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Queen’s Lost Diamonds — the world’s 昀椀rst unscripted, real-time,
player-led Anti-Game where 昀椀ction and reality merge entirely.
Over three days and two nights, Paris becomes the living playground
for the most complex and ambitious immersive one-o昀昀 game ever
attempted, one set to rede昀椀ne the genre entirely and break many world
records. The few selected players are dragged into a real and obscure,
centuries-old conspiracy where nothing is what it seems, and where the
game itself turns against them. They shape their own story in real time
through their choices and actions as they race to solve a non-昀椀ctional
mystery that scholars and experts have not yet been able to elucidate, all
while facing ambiguous opponents they might or might not have already
encountered.
By the time the players reach the end of The Queen’s Lost Diamonds,
nothing will resemble what they expected, not Paris, not the story and
certainly not themselves. Whether they win the game or not, they will
have made history by contributing through their investigation and deductions to shed new light on a centuries-old mystery. Ariodante will be
donating these 昀椀ndings to a world-renowned Parisian museum.
Gloria Villa
This frenetic cat and mouse race involves hundreds of actors and more
than 100 structural scenes in which storylines collide. It unfolds across
countless venues, including national monuments, cultural institutions
and historical locations that are never open to the public and have never
before allowed anything like this, with players investigating alongside
luminaries in hidden archives, ancient manuscripts, secluded palaces,
and other locations where history took place.
Tickets are not available for this one-of-a-kind game. Only a handful
of players will be chosen by Ariodante’s CEO, Ricardo Araujo, and only
they will be invited to purchase entry for themselves and their team.
They will receive the scarce practical details only after signing an NDA
to protect the absolute secrecy the game requires. The starting price,
excluding travel arrangements, is £437,000 for the entire game.
Leonard Cotte
To apply, visit Ariodante’s website: https://www.ariodantetravel.com/
queen-lost-diamonds. You can also peek behind the curtain of its making on Instagram and perhaps catch a clue to the mystery: @therealtravelalchemist
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