Chania Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The first marker in Chania stands at the Küçük Hasan Mosque, right on the Venetian harbour. From there the case pulls you along the quay towards the Venetian Lighthouse and back inland to the Firkas Fortress and Talos Square. It is a self-guided murder mystery game played at walking pace through the old town. The harbour front and the lanes behind it are flat and compact, though the cobbles in Chania are uneven enough that proper shoes help. Families with children, groups of friends, couples and colleagues all get on with it, and a single player can run the whole case alone. A team is a maximum of four people around one phone; larger groups buy extra tickets and go out as several teams. There is no guide and no departure time to be on time for. How to playFour steps take you from booking to standing on the quay with the first clue. Book the City Game Check the instructions email Download the Loquiz app Start playing whenever you like You are investigating the murder of Balthasar. You decode messages, complete photo tasks and question digital characters whose accounts contradict one another. The stalls of the Municipal Market of Chania and the rooms of the Maritime Museum of Crete both feed the investigation, and the trail passes Porta Sabbionara and the Church of Saint Nicholas before the picture is complete. When several teams work the same case at once it becomes a contest, which is why groups of colleagues use it for teambuilding. Pause for a swim or a long lunch, take up the trail again afterwards, and close the case somewhere in old Chania.