Kingston, Ontario

THE PURSUITKINGSTON

In the country's first capital, the stone keeps its secrets.

A sealed-envelope investigation  ·  On foot  ·  Built & ready
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The invitation

Every capital keeps records. Kingston keeps them in limestone.

Grey walls and a garrison on the hill. A prison that held two centuries of secrets. A statesman who got his start on these streets. The city is a locked box — and tonight you hold the key, if you can read it.

You'll be handed sealed envelopes, one at a time, and sent out on foot to piece together what the stone remembers.

But a garrison town keeps a schedule. The gates don't wait for anyone.

This isn't a scavenger hunt. It's a cipher, hidden in plain sight across the oldest streets in the country's first capital.

For any group

The Limestone Cipher

Read the city before it locks down.

Rival teams move through the first capital — its market square, its fort, its walls and its waterfront — gathering the pieces of something the city never meant to give up. One cipher, two sides, and a clock that doesn't stop.

  • Every stop is real — and every stop verifies. No "tap done."
  • Equal parts history, intrigue and foot-race
  • No guide and no map — just the city and what it's hiding
Enter the Cipher
How it works

Sealed envelopes. One city. No guidebook.

A story that unfolds in your hands as you walk — and a reckoning at the end. Play phones-down on sealed envelopes, or live on the app; either way, the shape is the same.

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The Sealed Envelopes

Open them one at a time, in order, on the honour system. Each sends your team somewhere new — and the cipher deepens with every seal you break.

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The Trade-Up

Optional — switch it on if your group wants it. Every team starts with one small trinket and trades it up, charm only and no money, into something better. Best item and best story win at the Tribunal.

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Verified Checkpoints

No "tap done." You prove you were there and that you cracked it — on the stone, on the spot — before the next envelope opens.

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The Tribunal

Everyone reconvenes for the reveal, where the whole night turns on its head and every team renders its verdict.

The answers aren't in a guidebook.

They're carved into the limestone, posted on the walls, and hiding behind buildings that have worn more than one name. You bring the curiosity. The city brings the rest.

Bring it to Kingston

Some of it is on the plaques.
Most of it isn't.

Dates for the Kingston edition are being set now. Get in touch to bring The Pursuit to your group, or step into the first capital and start reading the stone.