Walking Tour with Challenges: A City Walk You Actually Play

On a guided tour, one person talks and the group listens. On a walking tour with challenges, the group works: you read the clue, look around, and decide together what the answer is. The route still passes the places worth seeing, but you arrive at them by solving something.

• Your own timing. Start when you like, break when you like, finish when you are ready.
• Your own group. No strangers, no waiting for the slowest stranger.
• Everyone takes part. Children and adults both have something to do at every stop.

• Observation: count the columns, find the year above the door, name the figure on the fountain.
• Puzzles: combine two pieces of information to work out where to go next.
• Photo and action tasks: quick, playful, and the thing your group will send around afterwards.
• Bonus questions: optional points for teams that want to compete.

1. Choose a city and a concept, then pick your date and starting time.
2. Meet at the starting point and open the game on one phone per team.
3. Walk the route, solving a challenge at each stop.
4. Take a hint whenever you need one, so no team gets stuck.
5. Finish at the end point and compare scores.

Distance, playing time and available languages differ per city and concept. Check the destination page in the overview of cities where you can play a City Game before you book.

If you want to see the city itself, an exploration route works best. The Secrets of exploration game combines the main sights with the streets most visitors miss.

If your group would rather follow a plot than a map, a narrative route such as The Syndicate city escape game gives the walk a case to solve.

Several teams can walk the same route at the same time and compare results at the end, which makes this an easy team activity. Group bookings are handled on the page for companies and groups.

• Wear shoes for cobblestones, stairs and slopes; historic centres are uneven and differ per city.
• Bring one charged phone per team, with data, and a power bank for longer routes.
• Stop walking before you read the phone, and step out of traffic first.
• Plan a coffee or lunch stop halfway; the route waits for you.
• Start earlier in the day for quieter streets and better photographs.

It is a self-guided city walk in which each stop contains a task: a clue, a question, a puzzle or a photo challenge that your team solves before moving on.

No. The route, the challenges and the hints are all in the game on your phone.

Most routes take a couple of hours at a comfortable pace, including breaks. Exact distances are listed per city.

Yes. Mixed teams of adults and children work best, and the city page tells you the walking distance in advance.

Every challenge has hints, so your team can always continue the route.

A walking tour with challenges gives a familiar city the shape of a game: same streets, more attention, better stories at the end. Choose the concept that suits your group and the city you want to explore.