Cambridge Self-Guided City Exploration Game: Scholars and Secret Societies

Explore Cambridge on a self-guided city riddle game on your smartphone, visiting top colleges and the Round Church with flexible 24/7 access.

Getting started

Use your own smartphone with at least 50% battery and an active internet connection to access the self-guided city riddle game. Before you set off, contact the provided link to share your email address so the activity can be unlocked. Once activated, you can choose when to start, pause, and resume, with no need to meet a physical tour guide or join a group.

What to expect

Cambridge city and top colleges

You move through central Cambridge at your own pace, using your phone to navigate between the top Cambridge colleges and nearby historical sites. The route is designed so you explore both famous spots and hidden corners without needing a map, GPS, or a guide.

Features

• Visits to top Cambridge colleges are built into the self-guided city riddle game on your smartphone, so each academic courtyard or façade you reach is linked to a specific puzzle and location story.
• As you role-play a medieval student in a secret society, you follow clues between colleges, solving riddles that unlock secret stories about revolutionary books and campus life.
• The private tour format lets you avoid crowds, since there is no physical tour guide and no group to follow, and you can choose less busy times of day for your exploration.
• Flexible 24/7 start, pause, and resume access means you can break for a café stop or return another day without losing your place in the game.

Round Church and other historical sites

The experience includes a stop at the Round Church along with other historical sites in Cambridge, which appear as key points in your story. Each location connects back to your role in the secret society and to the broader tale of scholars and ideas.

Features

• At the Round Church, your phone prompts you with a themed riddle; solving it unlocks a dedicated location story that explains the building's role within your medieval student narrative.
• Additional historical sites become stages in your mission, where riddles to solve and unlock location stories reveal hidden gems that are easy to miss without structured clues.
• You enjoy a self-guided tour with no need for a map, GPS, or guide, since the riddles and clues move you from one site to the next using only your smartphone.
• Throughout, the game format keeps everything self-paced and device-based, so you can engage with each stop as long as you like while remaining independent and contact-free.