6 Holiday Mysteries for Escape Room Fans

In December, the ratio of work days to days off is right where we like it at Krakit Escape Game: about half and half. Even after trying out one, two, maybe three escape games with your friends and family this holiday season, you’ll probably still have some time to fill with some further brain-tickling mystery goodness.

To help you out, we’ve put together some of our favourite Christmas and wintry-themed mysteries: three TV specials and three films to get you through to the New Year.

Mysterious TV Christmas Specials

1. Sherlock, “The Abominable Bride”

What’s better than Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman playing Sherlock and Watson? Cumberbatch and Freeman playing the dynamic duo in Victorian England, of course. This hour-and-a-half Christmas special was released last January, so it’s about time for a rewatch.

2. Murdoch Mysteries, “A Very Murdoch Christmas”

The Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries, set in the Toronto of the 1890s, got into the Christmas special spirit with this two-hour episode from 2015. Along with a Christmas pageant (classic), “A Very Murdoch Christmas” also involves the Christmas demon Krampus (amazing!).

You can watch the whole thing online here.

3. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, “Murder Under the Mistletoe”

And finally, to turn your Christmas upside-down (literally) comes the Melbourne-set Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. This Christmas spesh is also a period piece—set in the 1920s—with Miss Fisher and company trapped in a house after a heavy snowfall where a murder most foul has just taken place. Since Winter in Australia is during our summer, this special is set during July.

Mysterious Christmas Films

1.  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, and a murder mystery set in Los Angeles during Christmastime. Win, win, win, win, win.

2.  Die Hard

Oh, Die Hard is already your favourite Christmas movie? Well, we should’ve seen that coming—but we couldn’t not include it on our list. John McClane has to escape an office tower that’s been taken over by terrorists. And oh boy, will he.

3. The Thin Man

A 1934 comedy-mystery to help make your holiday merry and bright, in which Nick and Nora Charles’s New York Christmas holiday is about to have a lot more murder than they ever expected. Plus, it’s a chance for us to see what 1930s Christmas cocktail parties looked like (hint: pretty classy).



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