Gardens of West Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The trail starts on the Iwan Kantemanplein in Amsterdam Nieuw-West and works its way west. In roughly two hours on foot you cross the Ecuplein and the Valutaboulevard, then leave the post-war blocks behind for the Osdorperweg and the Dorpsplein at the heart of the old village. It is a self-guided walking tour built around a murder investigation. This is two neighbourhoods in one walk — wide modern avenues and then a village street with farmhouses on it — and it is level the whole way, 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 Gardens of West is a matter of four steps. Book the City Game Check the instructions email Download the Loquiz app 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 Ecuplein and the Dorpsplein, 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 Dorpsplein, pick the trail up again, and close the case in Gardens of West when it suits you.