Nicosia Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The Cyprus Museum in Nicosia is where this case begins, and the trail runs from there into the walled old town. On foot you cross Eleftheria Square, pass through Paphos Gate and follow the line of the Nicosia Venetian Walls that still ring the centre. It is a self-guided murder mystery game, played on your phone, with the streets of the city as the crime scene. Nicosia is flat and the old town is small enough to cover comfortably in an afternoon, which makes this an outing for families with children, groups of friends, couples and colleagues alike, and it works on your own as well. A team is up to four people sharing a single phone; larger groups buy a ticket per team and play alongside each other. There is no guide and no fixed start time, so you set off when the group is ready and stop in a shaded courtyard when it suits you. How to playEverything runs through one app, and the setup is short. Book the City Game Check the instructions email Download the Loquiz app Start playing whenever you like The case is the murder of Balthasar. Statements from digital characters arrive as you walk, along with coded messages to break and photo tasks that send you looking closely at a doorway or an inscription. Around the Omeriye Mosque and in the lanes near the Leventis Municipal Museum the accounts start to contradict each other, and every solved puzzle removes another name from the list. Play with more than one team and Nicosia becomes a contest, with scores to compare at the end, which is why the game also works as a teambuilding activity. You can break off for a meal, pick up the trail later, and finish the case in the old streets of Nicosia.