The Ballot, 22:00 - Printable PDF Murder Mystery Party Kit

A town counting centre on polling night, and a tie nobody can rule on.

FOR FANS OF · Knives Out, Agatha Christie, and closed-circle mysteries

A printable murder mystery party game for 6-12 players and 1 host. Instant download. 110-140 minutes. Plays around a table or over a video call — and if you play online, there is nothing to print at all.

EVERY CLUE IS A DOCUMENT

Tally sheets, a counting-room log, a returning officer's record, a ballot that should not exist. There is no artwork to look at, nothing to cut out, nothing to assemble. You read the paperwork, you compare it, and you notice what does not line up. That is also why it plays exactly as well over voice chat as it does around a table.

WHAT YOU GET

9 PDFs — Read Me First / Host Script / Evidence Set, 14 records / 6 player booklets, one each. A4, prints fine on US Letter.

BEFORE YOU BUY

• 1 host + 6-12 players. The host does not play

• 110-140 minutes

• Single use. Once you know the solution you cannot play it again

• Deals with a death and with things people hide at work

• No gore or violence is depicted

• English edition. Originally written and published in Japanese

The election in this game is invented, and so is the town. No real municipality, election, party, organisation or person appears in it. The procedure has been simplified so that it plays.

YOU MAY

Stream it, record it, post let's-plays — monetized ones included. No permission or notice needed. Host it for other people, paid or unpaid. Protected under the Copyright Act of Japan. Please do not resell or redistribute the files.

THE SERIES

Standalone titles, from 2 players to 16. In every one of them, all of the evidence is text.

HOW THIS WAS MADE

Written with AI assistance (Claude, by Anthropic), then edited and checked by a human before release.

Ai-Q Labs makes murder mysteries in which all the evidence is text. Scenarios, from 2 to 16 players.

Ages 15+. No gender requirement for any role.