Stay on the Line
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A free psychological thriller you play around your own home: lock down every device in your house before it finishes learning you, with after-hours support on the line until first light.
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Hunts in Nambour
Sector // Nambour, Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast's old sugar town.
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Not out and about today? These play on your phone, on the couch. Everything you can play at home.
The Keeper's Log
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Caloundra, late 1942. The lighthouse keeper rings you in the night: something in his own log is wrong, and he needs a stranger's eyes. Five puzzles, three phone calls, one night. Free, and it plays anywhere.
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Noosa
The Missing Surfboard
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5.10am in Noosa, and the middle hook in the surf shed is empty. The paddle-out is at 6.30. Pops wrote everything down: follow sixty years of Noosa surf to find his board in time.
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Caloundra
The Wreck at Dicky Beach
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A tin box in a beachcomber's shed at Dicky Beach, and a letter from a ship's boy who was aboard the SS Dicky when the storm drove her ashore in 1893. Open it, and follow him through the gale.
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Glass House Mountains
The Glass House File
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A $2 shoebox from a garage sale: tapes, logbooks and a badge from the Night Owls Sky Watch Club, and four strange lights logged on one winter night in 1974. You are the club's new duty officer.
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Summer of '86
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January 1986, the last day of the summer holidays. Robbie, twelve, has vanished from the bike rack outside the milk bar, and you have until the streetlights come on to find him.
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Town hunts, coming 2027
Outdoor escape games and story trails in real Sunshine Coast streets. Open a case file to get an email the day it opens.
Nambour
The Nambour Art Trail
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Spend a day as a muralist's apprentice. Learn the trade at every artwork in town, then design a wall of your own.
Case file →Things to do in Nambour
Nambour began as a settlement called Petrie's Creek. In 1870 William Samwell took up a cattle run there that he called Nambour, from an Aboriginal word for the red-flowering tea-tree. The railway arrived in 1891 and the town became the district's headquarters. Nambour was built on sugar: the Moreton Central Sugar Mill crushed its first cane in 1897 and its last on 3 December 2003.
The cane trains in the main street
To bring cane in from the farms, the mill laid a narrow tramway, just two feet between the rails. Its tracks ran down the middle of the town's streets, and until the mill closed, trains of cane bins rolled through the town centre to the mill gate on Mill Street. The line along Mill, Currie and Howard Streets was entered on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2005, which calls a cane tramway through the middle of a town very uncommon. The rails are still in the road.
Things to do
- Walk the cane tramway: spot the heritage rails set into Mill, Currie and Howard Streets.
- Nambour and District Historical Museum, 18 Mitchell Street: the sugar story and old locomotives. Small entry fee; open Wednesday to Saturday.
- The public art trail: a loop of about 3 km of street art through the town centre.
- Robinson Falls in Cilento Park: a small waterfall about 3 km from the town centre, with a play fort and barbecues.
- Dulong Lookout: wide views over the coast from the range above town.
- Nambour Town Square markets, Thursdays 8am to 2pm.
- The Big Pineapple at Woombye, just south: the 16-metre landmark from 1971, heritage listed in 2009, with paid rides and a zoo on site.
Getting there
About 100 km north of Brisbane, roughly 90 minutes by car, or by train to Nambour station on the Sunshine Coast line. About 15 minutes inland from Maroochydore.
Did you know?
- The cane trams carried people too. The mill put seats in cane wagons and ran passengers from Nambour to the beach at Coolum until 1935.
- When Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited the Big Pineapple in 1983, more than 10,000 people turned up to see them.
Check opening times and conditions before you go.