Immersive Experience in Chicago Lets Visitors Play a Classic Board Game in Real Life
When the days get dark earlier and the cold wind outside chils you to the bone, a cozy board game night at home with your friends can really help lift those winter blues. For some people, though, gathering over a game board in a living room isn't enough of a thrill to stave off their seasonal slump. Why not make game night more immersive, more interactive, more... real?
If that sounds like an interesting proposition, then I think you'll get a kick out of this new innovative experience that's come to Chicago. At Block 37 in the Loop area of downtown Chicago, participants are invited to play a classic board game- only instead of playing it the traditional way, they act it out in real life!
Is there any board game that translates better to real world play than Clue? It's a murder mystery party pre-packaged and ready to go! Chicago culture guide @bored_in_chicago introduced this exciting, life-sized alternative to your classic board game night. While Clue: A Walking Mystery falls short of Jumanji in terms of total immersion (probably for the best, tbh), guests can take their gaming experience to the next level and become the players on the board!
Starting on theme, a butler greets players and gives them all the materials they need to solve the mystery. Blowing the layout of the classic Clue board up to scale, the various "rooms" and "murder instruments" from the game are scattered around Block 37. In a murder mystery-themed scavenger hunt, players have to go around to each area, collect pieces of evidence, and use their deductive reasoning skills to eliminate possibilites until they've cracked the case! Along the way, players will have to solve extra puzzles and riddles that expand the original game into a fully fleshed-out experience.
On the Clue: A Walking Mystery website, you can buy tickets for timeslots from now until December 31 (and at $35 per person, it's honestly a steal). However, there's an interesting twist here: when you buy an individual ticket, you pick a playable persona from the game, like Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlet. That means that you and your party are the suspects- and one of you is the murderer... Things just got real!
The final case will officially be closed on New Year's Eve, so if Clue: A Walking Mystery sounds like an exciting shakeup to your normal game night routine, jump onto the opportunity before it leaves the Windy City for good!
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