About Murder at Mørkholm Manor
Murder at Mørkholm Manor is an escape room for adults and a classic murder mystery in one. The year is 1926, and a storm is howling around the old manor house of Mørkholm. You arrived on the last train, just before the bridge was swept away, and dinner was already over. At 11 pm the butler, Krag, finds the count lifeless in his armchair in the library. The telephone is dead, the police cannot come before dawn, and one of the six guests is a murderer.
You search the library, the dining room, the kitchen and the conservatory. You pull volumes out of the bookcase in the right order, put the place cards back according to the count’s seating plan, hold the bell book by the bell board up against the guests’ statements, compare the bottles in the poison cabinet with the gardener’s book and bring invisible ink to light with a candle. Finally Krag gathers the guests in the library, and you must say who did it, where the poison was and why.
The puzzles are made for adults, and most of them can only be solved by putting several clues together. That makes this online escape room a great team building activity and something different for the office party. If you play on a TV, letters, books and lists are shared out across your phones, so you have to talk to each other. The murderer, the poison and the motive change every time, and the help button gives hints in three steps.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the manor on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read Krag’s letter. It tells you what you need to find out and how to get further.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look, and switch rooms with the buttons at the top. Locked rooms open along the way.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Tap two items in the bag one after the other to combine them.
- Once you have seen Krag’s notebook, the poison cabinet and the count’s writing desk, pull the bell cord in the library and make your accusation. Press Hint if you get stuck.