News and photos

Issue No 27:
15 October 2004

Welcome to our twenty-seventh PartyChitChat. Just to let you know our news first:

• We have produced two of our kits on CDs Celebrity Celebrations and Who Killed Santa?. We hope to gradually roll out CD versions of other kits. Initially these will only be on sale in stores in Australia during our trial run.
• In the coming months, we are going to be trying to find distributors in the USA, UK and other countries. If you are a retailer and would like to stock our CDs or if you know of suitable distributors, please let us know via info@merrimysteries.com.

• We have created meet and mingle versions for 30 guests for Mystery In The Library, Who Stole The Cookies?, Storm Survivors and Death On The Mound. These are available for $29.95 each.

• Our photo competition winners

Our photo competition winners

We received some very interesting photos for this competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. The three winners are:

• Jackie Overton (USA) for a photo from her daughter's Who Stole The Cookies? party
• Simon Dewar (Australia) for a group photo from his Murder Of The Great Chef party
• Karen Tinsley (USA) for a group photo from her Murder On The Prairie party.

We are commencing a new competition with a closing date of 1 December 2004 (see photos.htm for details).

Jackie sent in this feedback about her party:

"I just wanted to send a few pics taken at my daughters 50th birthday party..........What a fun time all had.........we had 50 plus attend........fun was had by adults and children..........thank you for a memorable party........To save this memory, I took pictures and transferred them to material squares and I am having a quilt made. Thanks again for all your help to make this a memorable "50th" for our daughter....Jackie Overton

PS: I will highly recommend your parties to anyone !!"

See Jackie's photos on the right hand side of this page.

Here are two of the photos from Jackie's daughter's "Who Stole The Cookies?" party:

Simon sent in this feedback about "Murder Of The Great Chef":

"It was such a cool night and everyone (even the shy) had an absolute ball. By the end of the night everyone was really getting into their characters. Only one person guessed the killer and that was the killer themselves. We had prizes for best costume, best over actor, and of course who guessed the killer.

We're planning on running the Celebrity Celebrations one real soon. Thanks again and hope to talk with you guys some more.

Regards,

Simon 'Digger' Dewar"

Here is Simon's group photo from his "Murder Of The Great Chef" party:

Karen sent in this feedback:

"We had a wonderful time at the party. I had friends and co-workers there who didn't even know each other, and they all interacted wonderfully as part of the mystery. I had the mix and mingle kit, and it was so much fun. One of the ladies (who played Margaret Read) said it was the most fun she had had in YEARS! Everyone here at work wants to know if we're going to make it an annual event (I did this for my 30th birthday party). Everyone was excited when we came back to work on Monday. They were all on your website looking for mysteries they could host on their own! Thanks, Karen Tinsley"

Here is Karen's group photo from her "Murder On The Prairie" party: