Self-Guided The Marseille Syndicate City Escape Game

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This walking tours is one of the standout things to do in Marseille, France. it combines the highlights below into a single, easy-to-book experience from €20 per person. <p>The trail begins at Place Monthyon in Marseille and runs downhill from there toward the old harbour district. It passes Église Saint-Charles early on, then works through the streets around the Palais de la Bourse. This is an outdoor escape room in the literal sense: the puzzles are locked to places, and the city is what you cross to reach them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marseille slopes toward the water, so most of the walking is downhill on the way out and steeper coming back. A team is two to five people sharing one phone, and each player is given a character with a role in the mission, so the group solves as a group. More than five and you split into separate teams, each with a phone of its own. There is no guide, and the starting time is whatever the team decides on the day.</p><p><br /></p><h3>How to play</h3><p>Everything happens in an app, and the four steps below are all the setting up there is.</p><ol><li>Book the City Game</li><li>Check the instructions email</li><li>Download the Loquiz app</li><li>Start playing whenever you like.</li></ol><p><br /></p><p>Magnus took the stolen formulas out through this port, and the search for him leads through codes, riddles and photo tasks handed out by role. The route reaches Musée Cantini and turns back through Place Ernest Reyer, with several answers depending on two players putting what they were told side by side. There are stretches where the quickest team is simply the one that talks most.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several teams playing at the same time makes it a race between them, which is why it holds up as a team building exercise and not only as an afternoon out. Nothing is timed, so you can break for something to eat by the harbour and continue afterwards. The last of the clues leaves you in central Marseille.</p>