Prague scavenger hunt
The Old Town Square is the historic heart of Prague, dominated by the fairy-tale spires of the Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn.
Spanning the Vltava River with its magnificent Gothic arches and lined with iconic statues of saints, the historic Charles Bridge stands as Prague's most legendary landmark, beautifully connecting the Old Town with Lesser Town.
Renowned as a masterpiece of High Baroque architecture, the breathtaking St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana) dominates the Lesser Town skyline with its monumental green dome, soaring belfry, and exceptionally ornate interior frescoes.
Steeped in medieval romance and lined with historic cobblestone streets, the enchanting Old Town serves as Prague's timeless heart, mesmerizing visitors with its iconic Astronomical Clock and magnificent Gothic architecture.
Standing proudly at Křižovnické Square near the entrance to Charles Bridge, the striking Charles IV Statue honors the beloved Holy Roman Emperor who shaped the golden age of Prague.
Prague scavenger hunt
The Old Town Square is the historic heart of Prague, dominated by the fairy-tale spires of the Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn.
Spanning the Vltava River with its magnificent Gothic arches and lined with iconic statues of saints, the historic Charles Bridge stands as Prague's most legendary landmark, beautifully connecting the Old Town with Lesser Town.
Renowned as a masterpiece of High Baroque architecture, the breathtaking St. Nicholas Church (Malá Strana) dominates the Lesser Town skyline with its monumental green dome, soaring belfry, and exceptionally ornate interior frescoes.
Steeped in medieval romance and lined with historic cobblestone streets, the enchanting Old Town serves as Prague's timeless heart, mesmerizing visitors with its iconic Astronomical Clock and magnificent Gothic architecture.
Standing proudly at Křižovnické Square near the entrance to Charles Bridge, the striking Charles IV Statue honors the beloved Holy Roman Emperor who shaped the golden age of Prague.

Prague Scavenger Hunt and Self-Guided Tour

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Your own guide to Prague on your phone: hand-picked places, each with why to go, what to order and a practical tip.

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What is the Prague scavenger hunt?

The Prague scavenger hunt is a self-guided city game you play on your phone: you walk from landmark to landmark, solve a riddle at each one by looking closely at what is in front of you, and unlock the stories and legends behind it. It takes about 2 hours, with around 53 minutes of actual walking over 4.6 km with 10 stops, and you start whenever you like.

Highlights include the Municipal House, the Týn Church and the Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square, the Spanish Synagogue, Charles Bridge and St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle. The route links the Old Town with Malá Strana across the Vltava, and the climb to the castle gives you views over the rooftops of the city.

  • Durationabout 2 hours
  • Walkingabout 53 min · 4.6 km
  • Stops10
  • LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech

How the hunt plays from the New Town up to the castle

One riddle, one landmark

Every one of the 10 stops holds a riddle whose answer is visible from where you stand: a bell, a tower, a figure in a window, a date carved into a plinth. No background in Czech history is expected of anybody.

Legends behind the answer

Once solved, the stop tells its stories: the clockmaker Hanuš, blinded according to legend so that he could never build a second astronomical clock, the gilded Hussite chalice melted down in 1626 for a halo on the Týn Church, Tycho Brahe lying in the same church. A voice in the app can take over the reading at any stop.

Old Town, river, castle hill

Google Maps carries you over 4.6 km with 53 minutes of walking, from Henry's Tower through the Old Town, across Charles Bridge into Malá Strana and up to Prague Castle. Only that last stretch climbs, and the view back over the rooftops pays for it.

No clock on the game

The hunt pauses as long as you want it to. Stop for a beer on the way up, come back to the last stops in the evening or the next morning, and let the app put the stops in the order your day needs.

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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 Prague hunt is made for

A first visit to Prague

The Old Town Square, the Jewish Town, Charles Bridge and the castle arrive in a sensible order instead of as a scramble between crowds. In 2 hours you have the shape of the city and know which bridge tower belongs to which century.

A team with children in it

The clock puts on its procession of Apostles every hour, Charles Bridge carries thirty statues to count, and the first stone is said to have been laid at 5:31 on 9 July 1357 because the figures read the same backwards. An adult has to be in the team.

Colleagues on a day out

Five players to a team, each with the riddle on their own phone, lets a department set off in waves and compare answers in front of St Vitus Cathedral. Beyond the tickets nothing needs reserving, since all ten riddles stand in open streets and squares.

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: Henry's Tower, Old Town Square, Charles Bridge, Prague Castle

10 stops · about 53 min walking · start: Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž) · finish: St Vitus Cathedral

The hunt starts at Henry's Tower in the New Town and heads past the Municipal House into the Old Town, to the Týn Church, the Spanish Synagogue, St Nicholas Church and the Astronomical Clock. At the Charles IV Monument you cross Charles Bridge into Malá Strana, pass the Holy Trinity Column and climb up to Prague Castle to finish at St Vitus Cathedral. All ten riddles are read off the outside of these buildings, so the hunt costs nothing in entry tickets, and the app will set a different first stop and a different order for anyone sleeping in Malá Strana rather than the New Town.

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  1. Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž)

    1Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž)Start

    Henry's Tower is the free-standing belfry of the Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta in Prague's New Town, about 66 metres tall. The stone tower was built in the late 16th century and got its neo-Gothic look in a rebuilding of 1876–1880, and its oldest surviving bell, Maria, was cast in 1518.

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  2. Municipal House (Obecní dům)

    2Municipal House (Obecní dům)

    The Municipal House was built from 1905 and opened in 1912 to designs by Osvald Polívka and Antonín Balšánek, on the site of a medieval royal palace next to the Powder Gate. Above the entrance is Karel Špillar's mosaic Homage to Prague, and in 1918 the building saw the declaration of Czechoslovak independence.

  3. Church of Our Lady before Týn

    3Church of Our Lady before Týn

    The Gothic Týn Church rises behind the houses of Old Town Square, with two towers about 80 metres high; the south tower was finished in 1511. The astronomer Tycho Brahe is buried inside, and the golden Hussite chalice that once crowned the gable was melted down in 1626 for the halo of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

  4. Spanish Synagogue

    4Spanish Synagogue

    The Spanish Synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style, on the site of what was probably the oldest synagogue in Prague's Jewish Town. Today it is part of the Jewish Museum in Prague, and beside it stands Jaroslav Róna's modern statue of Franz Kafka.

  5. St Nicholas Church (Old Town)

    5St Nicholas Church (Old Town)

    This Baroque church on Old Town Square was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer for the Benedictines and built in 1732–1737. Its white façade with statues by Antonín Braun only became visible from the square after a house in front of it was demolished in 1902, and today it belongs to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.

  6. Astronomical Clock

    6Astronomical Clock

    The astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall dates from 1410 and was made by the clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and the astronomer Jan Šindel. Every hour figures of the Apostles appear in the windows above the dials, and according to legend the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded so that he could never build another one.

  7. Charles IV Monument

    7Charles IV Monument

    This statue of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, stands on Křižovnické náměstí at the Old Town end of Charles Bridge. The Dresden sculptor Ernst Julius Hähnel made it, and it was unveiled in 1848 for the 500th anniversary of Charles University, which Charles founded in 1348.

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  8. Charles Bridge

    8Charles Bridge

    Charles IV had the stone bridge begun in 1357 to designs by Peter Parler, and according to tradition the first stone was laid at 5:31 on 9 July 1357, so that the date and time read the same backwards. The bridge is about 516 metres long and lined with 30 statues and sculpture groups, among them Saint John of Nepomuk.

  9. Holy Trinity Column

    9Holy Trinity Column

    This Baroque plague column on Malá Strana Square was completed in 1715 to mark the end of the plague epidemic that struck Prague in 1713. It was designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi, with sculptures by Jan Oldřich Mayer and Ferdinand Geiger.

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  10. St Vitus Cathedral

    10St Vitus CathedralFinish

    Work on the Gothic cathedral inside Prague Castle began in 1344 under Matthias of Arras, Peter Parler took over after his death, and the building was only completed in 1929. It holds the relics of Saint Wenceslas and the tombs of many Bohemian kings, and the Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha designed one of its stained-glass windows.

422 reviews for Prague Scavenger Hunt and Self-Guided Tour

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    Fun

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    Caroline– France –

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    Manière ludique de découvrir la ville. Les énigmes sont intéressantes et abordables pour des enfants de 8 ans. Mais même les grands se sont prêtés au jeu. Des anecdotes et des éléments historiques ponctuent la visite. Nous recommandons donc cette activité.

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    Really good activity and will highly recommend. Excellent and creative way to view the city.

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    uns hat die Schnitzeljagd sehr viel Spaß gemacht. ein kleiner Preis wäre aber toll gewesen.

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    Great, though there were typos, lol. The info was generally great. I wish the Cloister and ancient pharmacy was included…And the directions weren’t as good as google maps

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    Overall a good tour

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    Increíble, recomendada 10/10

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    We had a really good time – solving puzzles & learning about Chania! I’d like to know how the results were scored.

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    Fantastic & such fun… going from bridge to piazza to church and figuring out the riddles from the landmarks! Great idea & way to see the city. Thank you

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    Very nice!

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    il manquait la fontaine de Trevi

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    Wir haben die Tour im Rahmen eines Betriebsausflugs unternommen. Die Tour hat wirklich Spaß gemacht, lediglich eine Aufgabe war für uns leider nicht lösbar. Wir haben das auch bis zum nächsten Tag noch nicht verstanden. Aber es hat trotzdem sehr viel Spaß gemacht und es wurde das erreicht, was wir wollten. Das Team musste miteinander kommunizieren und jeder hatte auch begeistert mitgemacht. Auch die Informationen rundum Frankfurt und die jeweilige Sehenswürdigkeit waren sehr informativ. Ich würde eine solche Tour jederzeit wieder unternehmen.

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    Not enough riddles and questions to make it interactive but overall very good. Thank you!

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    Caroline– France –

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    Énigmes assez simples. Il manque les consignes de chaque énigme.

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    The scavenger hunt took us to alot of the main sites in Milan which was great. It also had facts about each location. Some of the clues felt too easy so my children lost interest after a while. It’s a good experience but more for being a cheap tour of Milan than a scavenger hunt

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    El recorrido es bueno pero falta poner pistas más interesantes. Me pareció que las preguntas son un tanto infantiles , pero la idea es buena. Gracias

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    Ludique et permet de tout voir

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    genial dass man die Highlights zu Gesicht bekommt und etwas Historie dazu. Die Aufgaben waren etwas zu einfach.

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    bien détaillé

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    We found this little app to be a fun way to get a quick taste of Vienna. It is a lot of walking but you can go at your own pace. Good tidbits of information along the way. The riddles were fun and made you look at things carefully that you would normally ignore. A great activity for the price!

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    It was great to do at own pace. For the cost a fantastic value which let you tap into some history and a feel for major events that shaped the city.

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    la visite en suivant les indices sont top. Bon moyen de découvrir la ville en s’amusant…

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    Très bien pour découvrir la ville

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    Good one ??

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Frequently asked questions

How long are we out for on the Prague scavenger hunt?

Around 2 hours covers the Prague scavenger hunt, of which 53 minutes is walking across a 4.6 km route with 10 stops. Riddles, photographs and the queue at a window take the rest, and the game can be stopped and resumed without losing anything.

Where is the first riddle, and where is the last one?

The first is at Henry's Tower, the free-standing belfry in the New Town, and the last stands inside the castle at St Vitus Cathedral. The app can promote any other stop to first place, which helps if you are coming up from Malá Strana.

Does somebody lead the hunt, or do we reserve a slot?

Neither one. A reference reaches you by email after booking; enter it in the World City Trail app and the first riddle waits for your signal. Count one ticket for each player, so nobody has to read over a shoulder.

Are there any admission charges along the way?

None. The riddles work off façades, towers, statues and the bridge itself, so the hunt needs no ticket anywhere. Climbing the Old Town Hall tower above the clock, going inside St Vitus Cathedral, up Henry's Tower, into the Spanish Synagogue or to a concert in the Municipal House is charged separately by each of them.

Is it worth doing with children?

Yes, as long as an adult plays too. Children watch for the Apostles in the clock windows, count the statues along Charles Bridge and spot the Kafka figure beside the Spanish Synagogue. Wheelchairs are ruled out, and the cobbles plus the climb to the castle make a pushchair hard work.

What languages does the app offer here?

The app speaks English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Czech, and you set yours before leaving Henry's Tower.

Would this work as a team event?

It would. Tickets go by head count and a team holds five players at most; a large company group splits into several teams on the same ten stops and gathers again in front of St Vitus Cathedral. Nothing is booked except the tickets, and no two teams have to start at the same minute.

What do we need with us?

One phone per team does it, charged and with mobile data, alongside a power bank and shoes able to take 4.6 km of cobbles plus the pull up to the castle. Add a layer against the wind on the bridge, and earphones if you would rather have the stories spoken.

The first riddle stands under Henry's Tower

Tickets are bought online, one for each player, and the code reaches you by email. You then decide the morning you walk up to Henry's Tower, open the first riddle and let the hunt pull you towards the castle.

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