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Murder mysteries · Edmonton
Murder Mystery Game in Edmonton: The Festival City Has a Year-Round Secret
Edmonton has more festivals per capita than almost any city in North America. The Edmonton International Fringe Festival is the largest in North America after the Edinburgh original. The Folk Music Festival on the river…
Murder mysteries · Quebec
Murder Mystery Game in Quebec City: Old World Atmosphere, New World Adventure
Quebec City might be the single best city in North America for an outdoor murder mystery game. Consider what it has: the only walled city north of Mexico, 400 years of French history embedded in stone and cobblestone,…
Date ideas · Winnipeg
Murder Mystery Game in Winnipeg: The Heart of the Continent's Most Underrated Date Night
Winnipeg is geographically the most isolated major city in Canada, equidistant from Vancouver, Toronto, and Hudson Bay, sitting at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers on the flattest terrain on the…
Murder mysteries · Victoria, BC
Murder Mystery Game in Victoria, BC: The Garden City's Most Immersive Evening Activity
Victoria occupies a particular place in the Canadian imagination: the most British city west of London, they say, with its afternoon teas and double-decker buses and flower baskets on the lamp posts and the Empress…
Murder mysteries · Kitchener
Murder Mystery Game in Kitchener-Waterloo: Canada's Silicon Valley Has a Puzzle-Solving Problem (In the Best Way)
Kitchener-Waterloo has a claim that sounds implausible until you look at the numbers: this region of 600,000 people produces more tech startups per capita than any other area in Canada, has a higher density of software…
Murder mysteries · Hamilton, Ontario
Murder Mystery Game in Hamilton, ON: The Steel City's Creative Reinvention Makes the Perfect Mystery Setting
Hamilton has spent the last fifteen years becoming one of the most interesting cities in Canada, and the rest of the country is only now catching up. The steel mills that defined it for a century are still there, the…
Date ideas · Halifax
Murder Mystery Game in Halifax: Atlantic Canada's Best Date Night Is on the Waterfront
Halifax punches above its weight in almost every category. A city of 440,000 people (metro) that has a world-class waterfront, a downtown that functions at a scale its size shouldn't support, a university ecosystem…
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Murder Mystery Game in Calgary: The Rockies Are Right There, But This Date Night Doesn't Need Them
Calgary operates under the permanent gravitational pull of the mountains. Banff is 90 minutes west. Canmore is closer. The Rockies are visible on a clear day from downtown. The outdoor recreation culture here is…
Date ideas · Ottawa
Murder Mystery Game in Ottawa: The Capital City's Best Date Night Nobody Talks About
Ottawa has a reputation problem that its residents understand intimately. The federal government dominates the city's identity in the national imagination, suits, bureaucracy, politics, the kind of place you fly into…
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Murder Mystery Game in Baton Rouge: Louisiana's Capital City Has Its Own Magic
Everyone drives through Baton Rouge on the way to New Orleans. This is the great misfortune of Louisiana's capital city, it sits 80 miles upriver from one of the world's most famous party destinations, and many visitors…
Murder mysteries · Wichita
Murder Mystery Game in Wichita: Kansas's Biggest City Has More Going On Than You Think
Wichita is America's aviation capital, more planes have been built here than anywhere else on earth, a distinction that Boeing, Cessna, Beechcraft, and Learjet between them have maintained for a century. It's also the…
Date ideas · Wilmington, NC
Murder Mystery Game in Wilmington, NC: Where Hollywood Meets Colonial History on a Date Night
Wilmington, North Carolina occupies an unusual position among American cities: it is simultaneously a colonial port city with architecture dating from the 1700s, one of the largest film and TV production hubs on the…
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Murder Mystery Game in Sarasota: The Cultural Coast's Most Engaging Evening Activity
Sarasota has a reputation that doesn't quite capture what it actually is. People think: retirement community, golf, Siesta Key Beach. These things are real and they have their merits. But Sarasota is also one of the…
Date ideas · Tulsa
Murder Mystery Game in Tulsa: Art Deco, Oil Money, and Oklahoma's Best Date Night
Tulsa is the most architecturally surprising city in Oklahoma and possibly one of the most architecturally surprising cities in the American interior. The oil boom of the 1920s hit Tulsa at exactly the moment when Art…
Murder mysteries · Pensacola
Murder Mystery Game in Pensacola: The Emerald Coast's Best Activity When You're Done with the Beach
Pensacola is often the Florida Panhandle's best-kept secret, which is strange given how long it's been here. The city was founded in 1559, sixty years before Plymouth Rock, making it the oldest European settlement in…
Date ideas · Lexington, KY
Murder Mystery Game in Lexington, KY: The Date Night the Bourbon Trail Forgot to Mention
Lexington is the kind of city that surprises people. They come for bourbon, the Bluegrass region is the heart of American whiskey, and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail runs through the landscape around Lexington like a…
Date ideas · Huntsville
Murder Mystery Game in Huntsville, AL: Rocket City's Best Kept Date Night Secret
Huntsville is one of the most interesting cities in America right now, and the rest of the country hasn't quite caught up. The fastest-growing city in Alabama, driven by aerospace, defense tech, and an influx of highly…
Date ideas · Virginia Beach
Murder Mystery Game in Virginia Beach: The Date Night That Goes Beyond the Boardwalk
Virginia Beach is a city that most people think they understand before they arrive. The beach. The boardwalk. The resort strip. And yes, those things are real and they're genuinely good, 35 miles of coastline, a…
Date ideas · Seattle
Murder Mystery Game in Tacoma: The Date Night That Proves You Don't Need Seattle
Tacoma has spent decades living in Seattle's shadow, and the residents will tell you, with varying degrees of pride, that this is fine. The shadow has its advantages: lower rents, shorter lines, a creative community…
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Murder Mystery Game in St. Augustine: America's Oldest City Makes the Best Mystery Setting
St. Augustine has been building mystery atmosphere since 1565. That's not a metaphor, the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the United States has been accumulating stories, secrets, and…
Halloween & ghosts · Savannah
Murder Mystery Game in Savannah: The Most Fun You Can Have in America's Most Haunted City
Savannah was practically built for a murder mystery. The Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks in the squares, the antebellum mansions with their darkened upper windows, the cobblestone streets that slope toward a…
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Murder Mystery Game in Richmond, VA: The Best Date Night in a City Full of Hidden History
Richmond is one of those American cities that has been quietly becoming excellent for a decade while other places got the headlines. The restaurant scene is genuinely world-class in several categories. The art and music…
Date ideas · Raleigh, NC
Murder Mystery Game in Raleigh, NC: The Triangle's Best Date Night Activity
Raleigh is the kind of city that people move to and immediately start telling everyone else about. The Research Triangle brings in a highly educated, activity-hungry population from across the country. The restaurant…
Date ideas · Nashville
Murder Mystery Game in Nashville: The Best Date Night (That Escape Room Fans Will Love)
Nashville has no shortage of things to do on a Saturday night. The honky-tonks on Broadway are famous for a reason, the restaurant scene has exploded over the last decade, and there are enough rooftop bars to satisfy…
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