Leipzig Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The Markt in Leipzig is the starting point, and from the square the route moves outward towards the ring around the old centre. It passes the Oper Leipzig and the Gewandhaus, which stand facing one another, before heading back in. This is a self-guided murder mystery game in which Leipzig supplies the streets and the game supplies the case. The centre is flat and easy to cross on foot, though this route reaches beyond it, so allow for a few longer stretches. Families with children, friends, couples and colleagues all get through it, and a single player manages just as well. A team is a maximum of four people sharing one phone; bigger groups split up into more teams. No guide walks with you and no start time is fixed, so the day is yours to arrange. How to playFour steps come before the first clue in Leipzig. 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 decode messages, take photographs where the app asks for them, and listen to digital characters whose statements pull in different directions. The Grassi Museum of Ethnology and the Leipzig University Library both appear on the trail, and every solved puzzle removes another suspect. With several teams playing at once it becomes a race, which is why it serves as a teambuilding activity as well as an afternoon out. Stop for a coffee, continue when you want, and close the case in Leipzig at the end of it.