Wailua Mystery Manor

One day Adam and I were sitting in our large empty house and thinking, "Man, this would be such a fun house to play real life Clue in." It's a full two story house with tons of rooms and we're the only ones living here. And so it began.

We invited six couples. All they were told was they were invited to a dinner party and to wear an assigned color. The invitations looked like this:

Adam and I spent close to a month getting everything ready. We made up clues and answer sheets and detective packets and "Confidential" envelopes which we hid throughout the house. There were eight rooms included and we decided it would be fun to play a game in each room and the winner of the game would get their clue first (and therefore have more time to mull it over) and so on down the line. We made nametags (aka Suspect Cards) for each guest and colored envelopes to match their team.

Everyone showed up for dinner (looking splendid in their colors) and we had a great meal. At the end of the meal Adam and I informed our guests that we had some bad news. While they were eating a murder had happened and since they were here they were all now suspects. There were clues taped under their seats. Good luck.

Allow me to introduce the suspects:

Squanto and Squire Squash

Hermana and Hermano Hershey

PhD and Professor Pumpkin

Count and Countess Crimson

Viceroy and Vice Verde

Admiral and Ambassador Azure

And finally the hosts, Mister and Mrs. Midnight




Our games ranged from get to know you, to relays, to guess what your spouse would say, to logic puzzles, to paper-rock-scissors tournaments, to Chubby Bunny and finally a trivia basketball shoot off. I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard. Everyone was so hilarious and they were such good sports about going along with everything we had planned. They made it so fun.

At the end there was a race to find their last clues and then be in the room where the murder took place holding the weapon and blowing their whistles so we could come check and see if they were right. It took a few tries, but finally we had a winner...

Congratulations to Squire and Squanto Squash. They were right-- it was the Verdes in the Hall with the Candlestick.

Maybe it's appropriate that they won because besides being dressed in head to toe yellow, they were also the only team that brought treats to share with the other players--all in yellow of course (don't you love Matt's ruffles and Leslie's "Fleece on Earth, Good Wool toward Men"?)

All in all it was such a fun night. Adam and I had such a great time planning it and then hosting all the events. I'm not kidding when I tell you I laughed the whole night. My belly ached the next day. We couldn't even pick favorite parts of the night because there were too many of them. Our only regret was that we couldn't have had more friends join us. But no worries, this definitely won't be our last party. A big shout out to all our great friends who came and made this such a fun memory for us. Until next year!