The easiest way to host a murder mystery at your zoo.

Host a murder mystery at your zoo!

Mystery Zoo is a series of murder mysteries that can be licensed and hosted at zoos. Equipped with their phones and a venue map, aspiring sleuths will locate signs that have been placed around zoo — scanning them to receive clues, view evidence, and hear from suspects. Each game is themed with an creature-friendly plot where human characters are the suspects and victim.

At the end, players submit their guess about “zoo dunnit” and find out if they were right.

Host it as an evening event, a daytime ticket add-on, or a staff event!

Printed game assets and smartphones make this series self-guided and easy to set up.

Complex plots. Simple licensing.

Jetpack licenses games to accredited zoos and aquariums as revenue-generating public events, ticket add-ons, and zoo staff events. Editions are available to license individually, or as an ongoing series.

There are currently 7 editions available to license:

  • A famous giraffe expert is murdered during an evening reception at the zoo, with suspicion falling on his widow, his assistant, his rival, event staff, and an over-enthusiastic giraffe fanatic.

  • During an special event with extra vendors and entertainers working on site, the zoo's controversial new mascot — a person in a Bigfoot costume — is murdered.

  • At the zoo's annual art auction fundraiser, where wealthy donors were bidding on wildlife paintings, one of the bidders is murdered.

  • When the zoo's gift shop managers are forced to compete for the highest monthly sales, their boss is murdered and the sales figures go missing.

  • The night-time DJ at the zoo's on-site radio station is murdered — and all of the other night shift employees are suspects.

  • At a content creator retreat where the zoo’s new media ambassador will be chosen, a popular science influencer was murdered and everyone else is a suspect.

  • A priceless dinosaur exhibit has been raided, six fossils were stolen, and a security guard has been murdered. 

FAQ

  • Game preparation for Mystery Zoo is as simple as:

    1. In-office printing of game sheets.

    2. Printing/posting 30 pieces of signage.

    3. Adding 30 map markers to your zoo map.

  • When players arrive, you’ll give them a game sheet, your zoo map, and a pencil. The rest of the game is self-guided, with players locating each of the posted signs, viewing evidence and suspect videos, and ultimately submitting their guess of which suspect is guilty.

  • For evening game events, editions of Mystery Zoo be licensed per calendar date, for a one-time fee.

    For daytime use as a ticket add-on, monthly licenses are available.

  • Yes! Much like our long-running puzzle series Locked Zoo, our Mystery Zoo murder mysteries are designed to be turn-key revenue generators. They are easy to setup, easy to host, and you can build a lucrative ticketed evening event around them.

  • No. All of our games are available as simple time-based licenses — with host zoos setting their own ticket prices and keeping 100% of the ticket proceeds.

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