©Escape Game Hotel De La Gare De Lumbres|Tourisme en Pays de Saint-Omer

Try out the escape games in Saint-Omer

Rob a hotel safe, foil the spells of the witch Marie Groët, discover the secrets of a naturalist collector and even bring an escape-game to your home! There’s only one place where you can try out these games and puzzles: in Saint-Omer and the Audomarois region!

Experiences to enjoy

At Saint-Omer, we quickly realised that if we wanted to make you want to discover our heritage and history, we also had to surprise you. We’re the first tourist office in France to have created a tourist escape game. Escape-game? It’s all about escaping as a team from a confined space in a given time by solving riddles, often difficult ones, without forgetting to have fun! And in the Audomarois region, there are so many legends and surprising places that we’ve had a lot of fun inventing mysterious, exciting and slightly frightening worlds for you!

©Escape Game Le Secret de Dupuis Saint-Omer|Tourisme en Pays de Saint-Omer

Riddles between the real and the imaginary

You’re standing in front of 9, rue Henri Dupuis, in the heart of Saint-Omer. The door opens to reveal Vissery, a character recognisable by his top hat with a lock and his time bag. This eccentric, original and mysterious inhabitant of Saint-Omer has quite simply come back from the past. He is a member of the Cercle des Savanturiers. And you’re a scientist and an adventurer, aren’t you? With him, you’ll plunge straight into “Les Énigmes de Vissery”, two escape games inspired by the typical world of the Saint-Omer region … Here, you’ll have to sort out the real from the fake, confront a marsh witch and a ghost and solve their riddles to get out of the situation.

À la découverte ... Ouverture d'un Escape Game dans le Musée Dupuis à Saint Omer

In a former museum

“The secrets of Henri Dupuis? You’re in the former home of Henri Dupuis (1819-1889), a collector from Auvergne. In the early 20th century, he bequeathed his possessions to the town to be turned into a museum. Imagine hundreds of stuffed birds, shells and other curiosity cabinet specimens preciously preserved in this museum, which has been closed to the public since 2004. The ground floor has been transformed into an escape-games area, while the collections upstairs are still being patiently inventoried and restored by the Saint-Omer museum teams. Two escape games will take you on a journey of discovery not only of this extraordinary place, but also of the legendary and cultural marshlands of the Audomar region, with the riddle “Bienvenue chez Marie Groët” (Welcome to Marie Groët’s house).

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Robbery in Lumbroise

A different atmosphere at the Hôtel de la Gare in Lumbres. If you like the atmosphere of Agatha Christie novels, you’re in for a treat: old-fashioned decor, velvet curtains, piano and antiques. Not to mention an innkeeper who unwittingly entrusts you with a strange mission: to find the treasure hidden in the hotel’s safes. Once again, here you are immersed in the local history and landscape, a real source of inspiration for the Saint-Omer Tourist Office. The old railway line, the industrial history: during the game, you’ll learn plenty about Lumbres and the surrounding area.

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