The best mystery dinner games to play at home 🕵️🍽 2024

Looking for a really good mystery dinner game to play at home 🕵️🍽? We have compared and listed the best German mystery dinner games.

What is a mystery dinner?

The guests of a crime dinner (also dinner crime) meet for a usually multi-course dinner. In the process, a criminal framework is created in which fictitious perpetrators murder fictitious victims - crime dinners are therefore role-playing games. The participants' task is to solve the case like the investigator in a detective story.

Provider On-site or at home

There are event providers who offer this as a bookable experience in a restaurant. And there are providers that offer these experiences as a purchasable game box. We have listed the latter here.

Degree of interaction varies

The degree of interaction varies depending on the provider: in some cases, the guests of the mystery dinner are very much integrated into the game (i.e. like main actors), in others they are more of a spectator.

Thriller even without dinner?

There are also mystery games that do not involve a specific meal in the plot. We have created a separate list for mystery games: The best mystery board games.

List of the best mystery dinner games to play at home 2024 🕵️🍽

This list was last updated on November 30, 2024. We compared 35 board games for this list and selected the top 23. There's also a print version for this list.
  1. Murder Mystery Party: A Taste for Wine and Murder

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  2. Shadow Over Westongrove Manor

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  3. A Recipe for Death

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    • 5 - 7 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  4. Expedition of Death

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    • 5 - 7 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  5. Murder Overboard

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    • 5 - 7 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  6. Murder à la carte: Pasta, Passion & Pistols

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  7. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Tod im London-Express

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  8. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Die Stimme aus dem Jenseits

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  9. Murder à la carte: A Murder on the Grill

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
    • Easy to learn
  10. Dauercamper, Dosenbier und eine Leiche

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
    • Immediately playable
  11. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Tödliches Alpenglühen

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 16+ years old
    • Medium difficulty
  12. Deadly Dinner: Red Carpet in Ruins

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  13. Deadly Dinner: The Last Rose

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    • 5 - 7 Players
    • 180 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  14. Deadly Fame

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    • 5 - 8 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
  15. Murder Mystery Dinner Party: The Curse of the Green Lady

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  16. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Totentanz auf der Titanic

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  17. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Mord in Shanghai

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    • 6 - 8 Players
  18. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Der Pate von Chicago

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 16+ years old
  19. Murder at the Grand Hotel

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  20. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Galopp in den Tod

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    • 6 - 8 Players
    • 180 - 240 Minutes
    • 18+ years old
  21. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Das Rätsel der blutigen Schere

    All details for the board game Mörderische Dinnerparty: Das Rätsel der blutigen Schere and similar games
    • 6 - 10 Players
    • 16+ years old
  22. Mörderische Dinnerparty: Der Rote Engel

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    • 6 - 10 Players
    • 180 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old
  23. Ihr Herz schlug Schlager

    All details for the board game Ihr Herz schlug Schlager and similar games
    • 5 - 7 Players
    • 120 - 240 Minutes
    • 16+ years old

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