Immersive Treasure Hunt Adventure in York

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Embark on an immersive treasure hunt adventure in York. Unravel cryptic clues, meet historical figures, and save the city from ancient monsters. Can you solve the mystery?

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Constantine the Great - History and mythology collide in this tale of ancient York. Meet a Roman Emperor, a Norse monster, and a Greek sea goddess. Riddle your way through fact and fiction, as you try to save the city from being made a modern day Atlantis. Along the way, discover stunning buildings, historic statues and taverns fit for Caesar himself.

There are three optional pub/cafe breaks on this trail; each one a third of the way around.

Distance: 5.0 km
No Local Knowledge Required!
Difficulty: 3 / 5
Avg Duration: 2.5 - 3.5 hours
Number of Clues: 19

How it works:
When you reach your start point, you will receive cryptic instructions, sent to your phone. Decipher them, send us your answer and you will be given the next clue. One by one, these riddles will take you on a journey through the city and through legend itself. Solve them all to complete the trail.

Hints are available if you need a helping hand, and you can ask for directions if you get lost.

Feeling competitive? All our games are timed and ranked on our leaderboard. Why not challenge your friends!

What's Included

Lost messages for direction assistance.
Hint messages for clue assistance.
Riddle trail delivered to your phone.
Uses Telegram/Whatsapp apps.

Additional Information

Embark on a captivating exploration of York’s past and present. Decode puzzling hints during your escapade around the city. Interact with characters from mythology and history, crack brain teasers, visit quaint cafes and unique bars. Do you possess the courage to conquer age-old beasts and rescue the city? Team up to decipher each hint and hunt for an immediate response. All delivered to your smartphone via Telegram or Whatsapp (available for free on all app stores).

Travellers should be comfortable with walking around 5km.

Location

Constantine the Great

Minster Yard

After purchase you will receive a text message with instructions on how to set up the trail. Once you're set up, you'll receive a location of where to start the trail. Any questions, just get in touch!

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Elainelp5371qz

Apr 19, 2023

A wonderful experience to learn about York - A fun and interactive way to discover York. We were entertained by the queer clues and had hints to help us along the way. We got to see York and its many wonders. Thank you for such a wonderful experience.

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168davidm168

Mar 6, 2022

Excellent experience - Really enjoyable. My wife and I wanted something different to the usual 'date night' and I found this online. So glad we did. I highly recommend. No local knowledge is required. Indeed, the 'mission' took mee to parts of York I'd never seen. One of the best couple of hours I can reccomend in York.

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Spinkyminky

Jun 14, 2021

Excellent afternoon of clues and fun - We did the secret city murder mystery in York at the weekend we chose to use what's app for the clues and as I work in this industry I wanted to see how well it all worked. I can safely say it was seemless and alot of fun the clues came quickly and gave great cryptic clues make sure you read the questions tho a few times I read them a Completyly different way to my husband lol which meant some back tracking but we had a great time exploring the back streets and outer edges of York it took us just over 2 hours to complete at a leasuirly pace and we stopped for lunch and some drinks at one of the allotted break times all in all highly recomend I'd definatly like to do more of these tours

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David_e

Aug 11, 2024

Not bad, but overall - a bit of a let down - Sadly, having done similar outdoor city escape rooms before, this one was a bit of a let down. The "plot" (trying to avoid the flooding of the city of York by the Kraken) was a little convoluted and introduced part way through the process. It therefore didn't have much impact. There were some texts that explained locations and their history but these needed to be formatted differently to the clue/instruction type texts. A couple of clues were really annoying. One coukld have been better worded so as to avoid going down a wrong path only to find an totally plausible (but totally wrong answer). Also, following "white walls" lead to a waste of an hour as the wall we needed were actually cream and again lead to areas that totally met the clue criteria. More care needed to here to ensure customers don't replace fun with utter frustration. Lastly, the ending of the game just stopped at a certain venue. We had addrived. That was it. Wah? Eh? Bit of a let down. Where this game was good, it was enjoyable. But a little more fine tuning is needed.

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Lisa_c

Jul 16, 2021

Very hard - didn’t complete it - We had a good laugh but found it very difficult and after the hints there’s no more help. By accident we realised if you keep putting in guesses eventually you’ll move to the next clue but when you’re lost it made it so hard to follow. Good idea but not with teens.

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