Murder of a Marine Biologist

What a great game!! Purchased for a family games night and it lasted for hours. We were able to discuss the evidence and only when we reviewed it all did we compare our notes to the hints did we see we had been on the money for the most part. Will be definitely purchasing another one for a future games night.

Interesting game, two of us played and took good few hours to complete.

Enjoyed this one! Did solo over a few nights and enjoyed ruling out people. Solved it but still missed some great clues after reading the case summary.

It was great fun, bought it for a hang out with my college mates we started doing it at 11pm and then gave up at around 1am cause we got confused spent 3 days trying to figure out what we were doing wrong to realise we were reading too deeply into thing (tbh tho some things that you get told from some of the information is IRRELEVANT or doesn't mean anything) we got stuck for so long and then we looked at the hints get 5 in total 5th one tells you the answer and we went through all 5 to be completely confused because we already had all the info the hints gave us so we usued the fith one snd only read the first sentence to realise we had the answer all along just kept skipping over it and then the part two that you get in the pack we did significantly quicker however you gotta look at things for part one when doing part two others you're going to miss so many things but we managed to solve it we all had fun was a little annoying that it took us so long for very simple things but all in all for our first time doing one it was good. It came with all the information even if you were missing things you can find the missing pieces from a link they give you, all of the things we were given we're very good things like cards and photos were made very well i highly recommend this if you're looking for something to do it's definitely worth the money and it's easy to set up with a group of people or yourself :)

It’s a real brain twister great to do with friends and family I would recommend this to people who are good at puzzles

Good challenging mysteries. Not completely obvious and a good brain-teasing alternative for date night. 3-4 hours of mystery solving involved. Ordered 1 and then ordered more. Shared them out with the fam too - hope to do one at the next family games night.

Very well designed! Plenty of riddles and relatively complex scenario. Second one we do from the same company, highly recommend!

Great fun! Really well put together. Played it as a family and took a team effort to solve. Highly recommend these puzzles! Kept the TV off for two evenings!

My partner and I (both in our early 30s) enjoy doing these sorts of murder mystery packages together for date nights, and this was our first "Cryptic Killers" box. We really enjoyed it! The story was fun and I liked the mix of some puzzles with a lot of logical thinking and piecing things together. We talked through a lot of stuff together, which is always fun when you're doing these as a pair/group. We also thought everything was fair -- no wide leaps in logic or any guessing games were needed on our end. Everything made sense when we connected the right clues together. The documents were also well-made overall (some typos here and there, but nothing major) and high-quality. We read through everything and this ended up taking us a few hours over a couple of nights, so it was totally worth the money. The ONLY thing is we would have loved it if it was all on paper with no real online elements -- this game has a few online clues/pieces of evidence and we didn't have a laptop with us when we did it, so we were having to read them on our phones. It wasn't a huge deal, and mostly a personal preference. We'll be getting more of these in the future for sure!

Absolutely really enjoyed the case! We love the elimination cold cases as you need to do your due diligence in going through the evidence. Thanks for putting this together and we look forward to purchasing your other packages!

If you ever played game of this sort you will be heavily dissapointed. The case file consists only of 2 folders with paper hints, nothing much else. The riddle is written very poorly, and the main difficulty is not in solving it but undertanding what the creator had in mind. I agree with other people being dissapointed in the clues not leading you in an organised way to a conclusion - after all you have only 2 tasks. Only will give one extra star for the print quality, as it wasnt bad at all, but its only because it wasnt terrible. Will definitely not buy any more games from this author as its very dissapointing - 'detective for a day' stories are much much better.

This was absolutely fun. We actually did this on our road trip! Keeps you going with good amount of clues. Recommend this.

Super fun. Well thought out. Engaging and actually makes you think and collaborate with your fellow detectives. Pay attention! Details matter. Will definitely play again.