Ferrara Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The game starts at Piazza Trento e Trieste. In roughly two hours on foot you take in the Corso Martiri della Libertà, the marble front of the Cattedrale di San Giorgio, Palazzo Roverella and the church of San Domenico. It is a self-guided walking tour built around a murder investigation. The centre of Ferrara is flat and built for walking and cycling, which suits families with children as much as a group of colleagues or two people on a weekend away. A team is at most four people sharing one phone, and a larger group simply forms more teams. Nobody guides you and no departure time is set for you. How to playGetting under way in Ferrara is a matter of four steps. Book the City Game Check the email with your play link Open the link on your phone Start playing whenever you like The murder of Balthasar is the case. Clues arrive as codes to break, photographs to take and interviews with digital characters whose accounts of the evening do not agree. Between the Castello Estense and Palazzo Roverella, every answer you work out cuts the list of suspects down. More than one team on the route turns it into a competition, which is why groups use it for teambuilding as well as a day out. Break for coffee on the Corso Martiri della Libertà, pick the trail up again, and close the case in Ferrara when it suits you.