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Trial and Error

A pharmacologist is found dead in her apartment, next to a bottle of the experimental sleeping pill she was testing. It looks like she tried it on herself. The toxicology report says otherwise, and someone she trusted was the last person through her door.

Players
1 to 6
Playing time
90–120 min
Difficulty
Hard
Pages
28

In this file

  • Four police interview records
  • Autopsy and toxicology reports
  • Building access log and camera still
  • The victim's phone: calls and messages
  • A lab notebook and a drug register
  • A clinical-trial database audit trail
  • Emails, bank and card statements
  • Two newspaper front pages
  • A sealed solution
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Look inside the file

A preview of the pages. The details stay sealed until you buy the file.

The pill bottle and tablets found on the kitchen counter.
A toxicology report that changes everything.
A sketch of the apartment and the fifth-floor corridor.
Scene photographs from the apartment.
A page from her lab notebook. Look closely at the date.
The lab's controlled-substances register.
A database audit trail someone hoped nobody would read.
Emails found on her laptop.

How it works

  1. Choose your edition

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  2. Spread out the evidence

    Print the PDF at home or open your envelope. Keep the solution sealed.

  3. Name the killer

    Agree on who, how, when and why. Then open the envelope and see if you were right.