Leeuwarden Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The game starts at Hofplein. From there the route works through the centre of Leeuwarden, past the Fries Museum and along the canals that cut the old town into pieces. It is a self-guided walking tour written as a murder mystery, and the city supplies the rest. Families with children, friends, couples and colleagues all play it, and so do solo detectives. A team is up to four people with one phone between them, and anything larger is split across several tickets. Leeuwarden is small and level, which means teams meet on the same corners more than once and the whole route stays inside a short radius. There is no guide walking ahead and no hour you have to be anywhere. How to playGetting the game running in Leeuwarden takes 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 case is the murder of Balthasar. You break codes, complete photo tasks and take statements from digital characters who each remember the evening differently. One puts himself behind the walls of the Blokhuispoort; another was supposedly at the Grote of Jacobijnerkerk. Somewhere between the Ceramics Museum Princessehof and the canal, the story stops holding together. More than one team turns the streets into a contest, and that competitive edge is what makes it work for teambuilding as much as for a family afternoon. Pause whenever you like and continue later. The case ends where it began, in the middle of Leeuwarden.