Top Leiden Self-guided Tours

During the Discovery Trip "The Stolen Keys", you will explore the city of Leiden during a 90-minute self-guided walking tour. In 90 minutes, you will see the most iconic places of Leiden while solving fun puzzles about the environment. Do your best and set a new high score for the trip together with your friends or family. As Discovery Trips is self-guided, there are no fixed starting times. You can pick whenever you want to start discovering. Furthermore, the trip is available in English, German and Dutch. So, what are you waiting for? Let's discover!

Discover Leiden like never before with the Secrets of Leiden City Game, a fun self-guided walking tour and city game packed with puzzles, riddles and hidden stories! This GPS-based exploration game lets you experience Leiden while exploring famous spots such as the Pieterskerk, Leiden University Academiegebouw, windmill Molen De Valk, the Engelse Poort and the historic canals. Play solo for a personal challenge or together with friends, family or colleagues. During the game you solve tricky questions, puzzles, riddles and creative photo tasks to score points, unlock extra clues and solve the final mystery. Pause whenever you want and continue later at your own pace. Compete for a place on the leaderboard or play competitively for team building, making this scavenger hunt and walking tour through Leiden perfect for every type of explorer.

Make the most of your Noordwijk family vacation with this fun self-guided city trail treasure hunt game, designed for kids aged 4–8. You’ll follow clues on your mobile phone and help the kids complete educational assignments from counting and naming colors to recognizing objects and animals, all the while immersing in your outdoors environment. Up to five kids can play on one team.

Explore Leiden in this self-guided detective scavenger hunt. In City Detective, you and your team solve a fictional case while exploring the city: an internationally renowned AI-scientist was abducted from his home, and it’s up to you to unmask the culprit. This fun and flexible Leiden city game lets you follow clues, eliminate suspects, and solve puzzles using your own smartphone. Along the way, you'll uncover quirky facts, hidden gems, and iconic landmarks, making it a unique thing to do in Leiden. Highlights: - Self-guided scavenger hunt through Leiden city centre. - Play at your own pace: start and pause whenever you like. - Follow clues, solve puzzles, and eliminate suspects. - Use your own phone = no tour guide needed. - Access via the Qugato app. - Available in English and Dutch. Whether you're with friends, family, or colleagues, this Leiden detective game is a fun, flexible and interactive way to explore the city and challenge your inner sleuth.

Discover Leiden’s city center, without having to keep up with a large tour group, with this interactive, self-guided scavenger hunt. Simply download the app onto your smartphone, and set off as you solve clues and play games that guide you around the city. A unique alternative to a traditional walking tour that you can stop and start as you please.

Leiden itself becomes the puzzle in this self-guided outdoor escape game - no venue, no host, just your team and the streets. Magnus has taken the formulas and scattered the proof across the old centre, past Vismarkt, and every location holds a code, a riddle or a photo task waiting to be cracked. Roles matter here: one player reads, another looks, and the team moves on only once you agree. Send two or more teams out at the same time and the hunt becomes a contest, which is what makes this city escape game work as well for a team-building afternoon as for a day out with friends. Reading clues while the city moves around you is part of the challenge.

Leiden becomes the crime scene in this self-guided detective game, where the clues are hidden in plain sight in the streets around you. The case is the murder of Balthasar, and the evidence is scattered across the old centre - past Burcht van Leiden, Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, Stadhuis Leiden and National Museum of Ethnology. You decode messages, photograph what does not add up and press digital witnesses whose stories never quite line up. Every puzzle you crack removes a name from the list of suspects. Play as a couple, bring the children along, or send two or three teams out at the same time and turn the investigation into a race - which is what makes this murder mystery game work as well for a team outing as for a day out. The last answer is waiting somewhere in the centre of Leiden.

There's been a murder in the city. The police can't figure it out and time is ticking. Are you up for the challenge? With photos and a city map, you go into the city, looking for the right locations. At each location you take a group selfie and receive a new clue. Step by step you are getting closer to the truth.