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A mystery case you print, open and solve together. No app. No setup. Just a table, a pencil and a good hour or two.
It happens to everyone, and it isn't a character flaw — an empty evening just needs a plan that's already written down. So we write them: a case in an envelope, printed and ready, with one thing to do and someone to do it with.
Photographs, clippings, a telegram nobody can explain. Move your light across the board.
Ruth Calloway
Berth 2 · Carriage B
SLEEPER ARRIVES ONE SHORT
The Evening Ledger · p.1
Nine boarded at 11:52. Eight stepped off at dawn. The railway will not comment on berth four.
Daniel Marsh
Boarded with two bags
Who locked it from inside?
Door bolted. Window painted shut. Ask the conductor about the 12:40 round.
DO NOT WAIT FOR ME STOP BURN THE LEDGER STOP R
Nell Harrow
Dining car · last drinks
Any home printer will do it — about 20 pages, black and white is fine. A print shop works too if you'd rather it be crisp.
Read the briefing out loud, hand out the suspect files, and spread the evidence across the table. Two minutes of setup.
Compare clues, argue about timings, change your mind twice, make your accusation — then open the sealed solution.
Case no. 001 · Briefing
The 11:52 sleeper left the city with nine passengers aboard and arrived with eight. Berth four is empty. The door was locked from the inside. Everyone on this train has a reason to be on it, and one of them is lying about which.
Case no. 001A midnight sleeper train and one missing passenger.
Case no. 002A will reading in a house with a locked study.
Case no. 003A dinner party where someone poisoned the wine.
Case no. 004Every guest checked in under a false name.
Case no. 005A stolen painting, four suspects, one forged alibi.
Case no. 006Letters from a keeper who vanished in 1962.
Any one case. One evening, sorted.
$13.00 per case
Any three cases. Enough for a month of decent Fridays.
$8.17 per case
All six cases, every one we've printed so far.
Bundles are instant downloads too. You pick your cases on the order page.
This is the easiest puzzle in any of our cases. Solve it and we'll hand you a code for your first one.
The coded word is ODQWHUQ, shifted forward by three letters.
Witness statement · fragment
"I only saw it for a second on the platform. Then it went out, and the whole carriage went dark."
Everything here is printed, which is why no app can do it for you.
Because these are instant digital files, they can't be sent back — so instead we'll swap you into a different case, help you fix a night that stalled, or refund you. Tell us what happened and we'll sort it.
One page, one printer, about fifteen minutes. A good way to find out whether your table likes this sort of thing.
One email with the file, then only when a new case is ready.