Murder Mystery Games for Teens

Make Sure All Parents Agree to the Idea

• Murder mystery games can make a great addition to teen parties, but the parents of the teenagers should be comfortable with their child participating.

Styles of Murder Mystery Games

• Many of the teen murder mystery games take the style of the adult games where each participant takes on a certain role and the people running the event play the key characters. The participants play the sleuths that must uncover the clues and find out what happened. Other teen murder mystery games take the form of more traditional board games such as Clue.

Costumes not Necessary but Helpful

• Acting adds to the fun and players might want to come in costume if the scenario takes place during a certain period of history.

Teen Murder Mystery Game: Detectives

• Dinner and murder makes this teenager murder mystery game. The first part of the game involves asking the right questions to find out who did it. The second part of the game involves going out and finding the clues in a treasure hunt.

Murder at the Four Deuces

• This scenario takes the players back to the 1920s, where a body has turned up at the Four Deuces Hotel. Players must sniff out the clues and talk to gangsters, gamblers and politicians to figure out what happened.