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Entertaining Tips

Emily has to use her wit to figure out who she can trust in order to solve the mystery!  Here is a party game which will test your detective skills:

Cut a small piece of paper for you and each of your guests. Mark one of the sheets of paper with an "X," fold the papers, and put them in a hat.
Have each guest select one paper.  Each secretly looks at his paper. The one who has the "X" is the assassin.
Players sit in a circle and careful examine the faces of the other players.  When the assassin winks at a player, the player must wait 5 seconds, and say, "I've been hit" and drop out of the game.
If a player thinks they have caught the assassin in the act of winking at another player, he/she says "I suspect". They are the suspecter. All playing then pauses while the suspecter then names who they think is the assassin.
If they are correct, the suspecter wins. If not, then the suspecter is dead and must drop out. 
Play continues until either the assassin is named, or there is only 1 player left! 
If the assassin is successful in eliminating all but the last player, the assassin wins.
It is important to tell your guests that if they are winked at by the assassin, they are no longer allowed to suspect anyone before their “death.”