Six to eight teams, one phone each, 60 to 120 minutes on foot. €5 per pupil, teachers free.
More than 3,000 classes and groups have played Questo together.
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We are a group of language students and we played the game with our teacher: a great and fun way to practise, and learn interesting stuff about our city that we didn't know.
Perfect with a group of A Level pupils. Loved it.
Quests for classes
A Boston field trip with Questo is mostly a day in the North End, the old Italian neighborhood around North Square, Hanover Street and the Old North Church, with further routes through Boston Common, Copley Square and the Fenway. For classes, the strongest picks are Historical Boston: The Record Breaker, which passes the Union Oyster House, the 54th Regiment Memorial and the Massachusetts State House; North End Boston: Mafia Mission, which visits the site of the Great Molasses Flood; and, for high school, Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in North End. Quests suit students from about 3rd grade through 12th grade.
147 min · 2.8 km · 11 stops
Starts at The Rose Kennedy Rose Garden
Italian immigration and community life: the Italian Cities Sign, St. Leonard's Church and All Saints Way
80 min · 3.8 km · 12 stops
Starts at Boston Public Library
The Civil War at the Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial
90 min · 2.1 km · 15 stops
Starts at At The George Robert Fountain on Unity St
The Italian North End: All Saints Way and its neighborhood streets
90 min · 2 km · 12 stops
Starts at 1 North Square
The Old North Church and the Clough House as colonial-era buildings
90 min · 3.1 km · 12 stops
Starts at Point 1
90 min · 1.3 km · 12 stops
Starts at North Square
Observing a place with each of the senses, from St. Leonard's Peace Garden to North Square
90 min · 1.9 km · 12 stops
Starts at 1 North Square
90 min · 1.9 km · 12 stops
Starts at 1 North Square
90 min · 2.4 km · 12 stops
Starts at Rachel Revere Square
Teams of 3 to 5 students share one phone.
For under-14s, plan one chaperone per 2 to 3 teams with agreed checkpoints; for ages 14 to 18, follow your school's policy.
Schools can register MBTA subway and bus trips for 10 or more students two weeks ahead to prepay fares; under-12s ride free with paying chaperones.
Downtown is compact and walkable.
Free restrooms are in the Boston Common Visitor Center, Faneuil Hall (basement and quieter second floor) and Quincy Market.
City Hall's close weekends; the City Hall Square City Toilet costs 25 cents.
Classes eat packed lunches on the lawns of Boston Common, in the Public Garden next door or along the Rose Kennedy Greenway near Faneuil Hall.
Take all litter away.
The Central Library in Copley Square is free to enter, and the State House runs free weekday tours booked by phone.
If rain spoils the day, replay the quest free within 30 days.
Caution: Faneuil Hall Marketplace gets very crowded in July and August, with queues for the Quincy Market restrooms. Agree a fixed meeting point there and count teams before moving on.
The Old North Church, the Clough House, Paul Revere Mall, the Paul Revere Statue, Rachel Revere Square and North Square, plus the Massachusetts State House on The Record Breaker.
Urban geography of a dense historic neighborhood (the Skinniest House, narrow North End streets), the waterfront at Battery Wharf, the Rose Kennedy Greenway (a park on the line of a former elevated highway), and map reading and orientation between checkpoints in the North End, Back Bay and the Fenway.
Students read and follow written instructions and story text at each stop. Kid Quest: Solve the case of the lost senses can also be played in Spanish or French (and Romanian), so a world language class can play it in the language it studies.
The Massachusetts State House as the seat of state government, memorials as public history, and teams sharing roles (navigator, reader, puzzle solver) and agreeing on answers together.
Price and terms
No minimum group, no time slot.
A class of 30 on one quest: €150.
Choose a questTell us the quest or city, the class size and the dates. We send an invoice to the school.
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