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.
Playing in SighișoaraMore than 3,000 classes and groups have played Questo together.
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 San Francisco field trip with Questo follows the streets that grew out of the Gold Rush, from the Embarcadero waterfront to Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf, with further routes in Golden Gate Park, Haight-Ashbury and around the Palace of Fine Arts. For classes, start with San Francisco's Financial District: Gold Rush from the Ferry Building, Chinatown Highlights: Warrior Cat past the Tin How Temple and Old St. Mary's Cathedral, and The Aquatic Park: Mafia Job beside the Maritime Museum and the Hyde Street cable car. Routes cover ages 8 to 18, from 3rd grade to high school seniors.
83 min · 3.5 km · 10 stops
Starts at Haight Ashbury 1485
1960s counterculture and music history at the former homes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead; we list it for 14 to 18 because the history of these musicians and the era touches on drug use.
68 min · 3.9 km · 10 stops
Starts at Cervantes Monument
Memorials as history sources: the WWI Memorial and the National AIDS Memorial Grove.
90 min · 2.5 km · 15 stops
Starts at 1* PoFA South Entrance
Following a story based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through clues at the Palace of Fine Arts and its Ocularium.
121 min · 1.4 km · 10 stops
Starts at Hyde St. Pier
San Francisco's working waterfront at the Maritime Museum, Hyde Street Pier and the South End and Dolphin rowing clubs.
134 min · 2.1 km · 10 stops
Starts at Bush Street & Grant Avenue
Chinese American community history at the Old Chinese Telephone Exchange, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the Tin How Temple.
50 min · 2.8 km · 10 stops
Starts at The Embarcadero & Ferry Building
How the Gold Rush turned San Francisco into a banking city, seen at the Wells Fargo Museum and Giannini Plaza.
90 min · 2.5 km · 12 stops
Starts at Palace of Fine Arts
Deduction and close reading: teams piece together a secret society plot from clues gathered at each stop.
90 min · 1.7 km · 12 stops
Starts at Point 1
90 min · 2.5 km · 12 stops
Starts at Point 1
Teams of 3 to 5 students share one phone.
For under-14s, assign one chaperone per 2 to 3 teams with agreed checkpoints; for ages 14 to 18, follow your school's policy.
Students 18 and under ride Muni buses and trains free with no ticket or Clipper card (cable cars excepted), so no group ticket is needed.
Adults tap a contactless card or pay cash.
Only 25 free JCDecaux kiosks exist citywide; attended ones stand at Embarcadero Plaza (9am to 5pm), Hallidie Plaza and Grove and Larkin streets (7am to 7pm).
Plan class stops at museums or the library.
Yerba Buena Gardens, on Mission Street between Third and Fourth Streets, has a big lawn, low walls and benches that suit a class packed lunch.
It opens 6am to 10pm.
SFMOMA admits students 18 and under free, plus up to eight chaperones on a scheduled school visit; the Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, is free.
The quest can be replayed free within 30 days.
Caution: Along the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building, a two-way bikeway carries bikes and scooters beside the crowded waterfront promenade. Teach teams to look both ways before crossing it and to keep off it.
The Gold Rush and the rise of San Francisco's banking district (Wells Fargo Museum, Giannini Plaza, Mechanics Monument); Chinese American community life in Chinatown (Old Chinese Telephone Exchange, Tin How Temple, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Old St. Mary's Cathedral); the working waterfront at Aquatic Park; World War I and the AIDS crisis through memorials in Golden Gate Park; and, for high school, 1960s counterculture in Haight-Ashbury.
Urban geography of a hilly port city, comparing the waterfront, the downtown grid, a large city park and residential neighborhoods; map reading and orientation from stop to stop; planning a route on public transit between start points.
Close reading of on-screen instructions and clues, inference and deduction in the detective and murder mystery quests, and retelling the story of a place to the rest of the team.
Sharing roles in a team of 3 to 5 (navigator, reader, timekeeper), making decisions together under time pressure, and behaving considerately in public spaces and outside private homes, since the quests ask teams not to enter the buildings.
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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