Ludesco, Switzerland’s largest festival of games and fun experiences, will attract players from all over the country and neighboring France from Friday at 1:00 p.m. to Sunday at 8:00 p.m. in La Chaux-de-Fonds. More than 80 activities and 1,800 games will be offered.
For this 15th edition, the festival will extend across La Chaux-de-Fonds. The beating heart of the event, located around the Maison du Peuple, will be expanded with a building. This new place will welcome new fun products that have just appeared or those still at the prototype stage, indicated the organizers.
The festival will also spread throughout the city through dozens of new places. Visitors will be able to play a life-size game in a villa designed by Le Corbusier, take part in an investigation in a neo-Gothic temple or take part in a game script writing workshop in the pine-style apartment of a wealthy furniture manufacturer. watch boxes. A night of horror across the city is also on the program.
Record to beat
During the event, players will be able to test the unique investigation game that the RTS and the Swiss publishing house Helvetiq have created. The festival hopes that the cup and ball world record, with 12,417 moves in 24 hours, established in 2012 in Ludesco, will be surpassed.
Ludesco will also offer competitions in various fun disciplines, where players will be able to challenge each other on different themes: summoning creatures in Magic, football revisited with Klask or even the art of throwing wood in the early morning with Mölkky. During a simultaneous chess game, the public will be able to challenge French grandmaster Etienne Bacrot.
The organizers hope to welcome even more players than last year, when 7,500 players came. The festival welcomed more than 10,000 participants in 2019. Due to the pandemic, Ludesco was canceled in 2020 and was held in a reduced format and on unusual dates in 2021 and 2022.
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