Foul Play: The Manor House Murder Mystery Card Game

Foul Play: The Manor House Murder Mystery Card Game 

The Game:

Welcome to Edwardian England. The Lord of the Manor is dead! The servants are our lead suspects and it's up to you to unearth the evidence, seek out the suspects and catch the culprit in order to scupper the other sleuths, and win this game of murder!
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There's more than one way to catch a killer though. So what's it gonna be? Good Cop or Bad Cop? These two game versions come with their own set of rules and tactics to crack the case and finger your suspect, but will you use fair play or FOUL PLAY?

The Game is Afoot! Playing as detective, you’ll need to find the three evidence cards that point to a specific suspect in order to catch a killer in this crazy criminal caper. Will you uncover them in the crime scene? Could the other detectives be willing to collaborate and share their findings? Or will you resort to more tricky tactics, and plunder the proof you need to solve this crime?

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Something a little bit different on the blog today, because rather than a book review or promotion I have the pleasure to bring you a glimpse of a game for lovers of crime fiction instead!

Welcome to Foul Play: The Manor House Murder Mystery Game from After Dark which is card game for 2-5 players, over the age of fourteen, where it's up to you to unearth the evidence to catch the killer of The Lord Of The Manor by playing Good Cop or Bad Cop. 

The pack comprises cards explaining the rules and game play; a selection of 8 character cards, with some likely suspects from the staff of the Edwardian manor house; and all the cards you need to dictate how the investigation plays out.

We had a lot of fun playing this as a family as we are firm favourites of a good board or card game. The rules are easy to follow, whether you play in the Good or Bad Cop modes - although I have to say that we had more fun with Bad Cop mode, as the game play came a bit more naturally, but maybe that says more about us than the card game itself!

This is the perfect little game to have around for the festive season, and it would make a nice little stocking present for anyone who fancies themselves as a bit of a sleuth. In fact I am really looking forward to having a couple of more players around the table for Christmas, because this is bound to make it even more fun.

Foul Play is available to order now HERE for £8.95 plus P+P.  Email : info@afterdarkmurder.co.uk

Thank you to After Dark for sending me a Foul Play game to try out in return for an honest review and to Emma Welton of Damp Pebbles Tours for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

History of Foul Play:

What’s a Murder Mystery Events Company to do?

With a pandemic sweeping the nation and no sign of being able to perform their confounding criminal cabarets or incredible interactive investigations any time soon, they needed to come up with a plan, another way to provide mystery to the masses (and provide income to keep themselves afloat)!

Well, Lockdown does strange things to people, especially actors who can't go out and perform. So one fateful evening, Ben and Lee Cooper-Muir decided to come up with a whole new way to murder people. Keeping their cards close to their chests they plotted and schemed until Foul Play : The Murder Mystery Card Game was born. 

So, what to do next? This is where After Dark enters the picture. After all, Ben and Lee were two of the operators of the infamous murder mystery company. Maybe they could collaborate to bring the game to the masses. When Lockdown restrictions were eased a top-secret meeting was held with the other criminal masterminds behind After Dark, Helen Burrows, Sophie Webster and Tom Fisher and a pact was made. The game would be launched and licensed under the After Dark banner. 

In true After Dark style, the team burst into action and then began the beta testing, design updates, promotional planning, character changes, proofing, proofing and more proofing until finally all the kinks were ironed out, mysteries solved, and FOUL PLAY came to life!

We hope you enjoy playing it, and although we all hope to be back performing soon, WATCH THIS SPACE! Now we know we can create and produce games we've got a lot more fun things planned for the future!