In 2018 we made the decision to change the way we offered scripts for sale.  This was a tough decision driven by the misuse of our products within the commercial sector.

As we are one of very few companies to supply both retail and commercial products as well as event management services we have had to take steps to protect our intellectual property from misuse.

As a result we’ve had to change the way we sell licenses to use our scripts – and as a result – we’re now acting as “gate keepers”.

If you are a not-for-profit event host – PLEASE PLEASE do contact us as we will be only too happy to supply you with a unique discount code so you can access scripts at the old prices ( 1/3rd of the listed price)!

You are eligible for a discount code if you are purchasing large group scripts for your own use and/or you are not making a profit from the entertainment.

These sorts of events are covered by our domestic license:

• You are hosting the event yourself for yourself and your friends e.g. a birthday party
• You are hosting the event UNPAID for other friends/family.
• You purchase the game to use with your OWN company staff.  (Members only events are a grey area… speak to us as it depends on if this is a perk with paid membership)
• You purchase the game for fundraising use at your OWN event. (Reselling your services out to a restaurant to raise funds for a theatre group is NOT permitted – as in effect they are paying you to “cheat the system”.)
• You purchase the game as a gift for someone who fits into one of the categories above.

If you fit into any of the above categories then you are eligable for a discount.

SINGLE USE IN SINGLE VENUE is permitted on the domestic license. If you intend to use the same game more than once, you should purchase the game again in order to give the author their royalty payment.  Reselling games is NOT permitted under any circumstances.

You should be purchasing our scripts on the commercial license (listed prices) if you are reselling your event services to other customers/clients; or running your event “for profit”.

This includes groups who are “not for profit” but are selling their services to another organisation who will will then be selling the event at a profit to them. e.g. an amateur theatre who asks for a donation only when running a murder mystery event for a hotel. The hotel is selling a murder mystery to their customers. Therefore, the theatre group should be purchasing the event on the Commercial License and bill the hotel for this accordingly.

These sorts of uses are covered by the commercial license:

• You are selling your services to run a murder mystery for a hotel/restaurant/company/other paying customer e.g. private party.
• You are a guest house, hotel or other entertainment venue e.g. public house, and are charging ticket prices to customers to attend the murder mystery event.
• You are a team building company and a murder mystery is forming part of the services you are providing to the client ( as you will have charged them indirectly for the experience).
• You are a members only organisation for which the members pay an annual subscription and in return get access to events you host.  (This is a grey area as some member only organisations are not-for-profit… always best to speak to us!)
• You are a not for profit agency who is contracted in by a hotel / restaurant /company to host an event they are running for profit.

SINGLE USE IN SINGLE VENUES is permitted on the current script prices. If you intend to use the same event more than once, you should contact us to obtain our rates for a multi-use licenses in a single venue – this will be calculated depending on guest numbers expected and the number of repeats envisaged.  Alternatively you can simply buy the script multiple times.

MULTIPLE USE IN MULTIPLE VENUES is NOT permitted on our standard prices. If you intend to resell your services on a regular basis in different venues then we ask that you speak to us about becoming a Red Herring Games Franchise holder, which permits you to run scripts in multiple venues and also gives you access to other formats and different services at more competitive rates then our commercial licenses.