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Clue 00 · a taster, not the real route
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Next, if this were real

A second line, half a mile on, waiting by a doorway that isn't there any more — except it is, you're just looking at the wrong bit of it.

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That's one of eighteen. The real one takes about three hours and the whole of Belfast city centre.

Step 1 of 3
Decrypt
A message arrives. Work out where it's sending you.
A message arrives.
Work out where it's sending you. No app to download — it just turns up in the chat you already have open.
The answer isn't online.
It's carved on the thing itself. You'll get there by walking, not by searching.
Get it right, it opens.
The next clue arrives the moment you do. Get it wrong and it just tells you, no fuss.

A real walk. We're not telling you where.

Somewhere in there is a bell that hasn't rung true since a flood, a doorway with something underfoot, and a fish that ate the city. You'll find them the hard way.

You'll learn the city with your feet.

Every clue sits next to something real. Four kilometres in, you'll know more Belfast history than a walking tour that costs twice as much — you just won't have been told any of it. You'll have found it.

A pub the National Trust owns

Because somebody, at some point, decided a bar could be heritage too. You'll understand why, standing in the doorway.

A spire a century younger than the church

Stainless steel, lit from below, bolted onto a building that predates it by generations. Belfast does that a lot.

Two cranes named after a giant

One's called Goliath. Guess what beat him. Between them they built more tonnage than most countries manage in a century.

Linen woven on the first computers

Jacquard looms ran on punched cards a century before anyone called that programming. Belfast wove more damask than anywhere on earth.

4km
on foot
~3hrs
give or take
2–6
to a team
TBC
not on sale yet

Who it's for.

Birthdays where nobody wants a pub quiz.
Work outings for people who'd rather argue about a cipher than fall backwards into a colleague.
Visitors who've done the black cab tour. Locals who think they know the city better than they do.

Not selling tickets yet. On purpose.

The route's still being walked and checked, clue by clue, before anyone pays for it. Leave your email and you'll hear the moment that changes — nothing else. Bring a charged phone; that's the only kit required.