Antwerp Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

Antwerp starts you on the Grote Markt, between the guild houses and the town hall, and sends you off towards the Scheldt. The route passes the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, reaches Het Steen on the riverbank and turns back inland through the printing quarter around the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It is a detective game played on foot, at whatever speed you set. The centre of Antwerp is flat and walkable, with wide squares and a stretch of quayside where a team can stop and think. Families with children, groups of friends, couples and colleagues all get on with it, and there is nothing to stop a single player. A team is up to four people sharing one phone; more than four and you split into separate teams. No guide is involved and there is no departure time to catch. How to playPreparation in Antwerp amounts to a download and a look at your email. Book the City Game Check the email with your play link Open the link on your phone Start playing whenever you like The case is the murder of Balthasar. Clues arrive as codes to break, photographs to take and statements from digital characters that do not agree with one another. The trail includes The Rubens House and, further north, the Museum aan de Stroom, where a small detail in one testimony fails to hold up. When more than one team is playing, the whole thing turns into a race, which is what makes it work for teambuilding as much as for an afternoon out. Stop for a drink, come back to it later, and wrap up the case in Antwerp whenever you are ready.