Zakodowana Warszawa Outdoor city game in Warsaw for companies and groups
Decode Warsaw
A city game in the Old Town for companies and groups. Teams solve 20–30 riddles hidden in the details of the Old Town, collect the digits of the code and try to be the first to stop their clock.
The Old Town as a game board
Zakodowana Warszawa connects the offline world with the online one. The participants, split into teams, are the pawns, and the board is a small part of the Old Town that can easily be covered on foot. The game is played around Castle Square, the Royal Castle, Sigismund's Column and the townhouses of the Market Square, the part of Warsaw that was rebuilt after the war and inscribed on the UNESCO list.
Each team gets a paper map with the game area marked on it and a set of cards. The third element is an app on a website that acts as the referee. Nobody judges the answers by eye.
20–30 riddles a search engine won't solve
One side of the card has a photo that points you to a place, the other side has a riddle. A single game has between 20 and 30 of them. The answers are hidden in the details of the Old Town, so you have to get to the right spot in person and take a good look around.
The riddles are designed so that Google, Google Lens and Google Maps don't help. Anyone looking for hints on their phone only wastes time. Even a born-and-bred Varsovian doesn't have it easy, because the photos show small details people walk past every day without stopping. After the game, participants often say they didn't expect so many interesting details, and they are happy to show them to friends and family later.
How to win: dividing tasks, watching the clock and a bit of misleading your rivals
Every correct answer entered in the app gives the team one digit. Once the team has collected them all, it puts them together into a code and enters it to stop its clock. The team that does this first wins.
The app also shows your rivals' results. The ranking refreshes every 15 minutes and stops updating 30 minutes before the end, so nobody knows who is leading until the very last moment. On the route you are on your own and nobody gives you hints. The result depends on how the team divides the tasks, how it manages time and how well it can mislead the competition.
Packages, date and game language
The game is booked in packages. One package is a team of 3–4 people, so 20 participants need at least five. There is no limit on the number of teams.
We agree the day, time and meeting point together with you. At the start we explain the rules and launch the app. The whole game, including the introduction and the wrap-up, takes about three hours. At the finish we announce the results and reward the winners. A team that doesn't get the code also ends the game at the finish and learns its place.
We play all year round, and for autumn and winter we have a night version. We run the game in Polish and in English. It is booked by companies for team building, and also by private groups for hen parties, stag parties and birthdays.
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Questions before booking
No. The photos on the cards show details that even residents miss, and the riddles call for lateral thinking, not knowledge of the city. What counts is observation and teamwork.
About three hours: the introduction, the game itself and the announcement of results. The game time is fixed in advance, so it's easy to plan the rest of the day.
Yes. We play all year round, and for the colder, darker months we have prepared a night version of the game.
Yes, we run the game in Polish and in English.
One package is a team of 3–4 people. For 20 participants you need at least five packages, and there is no limit on the number of teams.
