Game / activity
A cleverly named murder mystery
How this one works
Premise
- We'll find out in a cleverly named murder mystery. In this game, each of us are going to introduce a name of a character to the scene. And based on that name alone, we're all going to identify their personality traits and their background. But amongst this crowd is a murderer. And it is going to be up to us to catch the killer. But how many innocent people might be wrongly imprisoned in the process?
How it works
- As we reveal the names and the personalities, I'm going to reveal their status. Are they living, or have they been murdered? You're going to make that decision, okay. Do we talk about them? Yeah, you've got to get to know them before you find out if they die. It's dark. I think it's going to be great. Oh my god, this is going to be so tragic. Every time we come across a murdered person, we have to speculate on who the murderer might be. We have to send somebody to prison. Based on our speculation. And there's no coming out. Like, once we find out they weren't the murderer, because more people are dying, it doesn't matter, because we already put them in jail. Is there multiple murderers? There's only one. Is it one of the people we're naming?
- So I've set this up so that I have put on a spreadsheet, for each name we're going to plug in, there is a column for whether or not they're murdered and whether or not they're the murderer. And I've made all those cells black with black text, so I can't see. I've rearranged them randomly. So I can't see who's being murdered and who's going to be the murderer. I will reveal it as we go.
- All of us. We can, the three of us will vote.
Scoring
- I unfortunately think this person is going to get murdered. Oh, interesting. Is that a, well, I don't want to, is that a, well, you, I, you, it doesn't matter whether you guessed that or not. You don't get any points for, for guessing correctly, but I'm going to say that in this case, uh, this guy, I don't think he's a likely suspect.
Recorded outcome
- And we caught the murderer. Oh, it only took us 10 attempts. Wow.
Recorded activity context
I mean, she's like the obesity epidemic. Look at Stacey. Let's send her to prison. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Worst case, we're fine. Clean conscience. Sleeping well tonight. 100%. However, she is innocent. Only from this series of murders. Only from this. Well, you're not going to believe how we know. She did. It turns out that before she could even be…
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I mean, she's like the obesity epidemic. Look at Stacey. Let's send her to prison. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Worst case, we're fine. Clean conscience. Sleeping well tonight. 100%. However, she is innocent. Only from this series of murders. Only from this. Well, you're not going to believe how we know. She did. It turns out that before she could even be arrested, she was found dead in her office. So, yeah. You know what? You know what? No, it's fine. We did the right thing. We did the right thing. And I'm questioning at this point whether or not the murderer is really an evildoer. I think that maybe they're doing something good for the world. Here's the thing.
RESULT STATUS
This one was not a competition.
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What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Oh, Ryan Sansone, what about you?
Who have you got on the bench? I've got Kool-Aid Crane. Kool-Aid Crane. Wow. What a creative name. Brad, I want you to know I spelled Kool-Aid with a C.
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So who do we have left, Curtis?
Uh, we've got Sirius Herman, the animal activist from Jacksonville, a gender non-binary who helps turtles. We have Tom, no, he's sending him to prison. We have Monopoly Fandango, a doorman from a building from the 1950s in Queens.
The rest of the round record
5 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 2 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.
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I mean, you named the sports player, which is very confusing.
Kool-Aid, I think is he's got the name Crane, which makes him suspicious.
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So which one would you, are you more suspicious with?
Yeah.
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And Brad(ley), why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we can cover the previous episode
at season one, episode five, The Founder Society.
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Oh, Ryan, what about you? · Who have you got on the bench?
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So who do we have left, Curtis? · Uh, we've got Sirius Herman, the animal activist from Jacksonville, a gender non-binary who helps turtles.
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- I mean, she's like the obesity epidemic. Look at Stacey. Let's send her to prison. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Worst case, we're fine. Clean conscience. Sleeping well tonight. 100%. However, she is innocent. Only from this series of murders. Only from this. Well, you're not going to believe how we know. She did. It turns out that before she could even be arrested, she was found dead in her office. So, yeah. You know what? You know what? No, it's fine. We did the right thing. We did the right thing. And I'm questioning at this point whether or not the murderer is really an evildoer. I think that maybe they're doing something good for the world. Here's the thing.
- Participants perform a structured creative or improvisational activity tied to the episode. No competitive scoring or winner is stated.
- Well, but the good thing is that you must know a lot of drug addicts.
- And if we get this wrong, we have to go to prison.