Giethoorn Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The trail starts at Museum De Oude Aarde in Giethoorn and follows the water through the village. In roughly two hours on foot you take in the footbridges over the canal, the farmhouse museum 't Olde Maat Uus and the Gloria Maris shell collection. It is a self-guided walking tour built around a murder investigation. Giethoorn is a village of canals, footbridges and reed-thatched roofs with almost no cars, 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 Giethoorn 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 Museum De Oude Aarde and Gloria Maris, 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 along the Binnenpad, pick the trail up again, and close the case in Giethoorn when it suits you.