Historical Characters Murder Mystery Party
October 14, 2000
Schedule of the Party
- 6:00 "Potsdam '45 Get to Know You Mixer." People
arrive and eat appetizers. Mixer game: over appetizers, get to know
one other character. When the room lights wink, proceed to the living
room to introduce the character you got to know.
Pairings:
| Lise Meitner | Winston Churchill |
| Tokyo Rose | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Lady Astor | James Dean |
| Ella Fitzgerald | Comrade Stalin |
| Mrs. Remington | Alan Turing |
| Margarete Bohr | Charles Lindbergh |
| Marilyn Monroe | Mr. Remington |
| Sarah Winchester | Harry S. Truman |
| Audrey Hepburn | Stalin's Comrade #1 |
| Madame Curie | Stalin's Comrade #2 |
- 7:00 Preprandial Accusations The circumstances of
the maid's demise are announced. Everyone draws one clue and one name
from a hat, then gets together with the person whose name was drawn
and makes up a story about how/why they have knowledge of the clue.
Pick any room for your individualized conferencing. When you see the
room lights wink, proceed to the kitchen for dinner.
- 8:00 Dinner During dinner and the beginning of the
dancing we will have more individualized mingling so that if anyone
needs to do anything scripted (from Josh and Drew) they will have the
oppurtunity. To encourage this, please try not to stay with people
you know in real life but instead associate with people your character
would want to hang out with.
- 8:45 "The Potsdam Nightlife" Dancing (+ ballroom
dancing, for those inclined) in the front room. This is to fulfill
Drew's request that we move around a lot during the evening, "or it
won't work." (We wish we knew what he meant by that . . .) Those not
wishing to dance are responsible for finding a way to keep themselves
mobile . . . might we suggest mingling with the others in the living
room and maybe doing a group round of "ring around the rosy" or
twister or something . . . When you see the room lights wink, proceed
to the kitchen for dessert.
- 9:30 Dessert This is our last chance to figure out
who the murderer is! Try to make a circuit through the guests,
talking with each character one final time, and decide whom you most
suspect. Take an index card from the table and clearly write your
character's name (underlined) on it. Underneath that, write the name
of the character you most suspect to be the murderer, followed by any
secondary tasks that you have deduced over the course of the evening.
When you see the room lights wink, proceed to the living room for the
denoument.
- 10:15 Denoument, "Doing the Laundry, Potsdam Style"
We will gather in the living room. At this point the murderer(s?)
should reveal the true story about what happened to the maid and why.
Following this, everyone will go around and state their secondary
tasks, the index cards will be read, and prizes will be awarded.
Everyone please remember to send Drew (skulan@leland.stanford.edu) and
Josh (sabloff@hopf.stanford.edu) thank-you notes for all their hard
work putting this together!! Maybe after its all over we can discuss
ideas for having a party like this without making your friends stay
up until 4am working out a story and planting clues . . .
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