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Murder at Okafor's Toy Emporium

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Halloween night, 1988. At 11:52 PM, retired toymaker Walter Finch is found dead in the front display window of Okafor's Toy Emporium, posed in a throne-shaped Santa chair with his famous wind-up Wendell doll in his lap. The store has been locked and alarmed since closing, but the scene is not wha…

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Hard difficulty · 2-8 players · 45-60 min · 3 objectives

About this case

Halloween night, 1988. At 11:52 PM, retired toymaker Walter Finch is found dead in the front display window of Okafor's Toy Emporium, posed in a throne-shaped Santa chair with his famous wind-up Wendell doll in his lap. The store has been locked and alarmed since closing, but the scene is not what it seems: fixed lividity says Finch died somewhere else, heat lamps have distorted the apparent time of death, and somebody carefully arranged the window hours after the fatal blow. Five people are hiding dangerous truths about that night — a store owner blocked from a million-dollar sale, a sleeping guard with a falsified patrol log, a designer copying stolen blueprints, a performer concealing her family name, and a stock boy whose inventory is thirty-one consoles short. Determine who killed Finch, who staged the body, and why those answers are not the same.

Setting: Okafor's Toy Emporium, 1988

How to play

  1. Host creates a room. One player clicks “Unlock for $4.99” and gets a 6-character room code and QR code.
  2. Everyone joins. Share the code — players join from any browser. No download, no account required to join.
  3. Investigate together. Examine evidence, debate suspects, and crack the case in 45-60 min.

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