Berlin scavenger hunt
Topped by its majestic chariot statue, the neoclassical Brandenburg Gate stands as Berlin's most iconic landmark and a powerful symbol of unity.
The Neptune Fountain is a breathtaking Neo-Baroque masterpiece featuring the Roman sea god surrounded by four figures representing the major rivers of historical Prussia.
St. Mary's Church is a historic Gothic landmark located near Alexanderplatz, famously housing the medieval "Dance of Death" fresco within its ancient brick walls.
Framed by the spectacular French and German Cathedrals alongside the Konzerthaus, the majestic Gendarmenmarkt is widely celebrated as one of Europe's most beautiful and harmonious public squares.
The Berlin Cathedral is a magnificent 19th-century Neo-Renaissance landmark on Museum Island, distinguished by its massive turquoise dome and its history as the majestic court church of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Berlin scavenger hunt
Topped by its majestic chariot statue, the neoclassical Brandenburg Gate stands as Berlin's most iconic landmark and a powerful symbol of unity.
The Neptune Fountain is a breathtaking Neo-Baroque masterpiece featuring the Roman sea god surrounded by four figures representing the major rivers of historical Prussia.
St. Mary's Church is a historic Gothic landmark located near Alexanderplatz, famously housing the medieval "Dance of Death" fresco within its ancient brick walls.
Framed by the spectacular French and German Cathedrals alongside the Konzerthaus, the majestic Gendarmenmarkt is widely celebrated as one of Europe's most beautiful and harmonious public squares.
The Berlin Cathedral is a magnificent 19th-century Neo-Renaissance landmark on Museum Island, distinguished by its massive turquoise dome and its history as the majestic court church of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Berlin Scavenger Hunt and Self-Guided Tour

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What is the Berlin scavenger hunt?

The Berlin scavenger hunt is a self-guided city game you play on your phone: you walk through historic Berlin-Mitte, solve a riddle at each of 10 landmarks and unlock the stories behind them. It takes about 3 hours, with roughly 65 minutes of actual walking over 5.1 km, and you start whenever you like.

Highlights include Alexanderplatz, the Neptune Fountain, Berlin Cathedral, the Altes Museum on Museum Island, Gendarmenmarkt, the Goethe Monument in the Tiergarten, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. Berlin's centre is flat and its sights follow one another along the Spree and Unter den Linden, so seven centuries of history are easy to explore on foot.

  • Durationabout 3 hours
  • Walkingabout 65 min · 5.1 km
  • Stops10
  • LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch

How the hunt runs from Alexanderplatz to the Reichstag

One riddle per square

Each of the 10 stops sets a single riddle, and what you need to answer it is on the square itself: a clock face, an inscription, a group of figures on a bridge. The game rewards noticing things, not knowing them.

History once the lock opens

With the answer come the stories: the Dance of Death painted in St Mary's tower hall around 1484, a plague year, the Quadriga that Napoleon carted off to Paris in 1806 and that came back in 1814, the regiment of Gens d'armes whose stables gave Gendarmenmarkt its name. The same text is also spoken, so your eyes can stay on the building.

Flat going, 5.1 km

Google Maps takes you from stop to stop across 65 minutes of walking, east to west along the Spree and Unter den Linden. Mitte is flat the whole way, and no stretch between two stops is long enough to be a march.

Start when you want

There is no departure, so there is nothing to be late for. Break for coffee on Gendarmenmarkt, finish the last stops after dinner or on another day, and reshuffle the order in the app if you are coming in from the west.

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How it works

  1. Book online Choose the number of players. Your booking reference arrives by email straight away.
  2. Get the app Download the World City Trail app from the App Store or Google Play and enter your booking reference.
  3. Play when you like Start whenever you are ready, walk at your own pace and pause any time. No guide, no fixed schedule.

Who the Berlin hunt works for

A first day in Mitte

Alexanderplatz, Museum Island, Gendarmenmarkt, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag sit on one 5.1 km line, which saves a day of working out which U-Bahn goes where. You end up with the centre in a single order you can remember.

Kids on the hunt

There is a lot to hunt for: the World Clock on Alexanderplatz, the four rivers around Neptune in his fountain, the eighteen columns across the front of the Altes Museum, and the four horses of the Quadriga above the Brandenburg Gate, with one adult playing alongside them.

A team event in the open

Up to 5 players per team, each with the game on their own phone, lets a department compete without a single meeting room. No venue, no catering slot, no fixed hour: the stops are public squares and pavements from beginning to end.

Good to know

  • Bring a charged smartphone with mobile data; a power bank helps.
  • No entry tickets needed: everything happens outside the buildings. Going inside is optional and paid separately.
  • Family friendly; children must be accompanied by an adult.
  • Not suitable for wheelchair users and difficult with strollers.
  • Teams of up to 5 work best; bigger groups split into several teams, one ticket per player.
  • Every purchase helps support stray cats and dogs in Greece.

The route: Alexanderplatz, Museum Island, Gendarmenmarkt, Brandenburg Gate

10 stops · about 65 min walking · start: Alexanderplatz · finish: Reichstag Building

The hunt starts at Alexanderplatz and passes St Mary's Church and the Neptune Fountain before crossing the Spree to the Palace Bridge and Berlin Cathedral. Next door on the Lustgarten stands the Altes Museum, then you head south to Gendarmenmarkt and west to the Goethe Monument in the Tiergarten and the Brandenburg Gate, finishing at the Reichstag Building. Everything the riddles ask about is outdoors, on façades, columns and monuments, so the hunt comes without a single entry ticket, and the app hands you the stops in any order you want, with the first one wherever your hotel happens to be.

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  1. Alexanderplatz

    1AlexanderplatzStart

    The square is named after Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who visited Berlin in 1805, and it gave its title to Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Its present look comes from the East German redesign of the 1960s, which added the World Clock in 1969 and the Television Tower nearby.

  2. St Mary's Church (Marienkirche)

    2St Mary's Church (Marienkirche)

    St Mary's was first mentioned in 1292 and is the oldest parish church in Berlin still used for worship. In its tower hall is a Dance of Death mural more than 22 metres long, painted around 1484, the year of a plague, and the pulpit was made by Andreas Schlüter in 1703.

  3. Neptune Fountain

    3Neptune Fountain

    Reinhold Begas created this fountain in 1891: the sea god Neptune sits in the middle, surrounded by four women who stand for the rivers Rhine, Elbe, Oder and Vistula. It first stood on Schlossplatz in front of the Berlin Palace and was moved here, between St Mary's Church and the Red Town Hall, in 1969.

  4. Palace Bridge (Schlossbrücke)

    4Palace Bridge (Schlossbrücke)

    Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed this bridge, built in 1821–1824, to link Unter den Linden with the royal palace. Its eight marble groups, added between 1847 and 1857, show Nike and Athena guiding young warriors, and in GDR times it was renamed Marx-Engels-Brücke until 1991.

  5. Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)

    5Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)

    Emperor Wilhelm II had the old cathedral pulled down in 1893, and Julius Raschdorff's new Protestant cathedral with its great dome was consecrated in 1905. Beneath it lies the Hohenzollern crypt with dozens of coffins of the Prussian royal family, and 270 steps lead up to the walkway around the dome.

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  6. Altes Museum

    6Altes Museum

    Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Old Museum, completed in 1830, was the first museum on Museum Island and one of the first purpose-built museum buildings in Europe. Its front of 18 Ionic columns faces the Lustgarten, and the huge granite bowl at the foot of the steps was commissioned by King Frederick William III in 1826.

  7. Gendarmenmarkt

    7Gendarmenmarkt

    The square takes its name from the Gens d'armes, a Prussian cuirassier regiment that kept its stables here until 1773. It is framed by the French and the German Church, both given matching domed towers by Carl von Gontard in 1785, with Schinkel's Konzerthaus of 1821 between them.

  8. Goethe Monument

    8Goethe Monument

    This marble monument by the sculptor Fritz Schaper was unveiled in 1880 in the Tiergarten, a short walk from the Brandenburg Gate. Goethe stands on a tall pedestal, and around its base sit three allegorical figures representing lyric poetry, drama and science.

  9. Brandenburg Gate

    9Brandenburg Gate

    Carl Gotthard Langhans built the gate in 1788–1791 for King Frederick William II, modelling it on the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens. Napoleon carried Johann Gottfried Schadow's Quadriga off to Paris in 1806, it returned in 1814, and during the division of Berlin the gate stood right by the Wall.

  10. Reichstag Building

    10Reichstag BuildingFinish

    Paul Wallot's parliament building was completed in 1894, and the inscription Dem deutschen Volke, To the German People, was added in 1916. Gutted by fire in 1933 and badly damaged in 1945, it was rebuilt by Norman Foster with a glass dome, and the Bundestag has met here since 1999.

370 reviews for Berlin Scavenger Hunt and Self-Guided Tour

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    Lilian– Germany –

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    Abwechslungsreich, gute Route, nette Rätsel Aber: für Schüler*innen z.T. zu anspruchsvoll

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    Activité très sympa pour découvrir Syracuse en famille de façon ludique.

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    Leuke manier om de stad voor een klein deel te zien

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    What a fantastic way to explore the city! I loved the way that you could dip in and out, and the facts were so interesting. Gave me lots of inspiration for places to visit during my stay too.

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    App gebruikt als routeplanner en om achtergrondinfo te lezen.

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    Claire Dos– France –

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    Il n emanque qu un passage dans les rue piétonnes pour que le tour soit complet.

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    Claude– France –

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    Pour une première utilisation , il faut s’adapter

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    Lennard– Germany –

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    Gute Rätseltour. Leider sind die Rätsel in den unterschiedlichen Städten immer sehr ähnlich. Aber als erstmalige Aktivität eine super Sache!

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    Toller Einblick in die Stadt mit dieser Schnitzeljagd. Die Rätsel machen es für Kinder und Erwachsene abwechslungsreich. Empfehlenswert.

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    Es war super interessant

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    Ging heel gemakkelijk. App op telefoon downloaden en wandelen maar. Tussendoor even bij de camper gaan lunchen en daarna de tour weer opgepakt. We hadden netjes voor 2 personen geboekt, zodat we allebei op onze eigen telefoon de informatie konden lezen. Leuke manier om het gezellige Metz beter te leren kennen.

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    Tolle Idee, dass man eine Stadt und ihre Winkel auf diese Weise entdecken kann. Mit vielen zusätzlichen Hintergrundinformationen. Empfehlenswert!

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    Leuk!!

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    Stefanie– Germany –

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    Schöne, abwechslungsreiche Tour durch Kos City. Ideal für Familien mit Kindern, unsere sind 7 und 12 Jahre alt. Alles wurde gut gefunden, anschaulich erklärt und auch die Rätsel waren lösbar.

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    Eine rolle.Möglichkeit Venedig zu erkunden Fakten zu lernen und Rätsel zu lösen. Eine absolute 10/10

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    Algo complicado para niños

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    Très bonne activité à faire pour découvrir les monuments de Tarragona. Je recommande le départ au niveau du parking avec le monuments des castells comme recommandé par l’application. On a apprécié de pouvoir prendre notre temps et faire à notre rythme pour profiter de l’environnement de chaque arrêt. Et on avait calculé pour finir avec la démonstration des castells au pied de la cathédrale. Un vrai plaisir pour la fin de la chasse au trésor. N’hésitez pas à regarder les jours et horaires des démonstrations pour finir en beauté. Seule remarque: une version sonore des informations serait intéressante.

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    Kom rundt i byen og hørte om Warszawa historie

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    Die Schnitzeljagd hat Spaß gemacht 🙂 Die Punkte waren gut zu finden und durch die Fragen/Aufgaben, hat man sich viele Dinge und Details noch genauer angeschaut. Die Aufgabenstellungen waren nur nicht immer ganz eindeutig was etwas schade war . Aber ansonsten alles gut 🙂

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    Das „Rätsellösen“ war witzig und hat den Stadtrundgang abwechslungsreich gestaltet. Wir hatten vor Jahren schon mal eine Stadtführung gemacht und haben mit der Schnitzeljagd trotzdem noch einiges andere erfahren. Die Infos (gut zu lesen, nicht zu umfangreich) und die Aufgaben wechseln sich ab. Über die App ist die Tour sehr flexibel handhabbar, nach eigenem Tempo, man kann Pausen machen, wie man möchte und nach Belieben die Schnitzeljagd fortführen.

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    De vragen hadden een tandje moeilijker gemogen. Maar dit is heel leuk om als date te doen.

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    Ich finde 7 Euro pro Person eigentlich einen stolzen Preis dafür, dass man zusätzlich eine App downloaden landen und die Infos lesen muss. Man kann auch nur für eine Person bezahlen und zu zweit losziehen. Die Informationen sind jedoch interessant und ich habe einiges über Lübeck gelernt. Man muss diese Art der Stadterkundung mögen und neugierig sein.

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    The questions where not too easy nor too hard. Overall very nice game. We had a lot of fun

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    Flexibilität- Infos- individuell im eigenen Tempo!

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    Einige Orte entdeckt, die man so vielleicht gar nicht so wahrgenommen hätte!

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    Super schön flexibel. Viele machbare Rätsel.

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Frequently asked questions

How much of the day does the Berlin scavenger hunt take?

Count on roughly 3 hours. Walking makes up 65 minutes of it, the route runs 5.1 km and takes in 10 stops, and the rest belongs to the riddles and to standing still. The hunt can be interrupted at any stop and taken up again later.

Which square starts it and which one ends it?

Alexanderplatz starts it, under the World Clock, and the Reichstag Building ends it. If the east of Mitte is the wrong corner for you, the app opens the hunt at a stop closer to your hotel and the route runs the other way.

Does a guide come along, and is a time booked?

No guide and no booked hour. Booking brings a reference to your inbox, and it opens the hunt in the World City Trail app whenever you are ready to walk. One ticket per person, and each phone runs the game on its own.

Is admission charged at any of the stops?

Not at any of them. The riddles are solved outside, from squares, façades and monuments, so the hunt itself needs no ticket. Going up into the Reichstag dome, down into the Hohenzollern crypt beneath Berlin Cathedral, inside the Altes Museum or to a concert in Schinkel's Konzerthaus is each arranged separately.

Are children happy on this one?

Children generally do well here, provided one adult is playing in the same team. The clues are objects to find, and there is a World Clock to read, a Neptune with four river goddesses to examine and a quadriga to count the horses of. The route does not work in a wheelchair and asks a lot of anyone pushing a buggy.

Which languages is the game available in?

Six are built in, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, and you switch between them in the World City Trail app.

Can a larger group or a company play it?

Yes. Everyone needs a ticket, and no team runs with more than five players. A sizeable company group becomes four or five teams on the same stops and reassembles in front of the Reichstag, with no room booking and no shared starting minute in the way.

What should each team carry?

Berlin asks for little: a phone that is charged and online, a power bank behind it and shoes able to take 5.1 km of flat pavement. Berlin's squares are wide and offer no cover, so a rain jacket earns its place in the bag, and earphones let the narration do the reading.

The first riddle stands on Alexanderplatz

Pay for as many tickets as there are players and the reference arrives by email. From there the date is yours: walk out under the World Clock, open the first riddle and let Berlin unfold westwards towards the Reichstag.

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