Using online voting for your murder mystery party awards

One simple way to elevate your murder mystery party is to include fun awards and let your guests vote on them at the end of the night.

One of our experienced customers, Rich Louie, shared a tip for making these awards easier: use online voting to make tallying the votes quick and painless.

Setting up your form

Here’s how it works.

Create an online form using an online form creator, such as Google Forms or Microsoft Forms.

As part of that form, create questions suited to the kind of awards you want to present. For example:

  • Best Costume
  • Best Acting
  • Best Detectives (for those who correctly identify the culprit)
  • Best Accent
  • Most Suspicious (the person who received the most votes but wasn’t the murderer)

An example form

Here’s an example form we have set up for A Will to Murder. (Click on the link and see how it works.)

Create a QR code

To make it easy for your guests to find the form, create a QR code for your form.

You can create QR codes using a free tool like QRcode Monkey, or some web browsers let you create a QR code by right-clicking on a webpage.

QR code for award form

The QR code above goes to the form we created. (We created this using right-click in Chrome.)

Share the form with your guests

Then, during your party, you can share the form with your guests. (Print the QR code so your guests can scan it with their phones.)

Tally the votes

Then you can quickly review the votes and award your prizes!

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Written by Steve Hatherley

Category: Party Tips
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28 January 2026

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