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      THE CUTTING IT KILLER     

The table top version of "The Cutting It Killer" is a specially written version of the full party game that can be played by 5 to 10 players.

All players will be allocated to one of five teams (Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Team E).  Each team will therefore either have one or two members.  Each team is responsible for voicing the parts of certain characters.  Namely:

       ♦  Team A will be voicing Detective Inspector Charlie Worthington and (if 10 players) Sergeant Sheen, Worthington's Assistant
       ♦  Team B will be voicing Jason Jazz and Hazel Tones
       ♦  Team C will be voicing Basil Bryl de Creem and Babs Bouffant
       ♦  Team D will be voicing Lance L'Oreal and Syria
       ♦  Team E will be voicing Sweep Clean and Trudy Finnegan

Rather than have to listen for cues before revealing information, each item in a round is numbered.  Items are performed in numerical order by the appropriate character.  For instance the table top at the beginning of Round 1 will look as follows:

			TEAM A
	Round 1 Flow Chart		Inspector Worthington Booklet	15 Investigation Question Cards 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 15, 17, 19, 28, 34 35, 37, 40, 43		Female Mystery Witness Card 13	Female Mystery Witness Card 22
T E A M B	Jason Jazz Suspect Card 2, 8, 31, 38						Trudy Finnegan Suspect Card 26, 29, 45		T E A M E
	Hazel Tones Suspect Card 20, 23, 42, 44, 47						Sweep Clean Suspect Card 18, 32, 41, 43
		Babs Bouffant Suspect Card 21, 24, 27	Basil Bryl de Creem Suspect Card 4, 6, 36			Syria Suspect Card 14, 30, 33, 39	Lance L'Oreal Suspect Card 10, 12, 16, 25
		TEAM C				TEAM D

So Team A would read out the first Investigation Question (1).  Jason Jazz answers from his Suspect Card (2).  Inspector Worthington ask another question (3), leading to Basil giving a response (4), and so on through to Hazel Tones concluding the round (47).  By this time all three Round 1 Clues in the centre of the table will have been turned over.

A round flowchart is also provided, allowing the party host to keep track of who is to speak at each point.  The Detective Inspector Worthington Character Booklet contains the instructions for laying out the components for each round, has a summary to be read aloud at the end of each round, and also contains the denouement speech with which the killer is unmasked.

The two sides of Basil Bryl de Creem's Round 1 Suspect Character Card are shown below, so you can see how the numbers on the back of each card correspond with the statements to be read aloud on the front.

After Round 4 each character has a "Protest of Innocence" to read aloud.  Then it is time for everyone to decide who committed the murder before Detective Inspector Worthington reveals all in a dramatic denouement speech.  Finally the player who has been voicing the murderer will read aloud the confession, explaining fully why they committed their crime.

The game should take about three hours to play.

©2010 - Tim Morrell