Elgin, IL
Murder Mystery in Elgin
A case file instead of a checklist. Each stop hands you evidence, and the hunt ends when your team names a suspect.
- Where
- Any downtown blockYou pick the starting corner
- Distance
- 1–2 MilesOn foot, and it loops back
- Time
- 2 HoursPause and resume all day
- Price
$16$8Per person, launch sale
Elgin, IL
The whole downtown is the board.
This is the one everything else is built on. Ten or twelve stops spread across the walkable core, scored on points, finished in an afternoon. No theme, no gimmick — just your downtown, harder than you expected.
What the stops are like
A mix of things you have to find and things you have to work out. Some stops want a photograph, some want an answer only visible from the right spot, and at least one will send you past something you have walked by a hundred times without reading.
How the scoring runs
Points per stop, more for the harder ones. Clues cost points if you take them, so a team that solves it cold finishes above a team that asked. The leaderboard settles it.
Pace
Two hours if you keep moving. Longer if you stop for lunch, which plenty of teams do — the hunt pauses and picks back up whenever you want.
Who it suits
Best for
First-timers, visitors with a free afternoon, and anyone who has lived somewhere twenty years and never looked up.
Where you can play it
Murder Mystery, city by city.
Not listed? The Anywhere Hunt runs in any downtown in the US or Canada.