About The Red Archives
What A Red Archives Case Is.
The Red Archives makes at-home investigation cases. A sealed file arrives at your door holding the documents a real inquiry would leave behind: statements, photographs, registers, letters and recordings. You open them in the order the seals allow, work out what happened, and commit your answer to paper before the truth comes out.
Everything Is Made To Be Handled
We print, age and seal every piece. A police file reads like a police file. A letter written from a jail cell is on the paper a prisoner would have been given, in the hand of the person who wrote it. A ledger carries the arithmetic a clerk would have done, mistakes included. Nothing in the box is a card with a clue printed on it.
No Host, No App
Nobody has to sit the evening out in order to run it. There is no phone to pass around, no timer, and no round order to learn. The seals decide what you are allowed to open next and the case carries the rest. Two to eight people, about ninety minutes, at your own table.
The Research Comes First
A case is a timeline long before it is a box. Dates, money, distances and motive have to hold together under a table of people who are actively trying to pull them apart, because that is the whole evening. A detail that cannot survive that does not ship.
Sealed Until You Earn It
Cases are made in India and ship across the country. Every one arrives sealed. Some of the evidence sits behind a QR seal that opens only once you can answer for it, and the folder holding the truth is the last thing you are allowed to break into.
Four Cases Are Open.
Pick Your First.
Each one is a different kind of evening, and more are sealed in the vault.
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