Hostess / Estate Heiress
Lady Vesper Ashcroft
Staff log places her near the library corridor between 11:21 and 11:27. Needs confirmation.
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You are cordially invited
ONE GUEST IS DEAD. SIX HAVE MOTIVES. YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
Choose a suspect. Search the rooms. Pin the evidence. Decide which one of these beautiful liars is telling the truth.
Time until midnight
The Incident · Saturday, May 18th · 11:40 PM
This is your final notice before midnight.
Estate key
Flute stain
Play the Investigation
A luxury mystery game, not a landing page.
Cluedo grew up, got rich, and developed a drinking problem. Choose who to watch, interrogate beautiful liars, unlock recordings and torn letters, pin evidence to your theory, rebuild the night, then accuse before midnight.
Estate Exploration
Every room remembers something different.
Trace the route from cocktail hour to the locked east wing. The manor’s polite symmetry hides servant passages, duplicate keys, and a greenhouse door no one admits using.
Ballroom: a waltz repeats beneath a recorded argument.
Library: one page is cut cleanly from a private diary.
Wine Cellar: a receipt lists a delivery no one signed for.
Guest Wing: a candle burned blue for exactly nine minutes.
Ballroom
Conservatory
Library
Greenhouse
Grand Hall
Wine Cellar
Guest Wing
Hidden Passage
Clock Landing
Evidence Room
Nothing is pinned by accident.
Receipts, photographs, recordings, torn paper, and fingerprints begin to point toward one another — but the red string is not telling the whole truth.
Photo / 11:38 PM
Photograph: west terrace
Background reflection shows one extra figure near the terrace doors. Identity unresolved.
Receipt / Cellar
Cellar purchase receipt
Absinthe order was signed with staff initials, but charged to Lady Ashcroft’s account.
Travel / Alibi
Train ticket stub
Ticket paper shows platform wear and damp soil. Time stamp needs verification.
Paper / Library
Diary page fragment
Page was removed cleanly. Only “before the toast” remains readable.
Print / Glassware
Champagne flute print
Partial ridge pattern found on the stem. Powder residue suggests gloves were handled nearby.
Audio / Ballroom
Recording device fragment
Short voice spike appears under piano audio at 11:51. Speaker not yet identified.
Timeline Reconstruction
Rebuild the evening before the clock does.
7:30
Guests arrive under amber rain. Theo takes all room keys “for polishing.”
9:12
A toast is interrupted by a remark about inheritance, fiction, and unpaid debts.
11:42
The greenhouse door opens from the inside. A pearl falls. No one mentions the rain.
11:57
The ballroom recording catches a whisper beneath the final piano chord.
12:00
The grandfather clock stops. A champagne flute breaks in the east wing.
The Incident
Midnight arrives before the truth does.
In the east wing, the room is arranged almost too carefully: a broken flute, a stopped pocket watch, a burned letter, and an invitation that should never have been touched.
12:00
broken flute
invitation
burned letter
Time until midnight
Before midnight
Make Your Final Accusation
Name the guest, pin the evidence, and reconstruct the minute before midnight.
Step 1 — Choose suspect
Step 2 — Choose two evidence items
Select exactly two evidence items.
Step 3 — Choose timeline explanation
Ashcroft Estate · Confidential invitation · Do not arrive after midnight