Tabletop Detective

Games, puzzles, movies, TV shows, books, articles, detective gear, and more for the at-home sleuth who loves a good mystery.

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When a string of deaths strikes the Abernathy Retirement Community, your grandfather,...

Released:
2022

This is the second game in the series of "Scarlet Envelope" games. Play in order to u...

Released:
2020

Designed after the book "A Death in Paris" this puzzle features significant moments a...

Every organized sleuth needs a set of note cards outlining what you know about your s...

Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick. John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. ...

Released:
2002
Streaming on:
Netflix

The Emerald Flame is a narrative tabletop puzzle game told in three parts. Commission...

Well dressed guests gather in the parlor of Bedfor Manor, but someone has murdered th...

B is for Birthday mystery...Discover why this birthday party has gone to the dogs.

R...

A is for Arson's mystery...Benji Patel's restaurant lies in ashes, a charred body has...

Wheelchair-bound photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies spies on his neighbors from his G...

Released:
1954

Some secret messages need decrypting, others are simply hiding in plain sight. Grab a...

Detective: City of Angels, set in the dark and violent world of 1940s Los Angeles, is...

Released:
2019

For all your notes on suspects, motives, timelines, and more—these spiral-bound note...

Solve the mystery of the Curse of Blackwood Hall. Some things will change between the...

In a world under the sea, not too dissimilar to ours, inhabitants flow through their ...

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist accepts an invitation to surreptitiously invest...

Released:
2011

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family...

Released:
2019

Bad Times at the El Royale is a 2018 neo-noir thriller set in the late 1960s at the E...

Released:
2018

Mortum: Medieval Detective is a game of deduction and adventures that takes place in ...

Released:
2021

As a hunting party gathers at the country estate, no one is aware that before the wee...

Released:
2001

UNDO: 600 Seconds places you in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Right now, the main ch...

Released:
2020

Sherlock Holmes has a reputation for solving the most complex mysteries. With the aid...

Released:
2009

Suppose for a moment that Dr. Watson was the real brains behind Sherlock Holmes. The ...

Released:
1988
Streaming on:
Apple TV

A ladykiller prowls the Carolina woods...and Detective Alex Cross tracks his murderou...

Released:
1997
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Get ready to enter the poor and dreary Whitechapel district in London 1888 – the sce...

Released:
2011

A real investigation in a deck of cards! "His Last Card" will take you to 1980s Brook...

Released:
2020

Chronicles of Crime is an award-winning cooperative game of criminal investigation mi...

Released:
2018

Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, L.A. Confidential follows police officers Ed Exley, ...

Released:
1997

Decode Caesar Ciphers with this classic sleuth tool. Sometimes an online tool just is...

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a ...

Released:
1997
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Jot down what you know about your suspects, timelines, means, motive, and opportunity...

The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of ...

Released:
2006
Streaming on:
Peacock

An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off b...

Released:
2013

On the cobblestone streets of 1897 London, some suspicious "mousechief" sets the scen...

Released:
1986
Streaming on:
Disney+

Your friend’s mysterious disappearance results in the discovery of an unusual item, ...

Released:
2022

What if you had the chance to travel back in time and change just one event in your l...

Released:
2000

Take the job of a real detective in a modern setting! In Detective: A Modern Crime Bo...

Released:
2018

A small-time thief Harry Lockhart unintentionally ends up in the world of Hollywood a...

Released:
2005

When the kidnapping of a 4-year-old Amanda McCready baffles Boston police desperate t...

Released:
2007
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Paycheck follows Michael Jennings, a revers...

Released:
2003
Streaming on:
Paramount+

INVESTIGATE A MURDER: A high profile case has suddenly landed in your hands...A 47 ye...

When Katie Dunn, an employee at a seaside amusement park, turns up dead inside a popu...

Released:
2021

It is night time and you and your criminal investigation colleagues have been summone...

Released:
2016

It's 1954 and World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels and his ...

Released:
2010
Streaming on:
Netflix

A strange, enigmatic deck of cards has fallen into your hands via the renowned Infini...

Released:
2019

During the era of Prohibition, U.S. Treasury Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthle...

Released:
1987
Streaming on:
Showtime

For those shipwrecked on the beach of this forgotten island, a chained boat is the on...

Released:
2017

The story begins when ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, promptin...

Released:
2019

Death In The Desert is a 1000 piece mystery jigsaw puzzle designed and written by art...

C is for Chocolate's mystery...Death is no stranger to the Happydale Nursing Home, bu...

When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles...

Released:
1993

Welcome to Crime City – a city with crime lurking around every corner. Deadly secret...

Released:
2020

Every at-home sleuth needs access to a large, quality evidence board. Organize your s...

This the ORIGINAL Retroworks Secret Window Cipher. It is a basic substitution cipher,...

The noise of a carriage breaks the silence surrounding the Tudor mansion. The duke Ed...

Released:
2019

In this all-in-one box, players will solve the murder of Rachel Veinson, a stewardess...

Released:
2022

The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California co...

Released:
2002

Visualize connections between your pinned suspects, timelines, means, motive, and opp...

Libby Parsons, a Seattle wife and mother caught in a nightmare when she's convicted o...

Released:
1999
Streaming on:
HBO Max

In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobste...

Released:
2015

Descend into this dingy, dusty cellar to solve the hidden riddles and claim your righ...

Director Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of double-cross and intrigue in which former ...

Released:
1954

Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers. She's gotten so cl...

Released:
1995

Teenage loner Brendan pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring ...

Released:
2005

A top secret excavation did not bring any result for 28 weeks. It was on the 29th wee...

Released:
2017

Berlin, Germany, January 1994: Stunned, an old lady falls over the handrails and into...

Released:
2019

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsess...

Released:
2007

Put your crime-solving wits to the test with codes, ciphers, and more mind-bending pu...

Released:
2022

The murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Mr. Boddy host...

Released:
1985
Streaming on:
Prime Video

What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the...

Released:
2017
Streaming on:
Disney+

Whether you're up against a criminal mastermind who encoded his manifesto, or have su...

F is for Feline's mystery...A puuurfectly puzzling good time. Figure out who killed K...

Memento follows Leonard Shelby, a man suffering from anterograde amnesia, a condition...

Released:
2000
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Solve the "Amusement Park Plight" to repair the train track and escape this creepy ca...

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come t...

Released:
2022
Streaming on:
HBO Max

Computer hacker Martin heads a group of specialists who test the security of various ...

Released:
1992
Streaming on:
Starz

In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has ...

Released:
2017

The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on th...

Released:
1976

When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's sister) discovers that her mother has gone missing on h...

Released:
2020
Streaming on:
Netflix

5-Minute Mystery is a high-intensity, deductive, mystery game in which players work t...

Released:
2020

Hang your suspects, timelines, means, motive, and opportunity on your evidence board ...

In this notorious game, an inversion of Clue, you hate Doctor Lucky. Maybe he left yo...

Released:
1996

A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a brutal murder, forcing him and his...

Released:
2002
Streaming on:
Paramount+

Clarice Starling, a gutsy young FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an...

Released:
1991
Streaming on:
HBO Max

dCode is the universal site for decipher coded messages, cheating on letter games, so...

During the darkest days of World War II, the English mathematical genius and logician...

Released:
2014
Streaming on:
Netflix

A murder at the local dive bar. A mysterious, masked figure. A small town full of sus...

Released:
2020

In Mr. Jack, one of the two players represents Jack the Ripper, who will be one of th...

Released:
2006

Young Sherlock Holmes follows the adventures of young John Watson when he is shipped ...

Released:
1985

As the night wears on and the food dished up to the hungry customers they realise t...

The ghost of a young girl is haunting a Scottish manor, and the echoes of the past hi...

Released:
2021

Struggling for the perfect gift for a discerning sleuth? Looking for a clever way to ...

Julia Adler recently found a mummified corpse in the attic of her family-owned theate...

Released:
2020

Calling all super sleuths! The Orient Express is much more than just a jigsaw puzzle,...

The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the c...

Released:
2016

It's 1947 Hollywood, and Eddie Valiant, a down-on-his-luck detective, is hired to fin...

Released:
1988
Streaming on:
Disney+

Show off your mystery-solving prowess with this cotton t-shirt declaring "I solve mys...

Three childhood best friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a ...

Released:
2003
Streaming on:
HBO Max

No more struggling to see the tiny details of your mystery. This rechargeable 4X read...

Show off your mystery-solving prowess with this unisex heavy blend sweatshirt declari...