I have at least one murder mystery party at my house each year. In the past I have purchased the mysteries [...] or written them myself. For Christmas, my parents gave me A Taste for Wine and Murder and I was very excited to try a new format. Because I hold these parties fairly often, my friends are familiar with how these mysteries are played and are not easily confused. We played this game with the 6 suspects and two extra characters. My primary complaints are:
1 - The extra characters had very odd parts and the suspects had no response to their accusations. There were confused looks all around the table whenever those characters spoke up.
2 - Characters contradicted themselves from one round to the next. For example, round one: "this guy is like my son". Round two: "He's a twit." No logic whatsoever.
3 - The booklets seem like such a great idea, but it was very unclear about how the characters should use them. The dialogue would end and we would all stare at each other and have to "break character" to figure out how to proceed. "You want to go first? Or should I?"
4 - We still don't really know who did it. When we tried to play the last track of the cd, it went all wonky. No scratches on the disk...it seemed like the original recording used to make the cd was scratched. Very unfortunate, but we had had so much wine at that point, we just laughed at the poor quality of this game.
Before we started, one of the guests asked if we could save the game materials so that his mom could borrow them to have a party of her own. At the end of the night, he said, "Nevermind...I think she can find something better."
Luckily, I have such a fun group of friends we had a great time despite the confusion created by the game. If, however, you were playing this game with people who weren't close friends, you could end up coming off looking like a disorganized host...a pet peeve of mine.Get more detail about Murder Mystery Party - A Taste for Wine and Murder.
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