Bangkok Self-Guided Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery Game

In Bangkok the game opens at Tha Chang Pier on the river, where the ferries come in, and moves inland from there. The route runs along the old defences at Phu Pha Suthat Fort, over to Wat Pho and back through the streets around the Bangkok City Pillar Shrine. It is a self-guided murder mystery game, played at walking pace through the old quarter.

This part of Bangkok is flat but hot, and the pavements are busy, so build in shade and water stops. It suits families with children, groups of friends, couples and colleagues, and one person can play it alone without trouble. A team is up to four people looking at the same phone; a bigger group splits into several teams. No guide comes along, and there is no set hour at which you have to start.

How to play

You handle everything from your phone, which keeps the beginning simple.

1. Book the City Game
2. Check the instructions email
3. Download the Loquiz app
4. Start playing whenever you like

The case is the murder of Balthasar. There are codes to break, photographs to take at set points and digital characters whose statements have to be checked against each other. Part of the evidence surfaces near Mani Prakan Fort and by the Statue of King Rama IV, where two accounts of the same evening cannot both be true.

With several teams walking at the same time, Bangkok turns the game into a race, and that is what makes it a workable teambuilding activity as well as a day with friends. Pause in the shade, take up the trail again, and finish the case whenever the afternoon allows.