With Hometown Whodunit, murder is just good business! For players to solve the mystery, they must visit each clue stop. Those clue stops are only in participating businesses. Meaning that when hundreds of players come out to join a Hometown Whodunit game, you are guaranteed hundreds of feet coming into and out of your store over the weekend!
Benefits of Sponsoring Hometown Whodunit
- Clue Stops: Hundreds of participants worth of foot traffic as a clue stop.
- Mystery Boxes: Your business can sell “Mystery Boxes” of inventory to an audience already primed for mystery and intrigue. Stores have sold thousands of dollars of inventory in a single day with mystery boxes.
- Product Placement: Game clues can include product placements for your businesses’ products.
- Advertising in Production Packet: The production packet each player receives can have advertisements for your business. This is a packet that each player will spend hours poring over, and your name can be right there with them.
- Sponsorship Credit: Your sponsorship is acknowledged in the production packet, and seen by every player.
- Out-of-Town Guests: Hotel owners can host out-of-town players for this two-day event.
- Charity Raffle: Show your commitment to the community by sponsoring the charity raffle!
Don’t have a storefront, but still want to participate?
We can include a clue featuring your business, which every player will need to read multiple times to solve the mystery!
Clues are located in local businesses.
Host the crime scene in your business.
Local bars create specialty drinks during the weekend of the event.
Characters in your business draw players in while they’re playing the game. While they’re there, they can eat, drink, or browse your merchandise and services.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Bronze Sponsor
$100
✓ Your business is a Clue Stop
✓ Social Media and Website Mentions
✓ Included in Punch-Card Raffle Program*
✓ Credit for Bronze Sponsorship in Production packet
* Players will receive a punch card to turn in for raffle tickets. They get their ticket punched for each business they purchase something from.
Five punches = one additional free raffle ticket.
Silver Sponsor
Tier Two – $200
✓ Everything in Bronze Sponsorship
AND
✓ Host a main suspect in your store.
✓ Guarantee that all players will return to your store to interview the witness
✓ Credit for Silver Sponsorship in Production packet
OR
✓ Your business is the crime scene.
✓ Guarantee that all players will spend a lot of time in your store analyzing the scene of the murder.
✓ Credit for Silver Sponsorship in Production packet
Gold Sponsor 1
Tier Two- $500
✓ Everything in Bronze Sponsorship
AND
✓ Your business owner is the victim of the crime.
✓ Lots of name exposure.
✓ Your name and your business will be at the front of everyone’s mind throughout the Game.
✓ Your character was on a noble mission, bringing recognition and goodwill.
✓ This option is best suited for lawyers, real estate agents, or other personality-first, mass-market professions.
✓ Credit for Gold Sponsorship in Production packet
Gold Sponsor 2: You Play!
Tier Three- $500
✓ Play as a character in the Game!
✓ You can play as yourself.
✓ Lots of name exposure.
✓ Fun interaction with future clients.
✓ Credit for Gold Sponsorship in Production packet
Optional Add On Options!
Recognition in Production Packet
(+$25) Product placement in the clues.
(+$25) Basic Advertisements in the packet.
(+$50) Full Page Advertisement in Packet
(+$50) Ad on Puzzle Page
(+$25) Entering in the “Drinks” competition.
Community-Builder
– Donate to Charity Raffle
– Volunteer your business for the reveal or check in
– Offer meals for volunteers
✓ Acknowledgement as “Community-Builder” in production packet.
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