Mystery game challenges students to get a clue

I remember dressing up in my dad’s trench coat, his detective hat, some sunglasses and looking for my sister’s missing teddy bear — which I had strategically placed underneath my bed.
I’d spend hours pretending I was Sherlock Holmes or Nancy Drew. I could solve any mystery if I just had a good magnifying glass.

Considering my previous experience, I decided the campus game, Riddled, should be no problem. The BYU-Idaho Activities Committee put on Riddled, which is similar to the board game and movie Clue.

I walked into the room thinking there would be very little competition, but I found about 40-50 women and men waiting to try their hand at a little mystery.
We had to go around campus, looking for the suspects who may have killed Peter Little. I found all of the suspects, except for Steve Urnsaton who seemed to be conveniently missing when I tried looking for him.

There was, however, a note on the mirrors of Tomassito’s stating that Urnsaton took an unexpected lunch break the afternoon that Little was found dead.

I also found out that Urnsaton was currently dating Little’s ex-girlfriend, Molly Spenzet. She did not seem to care much for him, just that he spent a great deal of money on her.

When I showed up at the prearranged final destination, I was quite sure I knew who had killed Little. I wasn’t sure what he killed him with, so I guessed that Urnsaton had killed Little because he was jealous that Spenzet still had feelings for Little. I also knew Urnsaton hated waking up to Little’s alarm tone of “Sexy Back.” So Urnsaton killed Little with the alarm clock.

Much to my disappointment, I did not win. In fact, surprisingly enough, I was way off. It was the janitor, Mr. Kleenup, in the Taylor Quad, with a brick. Who would have thought of the janitor?
But in Kleenup’s own words, he was a little short on cash, so he “just decided to have a nice conversation with Little and a brick.”

In the end, I was quite disappointed with my detective skills. The Riddled game definitely threw me for a loop. I thoroughly enjoyed testing out my investigation skills and trying to solve a real murder mystery — or as real as you could get at BYU-I.

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