28/01/2020
For anyone who enjoyed - or perhaps missed out on the Shrewsbury Detective Day hosted by CluedUpp Games earlier this month, they are running a new 'Witchcraft & Wizardry' themed event on July 4 (ÂŁ42 per team of up to six players). See below for booking details.
Here is Hayley Edwards with her review of the Peaky Blinders' theme event on Jan 18, to give you an idea of what to expect. Thank you Hayley!
CluedUpp Games – Shrewsbury Detective Day
A giant version of the board-game Cluedo on the streets of Shrewsbury?
Is Miss Scarlett scarlet?
Of course I was in! It would be a welcome distraction from my essay for University Centre Shrewsbury. I replied with a resounding “yes” to a friend’s FB comment - “we must do this!”
Fast-forward a month or so and the town was teaming with people in Peaky Blinders’ style fancy dress (us included) with family members young, old - and canine - roaming the streets, gazing up at the buildings and down at their phone screens.
The game works by using GPS to lead you about the town, where you encounter virtual witnesses to a “murder”. Clues, alibis and witness statement videos pop up on your phone when you reach the right place. Answering additional trivia questions at various locations will give you the right to interrogate further.
Our team’s main question in the first half hour or so was “What do I press now?!” We soon hit upon the excellent plan of going into the pub to “regroup and discuss tactics". Either that or "Why is it so flipping freezing?"
We twigged that we could ask witnesses questions from the comfort of the OPO,Shrewsbury, if we agreed to take a time penalty. After much scratching of heads, we realised we were massively over-complicating things. I won't give away the secret, but I will say simplicity is all!
This was a bit of a disappointment at first, as we’d all come up with some wonderful motives and back stories as to how the Vicar was having an elicit affair and had smuggled the cyanide in his dog-collar. Now that we realise how to play the game, we’d very much like to have another go, which is excellent news as on July 4 this year, there will be a “Witchcraft & Wizardry” version taking place in Shrewsbury.
So, we will be putting our peaked caps and deer-stalkers into storage and dusting off our wands and robes and having a good old “Potter” around Shrewsbury to try to solve the mystery! This time perhaps we will realise, with more than seven minutes to go, that you have to physically walk to at least five of the witness locations in order to be able to submit an answer and can’t just sit in pub all afternoon taking time penalties and turns to get the fizzy drinks in…
www.cluedupp.com/products/shrewsbury-detective-day-4th-of-july-2020