Self-Guided The Aalborg Syndicate City Escape Game

The game starts at Budolfi Church in the middle of Aalborg, and the first clues send your team straight into the lanes around it. From there the route runs past Aalborg Kloster, across C. W. Obels Plads and on towards Vor Frue Kirke. It is an outdoor escape game, so the streets themselves are the board you play on. The old core here is small and level, which suits families with children, groups of friends, couples and colleagues walking at an easy pace. A team is two to five people sharing a single phone, and every player takes on their own character with a part to play in the mission, so the group has to pool what it knows. Larger parties split into several teams. There is no guide with you and no fixed departure, so you set off when the day suits you. How to playGetting going in Aalborg takes only a few minutes. Book the City Game Check the instructions email Download the Loquiz app Start playing whenever you like The trail belongs to Magnus, who has made off with a set of stolen formulas and left pieces of his network scattered through the city. You crack codes, work through riddles and take photo tasks that push your team into corners of the centre it would otherwise walk past, including the block around Aalborg Teater. Each character holds information the others do not, so progress depends on how well you share it. Send more than one team out at the same time and the whole thing turns into a race, with scores to compare afterwards, which is why it works for colleagues as well as for a weekend group. Nothing is running against you, so you can break for lunch and pick the hunt back up later. Aalborg is the playing field either way.