Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters
Mission 496
Mystery Night: Can Your Family Solve Your Case?
Badge: The Mastermind
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Design a full mystery with suspects, clues and a red herring, then host it.
Tonight the detective becomes the mastermind. Design a mystery so tricky your whole family is stumped.
- New skill Building a crime scene with hidden clues
- Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Survival
- Time 60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Design a full mystery for your family to solve. Write the solution and seal it away, build a crime scene with a missing prize and name four villager suspects with alibis. Hide five clues, including one red herring, then host a mystery night and see who cracks the case first.
Finish line: Your mystery is complete, the crime scene holds five clues and your family night has a winner.
Bonus challenge: Run it again for someone new with one clue taken away. Can it still be solved? Which clue was truly needed?
You’ll need
- Name tags or signs
- An anvil
- Four villagers
- A chest
- Family members as detectives
You choose
- The case: stolen treasure, missing pet or sabotage
- My four suspects
- My red herring
Stuck?
- Name tags can't be crafted. Find them in chests or by fishing, or use signs to name suspects instead.
- Rename a name tag on an anvil (it costs a little experience), then tap a villager with it.
- Villagers wander off. Fence each suspect in near their sign so the scene stays put.
For grown-ups
Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 49. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
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