Name that Game competition!

Like many other small businesses we're trying our luck with the Enterprise Nation's 101fund.

It's a simple enough idea - you come up with an idea that needs funding - list it and if you get 500 people to vote for you - then you get £500 funding.

Voting is free - anyone with an email address can register to vote and it takes all of 1 minute max!

Also - you won't get spammed. Simply ignore the first email Enterprise nation send you and you never get added to the mailing list.

So... in order to make something of this - we've decided to run a small competition for you wannabe detectives...

NAME THAT GAME!

With our enterprise bid - as of today we've posted a picture of a toe - tag which features on one of our games. So...

To enter - place your vote and leave a comment with the name of the game. All those with correct entries will be entered in to a prize draw to win one of our new Cluedo Mugs - if you win - you get to pick which one you want!

As the Meercats say on telly - "Simples".

See the photo and place your bid here:

http://www.enterprisenation.com/funding-applications/red-herring-games/

New products!

We were at the NEC in Birmingham for the wholesale spring fair busy sourcing new murder mystery themed gifts - when we stumbled on a stand dedicated to cluedo themed products! As you can imagine - our eyes lit up! As of this week - we are now proud to be stocking aprons, tea-towels, coasters, placemats and expresso sets - all with the cluedo theme. To see the full range click here:

Cluedo themed gifts

We've just won Small Business Sunday!

We can't believe it here at the office! How stunning is this! Many thanks to @theopaphitis for picking us this week!

Sherlock Herring

For those who don't always follow what we're up to on twitter and facebook - this week has seen the spawning of Sherlock Herring - Red Herring Game's mascot. He really is the logo made live and he is getting up to all sorts of antics daily.

This week we've been filming for our next You-Tube release and as well as getting all involved in that (as he has a cameo appearance in one scene in order to run a "Spot the fish" competetion) he's also been buying tickets for the theatre, attending book group, buying lunch and generally making his presence known.

You can find him on facebook at facebook.com/SherlockHerring
On twitter at @RHGSherlock
and you'll eventually catch him on You Tube too!

This is a sample of his weeks activities:

First up - getting his eyebrows threaded in advance of his first You Tube premiere. The girl assured him the redness would die down. Somehow we didn't think so.



Next up he decided to buy the tickets for Caxton theatre - we're all off to see "The Last Five Years" in February. Sherlock has been invited by one of the cast, and we've been told he'll get a special wave.



Then it was preparations for the film shoot.



After that - he bought us all lunch in Greggs and managed to cause quite a stir - no one believed that a fish was in the store at first!



Then he popped along to book group on Thursday night. And when we posted this on twitter on friday - #bookfish began to trend... not sure if that had anything to do with Sherlock's photo, but the coincidence is fishy.



I wonder what he'll get up to next week?

Win a bag full of murder mystery goodies!

2012 sees us setting up a series of competitions. This month it's the turn of the:

" New Year Party Photo" competition.

I'm sure you've all got some cracking photos from your New Year Murder Mystery Celebrations and so this is a "share to win" competition.

The competition rules are simple - post your best murder mystery photo on our facebook page and ask your friends to "like it". We'll take the "likes" as votes and whoever has the most likes by the end of the month will win a prize pack of murder mystery goodies delivered free of charge directly to their door!

Check out our facebook page opposite and post your photo today!

The first person to post a photo will get a chocolate bar through their door!

Our latest You Tube Release! - Multi-room games explained

RED HERRING GAMES MOVIE PREMIERE!

We're very excited about our first ever you tube release and have been tweeting, facebooking and generally making a nuisance of ourselves in the social media sphere as we're so thrilled with the first one!

There are more videos to follow covering the basics like how to download games, how to put printed packs together and how to run murder mystery parties - but for the first one we thought we'd showcase the events side of our business.

The video is from our 007 murder mystery - the Quantum of Malice - for those of you who already follow us on Facebook you'll have seen the stills. But the video tells the complete picture!

Take a look: