Self-Guided The Cairns Syndicate City Escape Game

Munro Martin Parklands is the meeting point, and the opening task sends your team out of the gardens and into the grid of streets beyond. The route takes in the Cairns Museum, the Cairns Art Gallery and the waterfront at the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon. It is an outdoor escape game: the tasks sit out on the pavement, not behind a locked door. The centre of Cairns is flat, laid out in blocks and short on hills, which makes it manageable for families, couples and groups of colleagues, though the heat in the middle of the day is worth planning around. A ticket covers a team of two to five sharing one phone, and each member picks up a character with a defined role in the mission. Larger groups run as two or more teams. Nobody guides you and there is no set departure. How to playSetting up before you start in Cairns is quick. Book the City Game Check the instructions email Download the Loquiz app Start playing whenever you like Magnus is the target: the formulas he took are still moving, and the traces lead through the blocks between the Cairns City Library and the water. Your team breaks codes, untangles riddles and completes photo tasks, with each character holding a piece the rest of the group needs before it can move on. Two teams out at once makes it a competition, and the results are easy enough to compare afterwards, which is part of why it is used for team building. Since there is no clock running, a break in the shade costs you nothing. Cairns stays the playing field from the first task to the last.