The Game edition of our free magazine is out now. The best part? The cover is a board game you can play anywhere you find the mag.
The Game Edition of CityMag is on streets now and full of amusement.
The best part? You can play the cover.
We knew if there was ever a time to go all-in on an interactive cover for our magazine, it was now.
So, our lead graphic designer Jayde Vandborg put on her illustrator cap and drew up a mini golf course scattered with Adelaide icons. Scroll down for the rules and virtual dice and give it a go. You can race a mate around our course or give it a go solo and learn fun facts about the city we love as you move around the board.
You can follow our rules, play it ala Snakes and Ladders, or make up your own rules. Our mags are always free and scattered around the city, so play it over a coffee or a pint at your local, or take it home and enjoy. While you’re at it, snap a pic and share it with us on Instagram so we can see where you’re playing.
To us, gaming is about interaction and, of course, friendly competition.
It’s the time spent with mates gathered around a coffee table, ripping open bags of chips and shuffling a deck. It’s that wicked Mario Kart streak that makes your little sister both fear and admire you. Whether you’re a menace at Uno or have over a thousand hours logged in Overwatch, we know there are so many ways to have a good game.
Whether you want to spend your Saturday adding to your Steam library, at the basketball (which we did, and snapped all the stylish players and spectators), or with a pint and a pool cue in hand, we’ve got something for you.
We scouted Adelaide’s best pool tables, challenged a professional chess player to a match (big mistake) and spoke to a developer about her new cyber-horror role-playing game.
Gaming can take many forms, which we’ve reflected in our round-up of favourites. We’ve also deep-dived gaming machines that made their way into Adelaide’s pubs and how they changed the music and hospitality scenes.
As always, we’ve got the newest places to eat and drink around Adelaide and your Christmas shopping list sorted with our considerate gift guide.
Find your free CityMag at restaurants, bars, cafes, libraries and uni campuses around the CBD and some surrounding suburbs. Or, pick up a copy from the stand outside our office on 165 Grenfell Street.
We’re game, are you?
Adelaide… But make it mini golf.
Here’s your dice:
Simply roll and move that many spaces forward, answer the question correctly to roll again. Careful of the pitfalls… Adelaide is full of them.
Hole #1
It’s time to tee-off!
BONUS: The player who last lunched at a sando deli rolls first.
Hole #2
DID YOU KNOW: The Popeye recently got a makeover by local artist Alice Lindstrom, inspired by the people, animals and plants of the River Torrens.
Hole #3
DARE: Name five local pubs in 10 seconds. If you passed, roll again, just to aggravate your opponent.
Hole #4
DID YOU KNOW? SA is one of very few places in the world where Coca-Cola is outsold by a local beverage. In our case, it’s good ol’ Farmers Union Iced Coffee. Cheers to that.
Hole #5
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DARE: Fill in the blank. Adelaide is nicknamed the “[blank] minute city”. If you got it, roll again.
Hole #6
DID YOU KNOW? Sir (John) Langdon Bonython (who owned the Tiser back then) pledged £50,000 in 1934 to build what is now Bonython Hall on the condition it stopped Pulteney Street from bisecting the campus grounds as envisioned by Col Light’s plans. Money has always trumped on North Terrace.
Hole #7
Footy fans, you’re in luck!
BONUS: If your favourite club won a match most recently, shoot straight through to hole #13. If your opponent’s did… that’s unfortunate. Stay put.
Hole #8
Like the many bikes lying at the bottom of the River Torrens… your ball fell in. Catch the Popeye all the way back to hole #2 to find it.
DID YOU KNOW? 80 per cent of the River Torrens lies in the Adelaide Hills.
Hole #9
When was the last time you spent the day at the Adelaide Zoo? Might be time for a visit.
DARE: If you can name the latest mammal arrival at Monarto Zoo, hitch a ride and thank the giraffes for dropping you off at hole #11.
Hole #10
DID YOU KNOW? SA was the first state to provide a 10-cent refund for recycling.
Hole #11
DID YOU KNOW? Oval Hotel is the only stadium-integrated hotel in the southern hemisphere.
Hole #12
Adelaide… The city of churches, they say.
DARE: Name the cathedral pictured here. If you got it, make your way through to hole #26.
Hole #13
DID YOU KNOW? Adelaide is Australia’s first, and only, UNESCO City of Music.
Hole #14
BONUS: If you can name Adelaide’s oldest fountain, this one in particular will shoot you straight up to hole #22.
Hole #15
DID YOU KNOW? South Australia was the first state in Australia to legislate women’s right to vote.
Hole #16
You’re safe for now. Play on.
Hole #17
DID YOU KNOW? Grey-headed flying foxes are actually considered native to South Australia.
DARE: If you can name the year that they set up camp in Adelaide, continue to hole #18. If not, fly all the way back to hole #5.
Hole #18
A game-changing shortcut lies ahead.
DARE: If you can name the cancelled Adelaide sweet treat that recently made a comeback, take the shortcut to hole #31.
Hole #19
Many have drunkenly attempted to scale the Malls Balls… and ultimately made it onto Just Adelaide Things. We hope you’ve got momentum.
DARE: If you can name the original title of the famous Instagram account, leap over to hole #25. If you can’t, that’s not very Adelaidean of you. Proceed to hole #20.
Hole #20
You’re safe. Hold steady.
Hole #21
DID YOU KNOW? The Mall’s Balls are officially titled The Spheres.
Hole #22
Watch out – the Rundle Mall pigs want to play.
DID YOU KNOW? Their names are Horatio, Oliver, Truffles and Augusta.
Hole #23
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DID YOU KNOW? Up to 10,000 tree martin birds roost in Leigh Street each summer, the largest roost of a species in Australia. The birds were causing such a mess the council had to clean streets three times a day and put nets on the trees to deter them in 2024.
Hole #24
DID YOU KNOW? The namesake of the iconic Miss Gladys Sym Choon boutique was a real person. Not only that, she was one of the first women in South Australia to set up a business.
Hole #25
DARE: Rap a verse about Adelaide and try not to cringe. We’ll go first…Adelaide City has a vibe so sweet. Coast on the left and the hills so steep. The festival state keeps it live all year, catch CityMag at the Cranker for a beer.
Hole #26
You’re safe for now. Play on.
Hole #27
DID YOU KNOW? A “double cut” roll is uniquely South Australian.
Hole #28
Any Guy Sebastian fans on the green?
DARE: If you can name this local legend’s first single, released in 2003, take another step to hole #29.
Hole #29
DID YOU KNOW? Forget churches, Adelaide is known as a city of pubs. At its peak there were 197 pubs in Adelaide.
Hole #30
UH OH. The never-ending construction of Adelaide CBD. You miss your next turn while you wait for an eternity…
Hole #31
DID YOU KNOW? South Australia was the first Australian state to decriminalise male homosexuality under Premier Don Dunstan in September 1975.
Hole #32
You’re safe. Hold steady.
Hole #33
UGH. That’s like, the tenth crane we’ve seen this morning. You get knocked back to hole #32.
Hole #34
DID YOU KNOW? An iconic unsolved mystery of Adelaide was recently debunked. The FJ Holden suspended from the University of Adelaide footbridge in 1971 has been claimed as a prank by a group of University students. Good on ’em.
Hole #35
DID YOU KNOW? The Palm House at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens is thought to be the only one of its kind still in existence, a painstakingly restored Victorian glasshouse imported from Germany in 1875.
Hole #36
YIKES! A gust of wind blew your ball across the way, back to hole #28. Don’t give up – there’s still a pint at the end of the tunnel!
Hole #37
You’re safe for now, and you’re almost there. Play on.
Hole #38
You made it! Time for a cheeky beer at the Cranker – where all good nights out end.
DID YOU KNOW? They’re currently serving their very own Save The Cranker brew. Enjoy it while you can before the pub shuts for two years for the construction of a student accommodation tower.
Answers
#5: “20-minute city”
#9: Elephant, named Burma.
#12: St Peters Cathedral
#14: Rundle Mall Fountain – cast in 1880.
#17: 2010.
#18: Polywaffle – now in bite form.
#19: ShitAdelaide.
#28: “Angels Brought Me Here”