Hunt A Killer Murder at the Motel Game: Problem Solving, Reading, Mystery Board Game

This was awful. My friend and I worked on this one night and after reading ONE PAGE said “we gotta do this another day”. When we came back to it, we sat down with a paper and pen and spent 3 hours trying to just unlock the darn box only to be met with stupid clues. Why include the turtle??? The photo??? A bunch of the “evidence” doesn’t even contribute to the answer. The answer it self is so ridiculous and you have to make ridiculous assumptions to even get to the answer. The hints were not helpful as they only attributed to the lock box, which didn’t help with the answer much. I won’t ever buy another one of these again, I’ll stick to Unsolved Case Files.

LOVED it, just when you thought you had it, wrong! What a plot twist and fun detective game! The story was fun and definitely takes up some time but super worth it for the fun. We will definitely be buying more Hunt A Killer games :))

Disregard the one stars reviews. Those seem to come from people who did not dive into the clues / puzzle enough. If you enjoy murder mysteries, escape rooms, or criminal minds you will love this. My husband and I spent about 1.5 doing this for a date night.

👎 Don't waste your time. We play HAK games and this one was a major stretch. This one is poorly thought out and the motive is a real let down.

you should be able to give this zero stars. seriously, zero stars do not recommended. the clues all went into one or maybe 2 directions but then the answer was ridiculous and had nothing to do with the clues.

Great game! most of these reviews are from slow ppl. 2020 has screwed ppl's brains up BAD

The gameplay was bad. There was really only one puzzle.

Good game! We guessed wrong though, because they made it seem so easy but nope. Husband and I really enjoyed it

My boyfriend and I did this in about an hour. We thought all the clues made sense and the evidence tied to the killer. Reading the other reviews, sounds like if you don’t have good instincts or the ability to put 2 and 2 together, maybe try one of these with a lower difficulty.

This is the worst game I’ve played. The clues seemed pretty empty, the random plot twist (shocker it was the husband like this company always makes it out to be the husband did it somehow), TONS of missing pieces, and tons of empty clues like the voicemails never lead to anything it’d be nice if they did. After finishing I feel like there’s way more questions now definitely a waste of $30 do not recommend buy from a different brand. I’ve played a few of these from this brand and from the ones I’ve played it’s always the husband gets mad and does it because of cheating

We loved this murder mystery game! The clues included were legit...each one a clue or hint toward solving the murder The quality of the "clues" is top notch. Challenging to solve but we were able to!!

High quality evidence. However, the solution to this makes many leaps that are questionable. It could have been better thought out.

It was very high quality. The story is enthralling and leads you to multiple possibilities and twists. Ignore the haters they are just dumb and couldn't work it out. The clues were very clever, if you are a fan of escape rooms this is for you. We did the game with 2 players and it took around an hour. The evidence and letters and notes are all very high quality.

Made my night so much worse, it was such a bad game. Thought it would be a fun game to play with friends, but the answer actually makes no sense at all like what. The answer was thrown in and there was no common sense behind it. Genuinely I thought this was the worst game I have ever played and is dissuading me from ever playing another game from this company ever again. If you want to get a murder mystery game do not get this one. Why would you make a game and have the answer suck? And I mean this not in a subjective way, but an objective way. Like factually, the answer sucks. This game just made me so disappointed in the company, I really don't know how to feel about it anymore. It is that deep, no one should spend the amount of money they paid to buy this game in order for the answer to suck, and then they'll never be able to play the game again because they know the answer. Wish I read the reviews first and got a refund.

It was one of the worst murder cases I have ever done the handwriting was barely readable the directions were very unclear and if you get worked up easily this is not for you. This game will take more than 60 minutes. The lock is so cheap and doesn’t open I ended up breaking the box to see that was inside of it. This was just not worth 30 hard working bucks. DONT BUY! YULL REGRET IT!!! The unsolved case files are so much better than this and way more self explanatory. It also looked so unrealistic and I don’t like that at all.

I almost want to write a spoiler so that I could save you from wasting hours on this product. Although the “mystery” itself wasn’t too hard to solve, the evidence left a lot of holes that made for a long and frustrating experience that ended in disappointment. I will refrain from giving too much away but the damning pieces of evidence in the case are locked in a container that the killer shouldn’t know the combination to and the game never gives any evidence or explanation as to how the killer opened it. This led us on a wild goose chase because there was no possible way the killer could’ve opened the container so we were stuck. Even the solution at the end gave no explanation. Major headache for little-to-no reward.

We love escape rooms, so this was very fun to have at home! You will need a big table/space to work this out, and about 45 min-1 hour. Also, once you play it once, that’s it; So we’re passing it off to our friends to play now.

Wow. My best friend and I LOVE playing these games. We live 17 hours away from each other now and enjoy spending a free night here and there playing one over FaceTime. I buy it, send her all the evidence and we create a murder board that we can update real time. We have played the Hunt a Killer games in the past and really enjoyed them! So we chose this one. *No spoilers* Well….What a bust and waste of $16 (that I luckily bought on sale, actual price is $30). We go through all the evidence and narrow it down between three. Usually there are more puzzles to complete, which this one didn’t. We had to have hints for the lock box even because nothing that we tried (that would make sense), worked. Finally giving up and opening the solution after 2-3 hours, we didn’t know how on earth they came to that person being the killer. The evidence just wasn’t there. After reading the reason why, along with the epilogue, it still didn’t make sense. Save yourself the time and get a different Hunt a Killer game. Dive bar, boardwalk, or the Nancy Drew ones were all sooooo much better, and more creative, than this. Even other brands have had better games. This one wasn’t thought through. I believe this was one of their first to come out that wasn’t a part of the subscription, so I’m assuming they just tried to pick evidence from all the pieces and condense it into one, which didn’t work out.

Answer made no sense and ruined the fun because it just felt pointless. Huge waste of $

This was such a fun game. I’ll definitely do more of these! It took my friend and I a few hours to figure out, so it’s a good value