Dead Mans Hands
I know it’s a tad out of date order but I thought I better blog this groovy event a few months ago! Hosted by ‘A Door in a Wall” events.
So right you know I’m into all this signing up for bizzaro stuff and then roping along my unsuspecting friends? Well on the 6th May I did this to poor Pac Sam. Hence we headed down to the Grand Union (@grandunionbars) by Smithfield Market, Farrigndon, for an evening or murder, mystery and apparently dodgy poker.
So Pac Sam and I entered the downstairs ‘poker den’ only to bed pounced upon by a female bouncer! She was pretty on it, prying to see if we had bombs or drugs in our bags….asking us if she could have any of our drugs……after gaining her seal of approval we headed in and were greeted by Chip’s poker den……..
So as there were only 2 of us, we teamed up with 2 cool girls. The team ‘two of a kind’ became ‘2 x 2 of a kind’, thank god we did because we’d have been absolute shite otherwise
So after collecting our detective pack we were hushed by chip the (cockney?) bar owner.
Our mission?
Find Jack Spades killer.
The suspects?
Only 3. Paul, Brian & Misty. All linked to the victim. All with a motive to kill him. Follow the clues.
You have 2 hours. Go.
So with the help of our extremely attentive teammates (luckily as saying ‘help’ makes us sound like we were any sort of use at all….) we spent the next 2 hours roving round Farrington. I have to say the clues were really pretty damn cool.
The clues lead us everywhere! From interrogating den employees about the murder weapon by myself wearing a TV satellite as a chastity belt, Sam pretending he was from Hogwarts with a microphone as a broom and one of our teammates wearing a moustache……
To playing golf with a crazy guy and attempting to discover the 3 suspects card hands (they were playing with Jack the evening he was murdered and someone won the car with the golf club murder weapon in)…………..
And even performing surgery!!!
The calibre of the clues were awesome, each one led on to another part and created like a daisy chain of clues! You had to be ON IT to get them, but that was good it made it challenging but not impossible.
I think some of the best bits were a creepy care bear that had a voice message inside and having to text a fishy fellow who then phoned us in a red telephone box! I proper felt like Sherlock Holmes, well Watson I was definitely the kooky sidekick.
They even had a clue where you had to log on to Instagram and pick the right sayings from the Holborn Mural, epic!
Due to our fanny arsing around we didn’t get to one clue, so we dashed back tail between legs to make the 8.30pm curfew. However our team and I filed our report and actually got the right killer! In a nutshell Jack had been blackmailing one of them for money so he knocked him off. The only problem was our reasoning had been slightly patchy and skewed. So despite not winning the whole evening was a booming success! Sadly the winners didn’t buy the next round however we met some ace new people and had a whole load of murder mystery fun. The evening was topped off with some fab food and a couple of drinks after which we wandered home at a respectable hour.
I’ll definitely be looking out for A Door in the Wall’s future productions! Hats off guys to some kooky acting and head scratching clues.
London Love
xoxoxo
Rating:
Price: £25 for an evenings entertainment, not too bad by London standards soo…. 3.5/5
Atmosphere/Acting: Really great atmosphere, the actors involved you and made you feel welcome. Also helped you along with clues! The clues were also really awesome. Some of the acting was quite eccentric and the accents a little dubious but I think it was suppose to be, it made pretty light hearted! 4/5 and 3/5
Booking: Booking was easy, had to do it a reasonable way in advance but then it was busy but not rammed when we were there which was fab! 4.5/5
Venue: I liked the Grand union, actually looked like a poker den downstairs. Severed food and drink till late even on a bank holiday, good size busy but no stuffy. Farringdon was perfect for clues and interesting places. 4.5/5
London Love
@gollumcrackcorn
xoxoxo
