Oudewater Self-Guided Detective Murder Mystery Game

The game starts at Stadskantoor Oudewater. In roughly two hours on foot you take in the Marktstraat, the stepped gable of the town hall, the Sint-Franciscuskerk and the Grote or St. Michaelskerk. It is a self-guided walking tour built around a murder investigation. Oudewater is small and level and built along its canal, 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 Oudewater is a matter of 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 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 Marktstraat and the Grote or St. Michaelskerk, 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 Markt, pick the trail up again, and close the case in Oudewater when it suits you.