Awkward Guests: The Walton Case FAQ
84 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game Contents and Setup
Turn Order and Overview
Offer and Exchange Phases
- Must a non-active player offer a matching card when they can?
- Can a non-active player offer cards about things the active player did not ask about?
- In what order are offers declared, and can later players see earlier offers?
- Can the active player refuse every offer, and can an offer be changed once declared?
- Can the active player trade with several non-active players in the same inquiry?
- Can the active player draw three free cards if they decline every offer?
- If an offer is more than you can pay, or you would rather not take it, can you decline and draw from the deck?
- Can you pass on or reuse cards you just received during the same exchange phase?
- Can players hold cards back and never offer or reveal them?
- Can a player give back to someone the cards that player earlier gave them?
- Is there a maximum total a non-active player can offer, and are offer tokens limited?
- When is the value of an offer declared: card by card, or once all the cards are down?
Solutions
- Can the murderer have all three motive boxes checked for two different motives?
- What happens if more than one player solves correctly in the same solution round?
- If two players both want to attempt the solution in the same round, who goes first?
- What happens if you guess the wrong solution without the app?
- What happens after a wrong guess when you check the solution in the app?
- Can players attempt the solution after each inquiry, or only at the end of the round?
Two-Player Game Variant
Solo Mode Game
Reading the Cards and the Tracking Sheet
- When should you write notes on the tracking sheet?
- How should an 'X says they were with Y' card be marked on the tracking sheet?
- Can you read your own starting cards and write clues on the tracking sheet?
- What do the room and character references in a card's corner do when the card text does not mention them?
- Why does a clue card name a room that the clue is not about?
Alibi Cards
- How do the Berwick Sisters count in a room headcount, and are they one suspect or two people?
- Is the murderer counted in the housekeeper's headcount of a room at the time of the murder?
- Does the +3 marking on card 95 (Library) mean three or more people, or more than three?
- What does 'at the time of the murder' mean on an alibi card?
- Where does the murderer start the route to the Study, and must it be the room they claim to have been in?
- Are innocent guests and the accomplice really in the room they name at the time of the murder?
- Can the murderer take the murder weapon from their starting room before heading to the Study?
- If the staff count fewer people in a room at the time of the murder than claim to be there, who is lying?
- Does the murderer always lie in their statements?
- Can an innocent suspect claim two different rooms at the time of the murder?
- If a guest says they were in a room with the murderer at the time of the murder, are they lying?
- If the housekeeper reports one person in the Vestibule and the Berwick Sisters claim to be there, who is the murderer?
Motive Cards
- Does the murderer's true motive always have two testimonies and one piece of evidence, even when there is an accomplice?
- Does a motive with two testimonies and one piece of evidence confirm it as the crime motive?
- Can one suspect have two motives fully supported by testimonies and evidence?
- Does a suspect with all three motive boxes checked count as the murderer?
- If the police dismiss a motive, does that mean whoever named it was lying?
- Does a motive or evidence card that names a room show that the suspect passed through it?
- Can motive claims about one guest be used to show that two guests started in different rooms?
- Does the Poisoned Chalice motive tie the murder to a poison weapon?
- What does the payback motive mean, and where are the motive types listed?
Opportunity Cards
- If the murderer passed through a room named on a card, must the murder weapon come from that room?
- Can the murderer pick up the murder weapon from a room that already has other guests in it?
- On the second Opportunity card, does 'one of them' refer to a room or a person?
- If the housekeeper says a room had no guests at the time of the murder, could the murderer still have passed through it?
Method Cards
- If neither suspect on a might-have-passed card went through the named room, can you rule out both suspects and the weapon in that room?
- If the named suspects on a might-have-passed card are innocent, can the murder weapon still be in that room?
- Can two might-have-passed cards for the same room, naming different pairs of suspects, rule out that room's weapons?
Conspiracy Cards
- Does an 'either X or Y might have passed through room Z' card mean one of them definitely went through that room?
- Does a Conspiring card identify the accomplice for certain?
- Can the murderer have a conspiring card?
- Do the murderer and the accomplice ever expose each other's motives?
- Do the accomplice and the murderer start in the same room, and does the accomplice stay there?
- How can you tell the accomplice from the murderer when both claim to have been together?
- Can an innocent guest start in the same room the murderer names?
- If one card says the Berwick Sisters or Greg Gaffney might have passed through the Trophy Room, and two other cards say neither passed, are they innocent?
Advice
Cases
Reference: Walton Mansion Floor Plan and Guest Key
- Can the murderer backtrack, visit the same room twice, or return to the starting room?
- Can the murderer leave a room by the same doorway they entered, or walk straight back out the way they came?
- Do you need to track the murderer's route from the Study back to a starting room?
- Can the murderer enter the Study, fetch a weapon from another room, and return to the Study?
- Is there a direct route from the Library to the Kitchen, or must you pass through the Shed or Living Room?
- In the rulebook's route example, can a suspect go from the Kitchen to the Bedroom and then straight into the Study?