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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    Vertaling naar Nederlands was matig

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    Tres bonne activité pour découvrir Corfou. La seule chose est que nous n’avions pas beaucoup de réseau internet. Mais très bonne activité.

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    Es hat Spaß gemacht! Alles war sehr gut erklärt und man konnte die Rätsel gut lösen! Obwohl versprochen wurde, dass wenn man sich an die Route hält, unnötige Wege vermieden werden, dass war nicht ganz so, man hätte die Route schneller erledigen können! Aber im großen und ganzen eine sehr informative Rally! Macht vorallem mit Kindern Spaß!

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    Durch die Schnitzeljagd haben wir Ecken von München entdeckt, die wir sonst nicht gesehen hätten. War super und hat Spaß gemacht.

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    Leuke ervaring op niet doelloos rond te wandelen. Markthal had er ook mogen bij zitten (vlakbij kubuswoningen) met wat uitleg.

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    Permet une visite de Bordeaux et nous apprend plein de choses.

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    Une manière ludique d’avoir un aperçu de la ville et de son histoire.

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    Daniela– Germany –

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    Würde es immer wieder nutzen! Man ist total unabhängig, kann unterbrechen bzw. weitermachen wann man möchte. Die Routenlänge und zwischen den einzelnen Zielen ist sehr gut, nicht zu lang und nicht zu kurz. Empfehlenswert insgesamt 🙂

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    Goed én duidelijke beschrijving ook naar elke locatie. Afstanden echt prima te doen en ook de mogelijkheid om tussendoor even te stoppen

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    Die Rätsel:)

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    Sehr viel Interessantes. Teilweise etwas schwer zu lösen

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    Very helpful, friendly and knowledgeable guide, who showed us parts of the city we would not have discovered on our own. 2 hours was just the right length to see the highlights of Bilbao.

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    Très sympa à faire avec enfants et adultes. Nous avons apprécié le cheminement. Les explications sont de la bonne taille, assez longue mais assez courtes pour qu’on les lise.

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    Great facts and stories.

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    La première énigme Les énigmes 7 et 8 l’hôtel de ville et la place étant en travaux nous avons dû faire les énigmes à l’aide d’Internet

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    Tolle Tour – genau die richtige Länge. Rätsel waren abwechslungsreich.

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    Valerio– Italy –

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    Va molto bene per avere una prima idea del centro storico di Genova

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    We very much enjoyed our self guided escape audio tour. It’s such an entertaining way to walk through town and learning about the city. What we also enjoyed was that the tour took us outside popular tourist attractions and through other interesting more locally visited places. We will definitely do another self guided tour in another city again.

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    Jennifer– United States –

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    A good plan to take you through a walking tour of the city, seeing major sites. It was great that it was at your own pace, so you can stop and visit some of the sites. Our teens enjoyed it.

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    Interaktiv, spannend

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    Fernando– Netherlands –

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    Una forma diferente de conocer la ciudad.

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    Muy divertido y entretenido

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    Die Schnitzeljagd führt zu einigen Sehenswürdigkeiten im Zentrum vom Kopenhagen. Die Beschreibungen sind interessant, ersparen den Reiseführer und beinhalten Hinweise, was in unmittelbarer Nähe noch zu sehen ist. Dadurch wurde der Stadtrundgang kurzweilig (auch mit Teenager). Unbedingt mehr Zeit einplanen zum rumtrödeln und entdecken; insbesondere die Hinweise für die Aussichtspunkte auf Türmen haben sich gelohnt. Die Rätsel sind zum Teil wirklich rätselhaft, sorgen dadurch aber auch für gute Stimmung.

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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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