Schemers at Vexley Hall: a hidden role mystery party game for big groups
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Aunt Araminta Vexley, the richest and most mischievous woman in the county, has left this world at ninety-seven. Her doctor blamed her heart. Her will blames her family. It says that Schemers have been after her fortune for years, and not one share is paid until the family has played her parlor games under her roof and found them.
Every guest secretly draws a role. Most are Rightful Heirs who know only their own card; one or two are Schemers who know each other. Every Midnight, while everyone's eyes are closed, the Schemers slip a forged page into the will and cut another relative out. Nobody is murdered: the worst that can happen to you is losing your inheritance.
By day the family plays Aunt Araminta's parlor games to win Wax Seals and grow the Fortune, then gathers for a heated Family Meeting and votes to disown one suspect. Relatives who are out join the Staff with funny duties, so nobody sits on the sidelines. The evening ends with the Reading of the Will, where the family decides in secret whether the last Schemer is really gone.
One payment of $39.99. Both paper formats and both designs are included.
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Any home printer will do. Print single-sided, in full color or in the ink-saving printer-friendly design.
Deal the roles, read the scripts word for word and keep the clock. The host never plays a role, so you see the whole game.
No. It is a separate one-time purchase of $39.99. Premium is for playing our cold cases online and does not include party kits or case PDFs.
No. It is a printable PDF party game for one room: you download the files, print them at home and play face to face. Nothing runs in the browser during the party.
6 to 25 players plus one host, and it is best with 8 to 18. The role table in the Host Guide tells you how many Schemers to deal for every group size, so it works as a large group party game for birthdays, family reunions, office parties and classrooms.
No. Aunt Araminta passed away at ninety-seven before the evening begins, and nobody is hurt during the game. The Schemers only forge pages of her will and cut relatives out of the inheritance, so you get the mood of a country house mystery without any violence.
They join the Staff and get a Staff Duty card: keeping the clock, collecting ballots, making the Midnight sounds or predicting the vote. Every duty earns shares for the Fortune, so everyone stays in the evening to the end.
Any home printer, plus envelopes and pens. Every file comes in US Letter and A4, in a full color design and a printer-friendly design that saves ink.