{
  "id": "halloween-murder-mystery",
  "title": "No Ghost Speaks: A Halloween Murder Mystery Game",
  "catalogNo": "AGC · 037",
  "genre": "Murder mystery game",
  "shelf": "mystery",
  "summary": "A Halloween murder mystery game for 12 and over, one to eight at one screen: five suspects, twelve exhibits, every answer and lie sealed before play.",
  "tagline": "Five supper guests under identical white sheets, one of them a killer: your AI plays them all, your table asks the questions, and the answer was sealed before the first.",
  "players": "1-8",
  "sessionMinutes": [
    45,
    75
  ],
  "rating": "12+",
  "isFree": true,
  "playedIn": [
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude"
  ],
  "status": "playable",
  "url": "https://aigamecards.com/games/halloween-murder-mystery/",
  "loadUrl": "https://aigamecards.com/g/halloween-murder-mystery/card-1e41e49ad018.txt",
  "system": "https://aigamecards.com/g/halloween-murder-mystery/SYSTEM.md",
  "loadPrompt": "Let's play a game. Fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/halloween-murder-mystery/card-1e41e49ad018.txt and run it as the game — it's a complete, self-contained prompt. If that link won't open, fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/halloween-murder-mystery/SYSTEM.md, the same card. The card's sealed answer file is https://aigamecards.com/g/halloween-murder-mystery/reveal-dabd73b7b70e.md: fetch it when the card says to, and keep it from me until the card says to show it. If the card or its sealed file won't open, don't start without them: tell me this game needs a chat that can open links. Be the game master and begin.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Can ChatGPT host a Halloween murder mystery party?",
      "a": "Not reliably on its own: a plain chat holds no fixed culprit, so its clues drift and an alibi can contradict the evidence it was built on. No Ghost Speaks fixes the night first. Five guests went under identical white sheets at a Halloween supper, and twelve exhibits, two children's sightings among them, decide who was under which sheet. The exhibits, every line the five can say and the lies they tell were written before play. A script checked the exhibits and the lies against a single timeline: exactly one suspect fits all twelve, and the same one still fits alone with any one exhibit taken away. Then the file was sealed under SHA-256."
    },
    {
      "q": "Do the guests play the suspects?",
      "a": "No. The table investigates, and your AI speaks for all five: the son, daughter and nephew of Isa Rintoul, the woman found dead, with the village schoolmistress and the auctioneer from the mart. They were the ghosts at the supper. The table hears each round's evidence together and puts five questions a round to them, seat by seat, with one person at the keyboard."
    },
    {
      "q": "How long does it take, and how many can play?",
      "a": "Up to eight players around one screen, roughly an hour: three rounds of evidence, fifteen questions, then one accusation. Played alone it is the same case and the same score. Say \"save\" between rounds to carry on in a new chat."
    },
    {
      "q": "Is it a good Halloween party game for families?",
      "a": "For players aged 12 and up, yes. The killing is told plainly and without gore, and the two children in the house never see the violence. The Host asks only for first names or nicknames."
    },
    {
      "q": "What does the seal prove, and does the chat have to open a link?",
      "a": "The seal proves that the culprit, the evidence and every suspect's lines were fixed before your first question; you can rebuild the hash at aigamecards.com/verify. It does not prove that every answer the AI gave was right, and the score is your table's own record. The Host fetches the sealed file at load, so the chat must be able to open a link, and pasting the file yourself would show you the answer. ChatGPT opens it; aigamecards.com/launch-matrix shows which other apps do."
    }
  ]
}