Printed murder-mystery case files & party games

Some files were never meant to be closed.

Cold Ink builds murder mysteries you hold in your hands. Real evidence laid across your table for a night: coroner's reports, witness statements, recovered photographs, sealed packets. No host, no app, no rulebook. You read it, you argue it, you solve it.

Cold Ink Casefiles No. 001 Black Sand
The collection

Three ways to spend an evening with a killer.

Two lines, one obsession with getting the details right. Casefiles are printed dossiers you investigate solo or with a few people. Party Files turn your dinner table into the scene of the crime. Pick one.

What makes a Cold Ink case different

The evidence looks real because we make it real.

No game-y tells

You solve it by noticing.

No arrows, no highlighted clues, no "look here" stamps. Every document looks exactly like the real thing. The smoking gun is a blank signature line or a timestamp that does not add up, and you have to catch it.

A fair, solvable case

One killer. One answer.

Three suspects look guilty. Only one is. Every case is built so the truth is provable from the file in front of you, never a lucky guess. Check yourself when you are ready, or open the sealed solution.

Made by hand in Canada

Stamped, numbered, real.

Designed, printed, and assembled in Canada. Bilingual official forms, photo-lab prints, wax-look seals, signatures. A case file you would believe walked out of an evidence room.

How a casefile plays

You don't play it. You investigate it.

Open the folder. Spread the evidence across the table. Read the coroner's preliminary, the witness statements, the gate log. Argue with whoever you brought along. Break the sealed packets in order. Each one ends with the next objective.

Was it murder? How was it done? Who did it? Three answers, drawn straight from the paper in your hands.

Two lines, one standard
  • Casefiles: printed dossier kits
  • 1–4 players · ~2.5 hrs · solve at your pace
  • Party Files: hosted dinner games
  • 6–9 players · ~2.5 hrs · the host plays too
  • Both: age 16+ · fair-play · no app required
The Cliff free case file cover
Free mini-mystery

Solve a real case file tonight.

The Cliff: an eleven-document mini-case in the same format as the full kits. Four suspects, one liar, 30 to 60 minutes. Print it, bring it to the dinner table, see who solves it first.

One free case file, then the occasional note when a new one drops. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.