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     THE WAKE FOR HUMPTY DUMPTY    

The table top version of "The Wake for Humpty Dumpty" 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 Tommy Tucker and (if 10 players) Dr Bell, Tommy's Assistant
       ♦  Team B will be voicing Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Old MacDonald
       ♦  Team C will be voicing Polly Flinders and Ol' "King" Cole
       ♦  Team D will be voicing Old Mother Hubbard and Tom Tom the Piper's Son
       ♦  Team E will be voicing The Old Woman in a Shoe and Georgie Porgie

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		Tommy Tucker Booklet	9 Investigation Question Cards 1, 6, 8, 10, 21 24, 26, 29, 31	Female Mystery Witness Card 3	Male Mystery Witness Card 28
T E A M B	Mary Mary Suspect Card 9, 12, 14, 32					Georgie Porgie Suspect Card 11, 14, 30, 33		T E A M E
	Old MacDonald Suspect Card 5, 14, 27					Old Woman Suspect Card 14, 17, 25
		Polly Flinders Suspect Card 2, 14	Ol' "King" Cole Suspect Card 4, 14, 15, 18, 23		Mother Hubbard Suspect Card 13, 19	Tom Tom Suspect Card 7, 14, 16, 20, 22
		TEAM C			TEAM D

So Team A would read out the first Investigation Question (1).  Polly Flinders answers from her Suspect Card (2).  This causes a female mystery witness (Rhoda Whitehorse from Banbury Cross) to give evidence (3). Her evidence makes Ol' "King" Cole speak out (4), which generates a response from Old MacDonald (5).  And so on through to Georgie Porgie concluding the round (33).  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 Tommy Tucker 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 Tom Tom the Piper's Son'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 Tommy Tucker 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