The Tea Room, 14:00 - Printable PDF Murder Mystery Party Kit

Three to six people (up to 9 with teams). No host, no game master, nobody sitting the round out.

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

A printable murder mystery party game for 3-6 players (up to 9 with teams). Instant download. 60-75 minutes. Plays around a table or over a video call — and if you play online, there is nothing to print at all.

WHAT YOU GET

8 PDFs — Read Me First / Game Script / three character booklets, one each / Clues, Act 1 / Clues, Act 2 / Solution, open last. A4, prints fine on US Letter.

BEFORE YOU BUY

• 3-6 players. No host and no GM — everyone at the table plays

• 60-75 minutes

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

• You each need a pen and paper for the ending

• Contains a death, an inheritance, and a thirty-year-old grievance

• No gore or violence is depicted

• Digital download — no physical item ships

• English edition. Originally written and published in Japanese

The tea house, the family, the potter, the bowl and every person in this story are invented. No real tea house, temple, school, organisation or person appears in it.

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+. The three characters have set genders, but your own gender need not match.