The village of Much Fibbing Est. whenever someone first lied
MuchFibbingCase No. 001
A most peculiar detective game

MuchFibbingVillage Mysteries

Everyone's lying.
Pass the scones.

A cosy British whodunnit where you question the villagers in your own words, and they answer out loud. Mind your manners. Mind your tea.

Out now on iPhone & iPad

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£3.99 in the UK · All seven cases · No ads · Works offline

Ask him anything
Extra! Extra! · Case 1: Marrowgate
The Much FibbingGazette
Saturday 14th SeptemberEst. 1874Price 20p or a jar of chutney

Village Show in shock

MARROW
MOST FOUL

Champion vegetable ‘Gerald’ found nobbled on eve of Village Show. Women's Institute furious. Police ‘at a loss’, and also at lunch.

Villagers woke this morning to scenes of horror in the show tent, where Gerald, the 84lb marrow set to win Mrs Dorothy Pemberton a record twelfth championship, was discovered wilting beneath a scattering of slug pellets.

With the judging at two o'clock, a detective has been summoned from the city. Residents are asked to cooperate fully, to stop hiding things, and to bring a plate.

“Everyone in this village is lying about something.” The landlord of the Dog & Duck

GERALD, pictured in happier times.
Whodunnit?
Persons of interest

Everyone has something to hide.

Three suspects. One vegetable. A remarkable number of opinions.

Vicar of St Swithin's

Reverend Hugh Blessing

A man of the cloth. And, rather curiously, the allotment.

The tellQuotes scripture when cornered
Asleep by ten, Inspector. Proverbs has a great deal to say about sloth, but nothing against an early night.
WI chair · 11-time champion

Mrs Dorothy Pemberton

Chair of the Women's Institute. Gerald's devoted grower.

The tellThat teacup keeps rattling
Gerald was family. Well, Gerald was a vegetable. But he was family-sized.
Retired colonel

Colonel Rupert Fawcett-Smythe

Retired, distinguished, and still discussing the hedge dispute of 1987.

The tellTwitching moustache
The war? No, no. The hedge. Entirely different campaign.
Your investigation, Inspector

How to catch a fibber

Four steps. Twenty sips. Try not to accuse the parrot.

  1. Step 1

    Search the village

    Poke around the show tent, vicarage and wherever gossip gathers.

  2. Step 2

    Question suspects

    Ask what you like, in your own words. They'll answer in character.

  3. Step 3

    Watch for tells

    Notice the little giveaways. Then decide what they really mean.

  4. Step 4

    Make your accusation

    Name the culprit, motive and clue before the tea goes cold.

A detective's handbook

The village is yours to untangle.

Clue 01

Ask anything

Type your own questions. Suspects reply out loud in their own voices.

Clue 02

Spot the tells

Sweat, teacups, twitching moustaches. A tell is a clue, though hardly a confession.

Clue 03

Gossip spreads

Repeat what someone said. Invent a little bluff. Watch word travel round the village.

Clue 04

Manners matter

Charm them and they overshare. Be rude and the shutters come down.

Clue 05

Crack the puzzles

Brain-teasers guard the best clues. Solve them for custard creams, or skip for a sip of tea.

Clue 06

Seven cases, seven mysteries

Piers, pantos, steam rallies, canals and Morris bells. Every case a new corner of Britain, with new suspects to fib at you.

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Much Fibbing is out now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. £3.99 in the UK buys the whole casebook. There's no free version and no trial: you pay once and get everything. Android is coming soon to Google Play.

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  • All seven cases, from Marrowgate to Hanky Panky
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Private by design.

On supported devices, suspects answer using AI running on your phone. Other devices use hand-written replies. Reading replies aloud uses your device's built-in voices. Nothing you type leaves it. No account, no tracking, and the mystery works in airplane mode.

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A little something to brag about

Case closed. Kettle on.

Name the culprit, motive and key clue, then dare your friends to do better. The result card never gives the game away, so nobody's case is spoiled.

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