Mystery Party Game: 10 - 12 Players
Gender of 10 essential players: 4 females, 2 males, 4 neutrals
Gender of 2 optional/minor players: 2 neutral
Suspects: 10 - 12
Essential Female Suspects
Karisma, Lady Worthalot-Worthy – victim's flashy American widow
An interior designer who dabs her eyes when discussing the mysterious deaths of four former husbands.
Ah'm from Texas, honey. My poor William and Ahh were so in love.
Miss Claire Voyantte – New Age psychic, claims to the victim's secret mistress
The crystal shows that William is the father of her unborn child – and the crystal never lies, whatever Fred claims!
Love and light to all - except the murderer of My William!
Miss Scarlet Mopper – a wanna-be singer who intends to be a MEGA pop star with a secret that most hope will stay hidden!
It's Scarlet-hour, dude; when I'm a famous singer ...
Lady Beatrice – unbearably-aristocratic sister of the victim; engaged to Thomas Trustme
Snobbish, narrow-minded member of the upper-classes. How far will she go to protect her family's good name?
When one's family have lived in Little Worthalot since 1066, one is shocked, one is horrified, at such behaviour. Thomas, support me!
Essential Male Suspects
Fred – still in love with Claire Voyantte and hopes to be the next Poet Laureate
Oooh arrh, folks, I be Fred. Me cows want me to marry Claire Voyantte; me pigs say she is the mother of my unborn child ...
Rt Hon Thomas Trustme M.P. – a tireless campaigner against the largest wind farm in Europe? Or an upper-class M.P. with some very dark secrets?
He swears he loves his fiance, Lady Beatrice, for herself - not her money and connections
Trustme by name, trustable by nature; one lives to serve others. There, there, my darling. Don't upset yourself so, old sport.
Essential Gender Neutral Suspects
Junior – rebellious private detective with a liking for grunge
Whatever - equality for all, not just the rich. We can't all have silk knickers. Talk to the hand.
Mr / Miss Kit Cathoosen – victim's - respectable? - business partner
Kit insists that the exclusive Little Worthalot Hotel is a respectable hotel. Slinky clothes suggest otherwise. And why does Kit carry such a large handbag?
My hotel is perfectly respectable, cup-cake love-muffin.
Mel Mopper – the Worthalot-Worthy's disgruntled butler/housekeeper
Mel starred in a reality TV show "Cooks in Homes" and has dreams of becoming a famous TV chef, branded Mopper's Mash
If he could corrupt my little Scarlet, he could do anything! I'll have you know!
Rev. Des Honestly – president of The Save Our Sinners Foundation; is this a cult or is this self-styled reverend really saving sinners to prevent the world ending on December 31st 1999?
Hallelujah! Praise The Lord; Repent and we will all be saved.
Optional/Minor Suspects - Gender Neutral
Pat Snapper – member of the paparazzi; a Goth; distant relation of those snooty Worthalot-Worthies
The BooYah Gossip will love this snap. Pose, Booyah!
Tyger Fly – lead singer / guitarist in All Sinners, a world-famous pop band
Loud and brash and dying to dish the dirt on Reverend Des Honestly
Murder Mystery Party Game: 12 - 14 Players
Gender of 12 essential players: 5 females, 4 males, 3 neutrals
Gender of 2 optional/minor players: 2 neutral
Suspects: 12 - 14
Essential Female Suspects
Karisma, Lady Worthalot-Worthy – victim's flashy American widow
An interior designer who dabs her eyes when discussing the mysterious deaths of four former husbands.
Ah'm from Texas, honey. My poor William and Ahh were so in love.
Miss Claire Voyantte – New Age psychic, claims to the victim's secret mistress
The crystal shows that William is the father of her unborn child – and the crystal never lies, whatever Fred claims!
Love and light to all - except the murderer of My William!
Miss Scarlet Mopper – a wanna-be singer who intends to be a MEGA pop star with a secret that most hope will stay hidden!
It's Scarlet-hour, dude; when I'm a famous singer ...
Lady Beatrice – unbearably-aristocratic sister of the victim; engaged to Justin Good
Snobbish, narrow-minded member of the upper-classes. How far will she go to protect her family's good name?
When one's family have lived in Little Worthalot since 1066, one is shocked, one is horrified, at such behaviour. Justin, support me!
Goldie Honeykins – Hollywood actress now engaged to Rev Honestly
Vice President of The Save Our Sinners Foundation
Darling this murder is dreadfully awful; another dwinkie please!
Essential Male Suspects
Fred – still in love with Claire Voyantte and hopes to be the next Poet Laureate
Oooh arrh, folks, I be Fred. Me cows want me to marry Claire Voyantte; me pigs say she is the mother of my unborn child ...
Justin Good – smooth founder of “Good Causes 4 Us” charity; he swears he loves Lady Beatrice for herself – not her money and connections.
There, there, my darling. Don't upset yourself so. Of course, my darling. Of course.
Rt Hon Thomas Trustme M.P. – a tireless campaigner against the largest wind farm in Europe? Or an upper-class M.P. with some very dark secrets?
Trustme by name, trustable by nature; one lives to serve others, old sport.
Rev. Des Honestly – president of The Save Our Sinners Foundation; is this a cult or is this self-styled reverend really saving sinners to prevent the world ending on December 31st 1999?
Hallelujah! Praise The Lord; Repent and we will all be saved.
Essential Gender Neutral Suspects
Junior – rebellious private detective with a liking for grunge
Whatever - equality for all, not just the rich. We can't all have silk knickers. Talk to the hand.
Mr / Miss Kit Cathoosen – victim's - respectable? - business partner
Kit insists that the exclusive Little Worthalot Hotel is a respectable hotel. Slinky clothes suggest otherwise. And why does Kit carry such a large handbag?
My hotel is perfectly respectable, cup-cake love-muffin.
Mel Mopper – the Worthalot-Worthy's disgruntled butler / housekeeper
Mel starred in a reality TV show "Cooks in Homes" and has dreams of becoming a famous TV chef, branded Mopper's Mash
If he could corrupt my little Scarlet, he could do anything! I'll have you know, those ungrateful Worthalot-Worthies ...
Optional/Minor Suspects - Gender Neutral
Pat Snapper – member of the paparazzi; a Goth; distant relation of those snooty Worthalot-Worthies
The BooYah Gossip will love this snap. Pose, Booyah!
Tyger Fly – lead singer / guitarist in All 4 Sinners, a world-famous pop band
Loud and brash and dying to dish the dirt on Reverend Des Honestly
Melanie Vale (verified owner) –
We were running out of ideas for virtual get togethers and needed something for a work leaving do. This murder mystery proved to be the perfect solution and a great time was had by all. It is the second event I have hosted, so I was familiar with the preparation needed – which helped things to go more smoothly. Dressing up certainly added a few laughs. We are looking forward to the 1970’s themed murder mystery next! Thank you.
Jan Whitehead (verified owner) –
What a brilliant night was had by all. Characters were amazing; never seen such good outfits too. REV even had a personalised jacket! Everything was really easy to follow, well written, best virtual party we have ever had. Would totally recommend it. Can’t wait to do our next one.
LORRAINE WEBB (verified owner) –
Eight of us gathered this weekend for an evening of murder and mayhem and a great time was had by all. It was great to be able to combine using a script and throwing in a bit of ad-libbing, especially as we were all murder mystery novices, having only tried this once before with a very simple script.
It took a little while to get into how the script worked and we would highly recommend printing the script and clues out rather than having to keep two windows open on a laptop/PC. One or two characters did not seem to have as much to say as others, but that worked out fine for our situation.
It was fun to dress up for our parts and we really appreciated all the suggestions included in the pack. The decor and food ideas would have been really useful if we’d been doing the game live, too.
Note from Maple Mystery Games: since the lady bought this mystery, we have gone back over all mysteries and have evened out the number of speeches per character. We have also improved both the instructions in the Party Booklets and the Host Instructions.
Daniel Anderton (verified owner) –
Did ‘murder in the 90s’ with some friends via Zoom in Lockdown 1 (May 2020). Enjoyed it so much we are planning to do another one in lockdown 3 (Jan 2021). Everything is organised and provided for you in the pack. The script and character bios with a bit of ad-libbing here and there, really made it a great laugh. This honestly was a great way to spend a couple of hours with friends (even if we couldn’t all be in the same place).
Rich Tervet (verified owner) –
Really good fun to play through over Zoom for a birthday party. Plenty of ways to improvise and make it our own but without feeling forced to. Guests really enjoyed it and got involved, even those of us that aren’t naturally so dramatic!
Shari Rosenberg (verified owner) –
We played this game for New Year’s Eve and had a blast! It was a great activity for Covid times since we did the whole event on Zoom. It was fun to dress up and get into character and the game worked even though none of us had ever done something like this before. I would definitely recommend this!
Jo (verified owner) –
12 person game, online. The story was quite complicated but the characters well defined and the script well written, I set everyone a little quiz on their characters first to make sure they read their notes. Perhaps the story could be a bit simpler as the real fun is in the acting and dressing up and guessing rather than being right. But we all had a really really fun evening
Tija Mason (verified owner) –
This was a great concept and it was really well written with speedy customer service!
I am not the most tech savvy but I managed it. We all dressed up and made an effort to look ‘90s.
We did all feel that it could have been more 90s themed though, it was too Lord and Lady for what we were hoping for from a 90s theme.
We had a good night and I was surprised how well it played out virtually. It was our first murder mystery virtually but won’t be our last.
sstenton (verified owner) –
As a group, we have been doing murder mysteries for over 20 years. This is the first virtual murder we have done and all agreed that it worked very well. We still had the fun experience of figuring out our costumes and getting into our roles. Even better, we skipped the cooking and supported our local restaurants with take-out meals. The plot of the murder was fun and engaging. A great evening with friends.
Alina (verified owner) –
We played Murder in the Naughty 90s with 10 people as our virtual Christmas party via Zoom. Everyone made an effort to dress the part and it wasn’t too long before we were really getting to character!
We didn’t do the pre party due to lack of time but didn’t need to do this as we were virtual.
Pro tip – if you’re on Zoom change your screen name to your character name!
Everything was laid out really well and instructions were clear to follow. We were unsure how it was going to play out at first but it all fell into place.
Really recommend Maple Mystery Games if you want a virtual get together!