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Les Arpenteurs

Les Arpenteurs

happners' hot spots

A few steps from place des Terreaux, Les Arpenteurs is a bar for local beer and a bar for games at the same time. Over two hundred titles, and a session costs nothing as long as you're drinking something. The house detail is the riddles: they're hidden in the frames on the walls, and solving one gets you a reward at the counter. But the thing worth planning your evening around is the programme — blind tests, general knowledge quizzes, card tournaments, Loup Garou nights. You sign up on the spot, often for a symbolic 1€, and you get placed in a group. Nobody chooses their team. Boards to share run at 14€, the toilets are gender-neutral, and the place is openly welcoming to LGBTQ+ people.

Experience

13 Rue Lanterne, 69001 Lyon

We lost the blind test together.

I signed up on my own at 7pm and got put with people I'd never met. We were hopeless on anything from the nineties. I saw two of them again at the next one.

Marion, 30