Do I have to register?

No. Without an account you can walk the whole route and answer every question. You need one only for badges, the leaderboard and rating the places.

Do I need the internet the whole time?

You do, but very little of it, and a gap does not matter. An answer given with no signal is stored on the phone and sent by itself as soon as there is one.

What if I cannot answer a question?

The answer is always somewhere around you — on a plaque, on a building, on a monument. If you want a safety net, switch on the "I give up, show me the answer" button before you start.

How long does a walk take?

Usually one to two hours, depending on the length and on how often you stop. Every walk states its length, its number of stops and an estimated time, and you can pause it at any point and finish another day.

🧭 How it works

Guide22 is a set of walks with stories and questions. Take your phone, go outside, and find the answers around you — not on the internet. Here is everything it does.

1Pick a walkFree, and no account needed. Find a city in the list or on the map; every walk shows its length, the number of stops and how long it takes.
2Follow the mapYour phone shows where the next stop is and how to get there. The directions are written the way a person would say them — "round the corner, left at the bench" — not just an arrow on a map.
3Read the story, answer the questionAt each stop you read a short story about the place and get a question. The answer is around you — on a plaque, on the facade, on a monument. You only have to look.

What a stop looks like

This house was built for a merchant who made his money in sugar. He had his initials carved above the door along with the year he moved in — and got the year wrong by one. The mistake is still there; nobody has ever corrected it.

Question: which year is carved above the door?

An illustration, not a real stop. The point is the shape of it: you cannot google the answer, you have to look up.

Badges: on site, or online

Finish a walk and a badge lands in your profile. With location switched on, and you actually standing at the stops, it is the full "on site" badge. You can also play a walk from your armchair, and then the badge says "online" and looks different. The difference is deliberate and visible: a badge should mean something.

Rating the placesNew since September 2026

You can give stars to a whole walk and to each individual stop — but only if you were there. The right to rate is earned exactly like the on-site badge. An average that anyone can push around from the sofa is worth nothing.

Set it up to suit you

Before you start you choose how hard it should be:

The order of the stops — along the route, in reverse, or in any order at all.
Multiple choice, or type the answer in your own words.
The "I give up, show me the answer" button — on or off.
Time yourself, record your route, and pause the walk at any point to finish it another day.

Children enjoy it

Children get a job to do rather than just a walk — and hunting for the answer makes them actually notice the place. With multiple choice even a five-year-old can answer; with free text and no give-up button it will keep a teenager busy. There is no rush: pause the walk and come back to it next week.

Somebody walked the route

We do not build a walk at a desk from a map. The route is walked on foot, the coordinates are taken on the ground, and we check that the thing we ask about really is visible from there and that you can stand at the stop. Towns change, though — if a stop is off, tell us and we will fix it.

The facts are checked

Every date, number and name in our texts has been checked against independent sources, in all eight languages. A legend may appear, but labelled as a legend. We do not make things up — and when a mistake is found anyway, we correct it and say so.

🔍 How we check facts

In a browser, and as an app

The website works on any phone with nothing to install. An app for Android and iPhone is on the way, because it does two things a browser does badly: reliable location while the phone is in your pocket, and a downloaded walk with its map for places with no signal (offline mode is switched on per account, on request).

Profile and leaderboard

Your profile holds your badges, a map of the walks you have finished and the kilometres you have covered. The leaderboard ranks by those kilometres — and only the ones you really walked on site count.

Eight languages

Czech, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. They are not translations left to rot: every correction is applied to all eight versions at once and then checked again.

What it costs

Nothing. You can walk the whole thing without paying and without an account; advertising covers the running costs. Signing in is worth it for the badges, the leaderboard, your walk history and the ratings.

Common questions

Do I have to register?: No. Without an account you can walk the whole route and answer every question. You need one only for badges, the leaderboard and rating the places.
Do I need the internet the whole time?: You do, but very little of it, and a gap does not matter. An answer given with no signal is stored on the phone and sent by itself as soon as there is one.
What if I cannot answer a question?: The answer is always somewhere around you — on a plaque, on a building, on a monument. If you want a safety net, switch on the "I give up, show me the answer" button before you start.
How long does a walk take?: Usually one to two hours, depending on the length and on how often you stop. Every walk states its length, its number of stops and an estimated time, and you can pause it at any point and finish another day.

Pick a walk