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A painted night scene: Kestrel Fell Observatory, alone on a moorland hill, under a sky full of stars.

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The fun is in the finding.

Funbase makes mysteries you can actually solve: fair clues, one answer you can prove, and worlds worth lingering in.

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Kestrel Fell Observatory, 1934 · from The Stolen Comet, a Five Suspects Big Case

Our first game

Five suspects. One culprit. Every clue on screen.

Each case is a two-minute illustrated whodunit. Pause, read every clue, then comment the number of the suspect you accuse. The answer posts the next day at noon ET, with credit for the sharpest reasoning.

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Night 1 · Mon 5 Oct, 7 pm ET

The Champion in the Feed Shed

The Wenlow and District Agricultural Show, in a field behind the church. An August afternoon, 1952.

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The Champion in the Feed Shed · the five suspects

One of them did it.

  1. Suspect 1, Dilys Pryce: a painted full-length portrait.
    1Dilys Pryce
  2. Suspect 2, Stefan Nowak: a painted full-length portrait.
    2Stefan Nowak
  3. Suspect 3, Bridie Gallagher: a painted full-length portrait.
    3Bridie Gallagher
  4. Suspect 4, Dr. Kwame Boateng: a painted full-length portrait.
    4Dr. Kwame Boateng
  5. Suspect 5, Harold Tuttle: a painted full-length portrait.
    5Harold Tuttle

How we make games

Fair clues. Real answers. Worlds worth getting lost in.

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    Fair by design

    Every mystery has exactly one answer you can prove from what you're shown. Before a case goes out, AI solvers that see only what you see, and never the answer, try to break it. If one can argue for a second suspect, the case goes back to be rewritten.

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    Nothing points at the culprit

    All five suspects are drawn from one template: the same pose, the same light, the same frame and the same time on screen. You solve it from the evidence, not from who looks guilty.

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    Answers are always free

    Free cases come with free answers, every time. We'll never charge you to find out whether you were right.

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    Made for good company

    Solve one alone on the bus, argue it out over dinner, or print the case file for game night.

Every case, a new world

From a lighthouse off the coast to a sleeper train at midnight.

Every case is illustrated in one house style, the look of gouache and ink on paper: mid-century, muted, lamplit.

  • Painted setting: The Wenlow and District Agricultural Show, in a field behind the church.
    An August afternoon, 1952The Champion in the Feed Shed
  • Painted setting: Larkspur House, a country house in the Wexcombe valley.
    A June night, 1974The Midsummer Queen
  • Painted setting: The Solm Letter House, a small museum on a canal in Veldhaven.
    A November evening, 1961The Poet's Last Letter
  • Painted setting: The Marine Grand Hotel, Seaholme, on the English coast.
    An April weekend, 1955The Sorted Sixteen
  • Painted setting: The Merrow Belle, the overnight sleeper from Aldbridge to Port Merrow.
    An autumn night, 1958The Stop She Slept Through
  • Painted setting: Skerrick Rock Light, three miles off the coast.
    Relief day, October 1938The Keepers' Tin
  • Painted setting: Tamarack Valley Radio, a small station in Cedar Mills.
    A November evening, 1956The Captain Who Couldn't Swim
  • Painted setting: Wexcombe Free Library.
    An October evening, 1964A Hole in Wexcombe
  • Painted setting: The Edelweiss Lodge, high in the Alps.
    A winter night, 1957The Violet Penny
  • Painted setting: Tarnside, a country house on the shore of Lake Wenmere.
    A summer evening, 1936The Note Under the Door
  • Painted setting: The Kestrel Falls Courier, a small-town weekly on the prairie.
    A February night, 1953Pied Before Press
  • Painted setting: Gullscar House, on the cliffs above Trennick Cove.
    A hot June afternoon, 1936A Pavilion in Ashes
  • Painted setting: The Thornmere Botanic Garden, in a northern town.
    A January night, 1934The Orchid That Never Opened
  • Painted setting: The Corbel Theatre, Pellbridge.
    An autumn night, 1938The Brooch That Missed Its Cue

Five Suspects is our first game. It won't be our last.

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