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City Conquest – Race Through Athens
Group games: teams against each other

City Conquest

Race Through Athens

€19.95 per team

A city game where teams play against each other: at least 2 teams of 1–4 players, each team on its own phone.

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  • 120 min
  • 30 zones
  • 20 factions
  • 2–20 teams

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What does it cost for your group?

Teams (up to 4 each): 3

Without a game master

€59.85

≈ €4.99 per person

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With a game master

€199.00

≈ €16.58 per person

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Welcome to City Conquest in Athens! Your teams race through the old heart of the city at the foot of the Acropolis: from the cathedral square and the Little Metropolis to Monastiraki and the Roman market, from the Tower of the Winds and the Monument of Lysicrates in Plaka to Hadrian's Arch, from Syntagma Square and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the National Garden, and up to the Academy and the University on Panepistimiou Street. Go to an area, do its task there and conquer it; another team can take it back from you. Every task can only be done on the spot: read, count, pace it out, find the way, crack the puzzle. Every zone belongs to one of the five faculties, from what the place is (a university asks for knowledge, a museum for creativity), and your side scores more in the zones it is good at. At the churches, the old mosques and the memorial you are a guest: play quietly there, and keep to the pavements on the big avenues. Watch out for the bonus spots, open chests and visit the merchant. When the time is up, gather again behind the cathedral: the team that holds the most areas wins.

How to play

  1. 1

    Explore

    Walk through the real city. The map shows every zone: free, taken by a team in its colour, or locked for a few minutes. The game starts at .

  2. 2

    Conquer

    Step into a zone and open its task: a puzzle, a riddle, something to count or a code to crack on the spot, now and then a photo. Get it right and the zone takes your colour , and you earn 30 ducats .

  3. 3

    Defend and take back

    Other teams can take your zones once the lock is over, and you can take theirs. A zone stays with the team that conquers it. The first team at a bonus spot gets a power-up in its backpack .

  4. 4

    Final count

    When the time is up, the team with the most points wins; with equal points, the most ducats . Be at the meeting point in time: the herald calls everyone together.

Every zone has ten tasks about what you can really find there. Each team gets a different one, and a new one every time it comes back, so answers can't be passed on.

20 factions

Every zone has a field that fits the place: knowledge at a library, creativity at a museum, charm on a market square, speed on a bridge or quay, power at a fortress or tower. The stronger your faction is in a zone's field, the more points that zone is worth to you, so every faction has its own zones to go for.

  • Companions of Theseus
  • Owls of Athena
  • Hoplites of Marathon
  • Runners of Pheidippides
  • Rowers of Salamis
  • Builders of the Parthenon
  • Pericles' Assembly
  • Philosophers of the Agora
  • Chorus of Dionysus
  • Potters of the Kerameikos
  • Merchants of the Agora
  • Hadrian's Romans
  • Heruli Raiders
  • Monks of Kaisariani
  • Dukes of the Acciaioli
  • Dervishes of the Tower
  • Fighters of 1821
  • Court of King Otto
  • Serenaders of Plaka
  • Smiths of Ifestou Street

Ducats, chests and drops

Chests

Every 20 minutes the herald hides chests in the streets. The first team within 30 m opens one: ducats , a potion, a defence or something to leave for others.

The merchant

You start with 50 ducats and earn more by conquering, holding zones and approved photos. Spend them at the merchant : you can buy anywhere, and at his spot you get 20% off.

Drops and fog

Leave a bomb, trap, fog, curse or sabotage on the street . Only your team sees it; the team that walks into it is hit. Fog hides their map beyond 100 m. A scout shows drops near you : walk to one to defuse it.

  • Speed potionWait times and zone locks halved for 10 minutes.
  • Wisdom potionRemoves one wrong answer from your next multiple-choice question.
  • Strength potionYour next conquest scores double.
  • ShieldBlocks the next attack on your team (20 seconds to react).
  • MirrorSends the next attack straight back to the team that left it.
  • AntidoteEnds fog, a trap or a curse at once.
  • ScoutShows other teams' drops within 100 m for 2 minutes; walk to one to defuse it.
  • BombLeave it on the street: the team that walks into it loses 25 points.
  • TrapLeave it on the street: 3 minutes no conquering and no answering.
  • FogLeave it on the street: for 4 minutes their map shows only 100 m around them.
  • CurseLeave it on the street: on their next 2 questions a wrong answer costs double.
  • SabotageLeave it on the street: steals one thing from their backpack (or 30 ducats).

30 zones

  1. Mitropoleos Square (the cathedral front)
  2. The Little Metropolis
  3. Kapnikarea (the church in the middle of the street)
  4. Ermou Street (the pedestrian shopping street)
  5. Agia Irini Square
  6. Aiolou Street (at Sofokleous Street)
  7. The Central Market (Athinas Street)
  8. Monastiraki Square (the old station and Ifestou Street)
  9. The Tzistarakis Mosque
  10. Hadrian's Library (the great west wall on Areos Street)
  11. The Roman market gate
  12. The Fethiye Mosque (seen from Panos Street)
  13. The Tower of the Winds (Aerides)
  14. The Kleanthis-Schaubert House (Tholou Street)
  15. The Benizelos Mansion (Adrianou Street)
  16. Agios Nikolaos Rangavas
  17. The Monument of Lysicrates
  18. Agia Aikaterini Square
  19. Filomousou Eterias Square (Plaka)
  20. Hadrian's Arch
  21. The Russian Church
  22. Syntagma Square
  23. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
  24. The National Garden (main gate)
  25. Iliou Melathron (Panepistimiou Street)
  26. The Old Parliament and the general on horseback
  27. Klafthmonos Square
  28. Agioi Theodoroi (the church by Klafthmonos Square)
  29. The Academy of Athens
  30. The University of Athens (the old main building)

Two ways to play

Without a game master

You play on your own. The organiser opens the game master page, chooses the default language and the playing time, and starts the game. From then on everything runs by itself on every phone: the zones, the chests, the merchant and the final count.

€19.95 per team

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With a game master

Someone leads the game from the game master page: follows every team live with its points and zones, sends messages to all teams, adds 15 minutes or stops the game, gives a team a power-up or puts a chest right next to it, and looks at the photos. The game master never sees the answers.

€199.00 including 5 teams, €19.95 per extra team

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The organiser sets up the game on the game master page (the default language and the playing time) and starts it for all teams.

Every player can pick and switch the language on their own phone.

What the game master sees

Live, on a laptop or tablet: where every team is, who holds which zone, and each team's points, ducats and items. From here the game master gives or takes points, sends a message to one team or to all teams, adds 15 minutes or pauses the game.

The City Conquest game master screen during a game: a live map with the teams and their zones, and one team's points, ducats and controls
Example game with made-up teams.

City Conquest Race Through Athens

€19.95 per team

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