present day, a small city centre, The Rolling Dice, a board game cafe on a rainy Tuesday night
Meeple and Murder
Dom N lies dead at The Rolling Dice, the board game cafe gone silent on a rainy Tuesday night — and only three people in that room could have done it.
- Difficulty
- easy
- Time
- 20–35 min
- Suspects
- 3
- Rooms
- 5
- Exhibits
- 11
- Kind
- Cozy
- World
- Present day
- Price
- Free
The death
Dom N. A tall ginger man with a well-kept moustache, still wearing the lanyard from the tournament he was running. Found dead at The Rolling Dice, a board game cafe on a rainy Tuesday night, still smelling of spilled coffee and old cardboard. A tournament final had ended that evening in a furious quarrel over a disputed rule. Everyone present had reason to keep on Dom N's good side — and at least one of them had far better reason not to. Found: the Rolling Dice, a board game cafe on a rainy Tuesday night.
Everyone here
Every one of them has a version of that night. One of them is lying about murder.
- Alex Dtournament organiser
- Jamie Hcafe barista
- George Hgames shop owner
Where it happened
The Tournament Table
The felt-topped table where Dom N was found among the scattered dice. Nothing has been moved; the air still holds the shape of the evening.
The Café Entrance
The rain-spattered doorway everyone crossed twice that evening — once arriving out of the wet, once when the shouting started.
The Games Floor
Rows of tables and shelved boxes where the evening carried on regardless, and everyone swears they stayed in plain view of somebody.
The Stockroom
Boxes of spare pieces, tournament scorebooks, and the quiet paperwork a cafe like this quietly runs on.
The Office
The one door in the place that was usually kept shut — Dom N's own cramped corner of the evening.
Contains: murder
Before you start
- Is Meeple and Murder free to play?
- Yes. Meeple and Murder plays free in any browser with no download and no account. Culprit is free to play.
- How hard is Meeple and Murder?
- It is rated easy — a good first case — the contradictions are findable without a notebook. There are 3 suspects, 5 locations and 11 exhibits to find.
- How long does Meeple and Murder take to solve?
- About 20–35 minutes. You can leave and come back — the case remembers where you were.
- Can the suspects actually lie to me?
- Yes. Each suspect is played by an AI actor with something to protect, and they will deflect, misremember and lie outright. What they cannot do is change the facts of the case: every case is proved solvable before it is published, so the contradiction is always there to be found.
