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  THE MURDER OF MRS WHYTE 

The table top version of "The Murder of Mrs Whyte" is a specially written version of the full party game that can be played by 4 to 8 players.

All players will be allocated to one of four teams (Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D).  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 Casey "Catch 'em" Trent (and possibly the devious journalist Sassy Sweet)
       ♦  Team B will be voicing Laura Woodcock and Professor Eric Plum
       ♦  Team C will be voicing the Reverend Lidius P Beane and his niece Fleur Rouge
       ♦  Team D will be voicing Dr. Charlotte Black and Richard Tarragon

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		Casey Trent Character Booklet		9 Investigation Question Cards 3, 11, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29
T E A M B	Laura Woodcock Suspect Card 2, 17, 19									Richard Tarragon Suspect Card 8, 10, 30	T E A M D
	Professor Bloom Suspect Card 6, 15, 26									Dr. Charlotte Black Suspect Card 4, 9, 12, 16, 21
				Reverend Beane Suspect Card 7, 23, 28		Fleur Rouge Suspect Card 1, 5, 13, 25
				TEAM C

So the person voicing Fleur Rouge on Team C would read out the first item from her suspect card (1).  This causes Laura Woodcock to give a response (2).  Her answer leads to Team A asking a question (3) and Dr. Charlotte Black has the answer (4).  And so on all the way through until Richard Tarragon concludes the round (30).  By this time both Clue Object 1 and Clue Document 1 in the middle 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 Casey Trent 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 Fleur Rouge'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 Casey Trent 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