First Boda Borg Team Play Experience in Germany Now Open

(eap) The first Boda Borg team play adventure world in Germany has opened in the Ruhr Park shopping center in Bochum. 18 different quests – game missions – are housed in a total of almost 60 rooms. Groups of three to a maximum of five players can choose adventures in three categories: Cleverness, Skills or Physical Effort. Unlike the escape room concept, the aim is not to solve as many puzzles as possible in a given time, but to master various tasks in order to advance to the next room. If the team fails a challenge, the mission starts all over again, just like in a computer game. How much time the players need for their respective quest is up to them – as a rule, there should be around two to three missions to solve during a two-hour visit. The various quests have titles such as “Scary Movie”, “The Mummy” and “Dansa Pausa”. The elaborately designed backdrops take players to worlds such as a pharaoh’s tomb, a forest landscape or a mysterious cinema... The minimum playing age is seven years, accompanied by a supervisor. Children aged twelve and over may play alone as part of a team. 

The Boda Borg concept originated in Sweden in the 1990s, when the first facility of this kind opened in an old castle (“Borg”) in the small town of Boda. There are now seven locations in Sweden, as well as one each in Ireland (Lough Key), the USA (Boston), Switzerland (Zurich) and now in Germany. The German entrepreneurial team around Fredrik Elmberg, Florian Richter and Boris Börsch initiated the German expansion under the original Swedish license. Stefan Jost is the managing director. Further locations in Germany are to follow. ■