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Turn Barcelona into an adventure.
Tell us where you are. Pick your kind of adventure. We'll give you something unexpected to do. No account. No app. Just go.
Start a side questPlay anywhere · Complete quests · Earn points · Screenshot your wins · Challenge your friends
Step 1
Tell us what city you're exploring.
Step 2
Choose a category or let us surprise you.
Step 3
Finish the challenge, earn points and screenshot your achievement.
Barcelona is a grid with a medieval knot in the middle and hills behind it. The pack mixes market counters, uphill views and the Eixample details you only notice at pavement level.
No location access needed — just tell us the city.
0 points
0 all-time
100 points to Explorer
Scores are saved in this browser on this device only. No account, no email, nothing sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data clears your score.
These challenges only work here. Play them in any order — the game will mix them with quests that work anywhere in Spain.
Explore · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Walk the Eixample grid diagonally, using only the cut corners.
The catch: Diagonals only — never straight through two blocks in a row.
Bonus +50: Find out why the corners were cut in the first place.
Food & Drink · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Order a drink and a snack in a bar with no outdoor terrace.
The catch: No terraces, no menus in English.
Bonus +25: Order your second round in Catalan or Spanish.
Outdoors · Adventure · 200 points · 1–2 hrs
Walk uphill from where you are until the whole city fits in one view.
The catch: No funicular, no cable car, no taxi.
Bonus +50: Identify three landmarks from up there without your phone.
Food & Drink · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Do the vermut ritual before lunch, standing or at a small table.
The catch: Before 2pm only.
Bonus +50: Order the tinned seafood alongside.
Explore · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Walk the Eixample grid and count the cut-off corners.
The catch: You may not leave the grid.
Bonus +25: Find a modernista façade you had never heard of.
Hidden Gems · Adventure · 200 points · 1–2 hrs
Climb to a Barcelona viewpoint on foot rather than taking transport up.
The catch: No funicular, no taxi, no bus up.
Bonus +75: Time yourself and beat it another day.
Food & Drink · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Shop a Barcelona market from the back rows, not the entrance.
The catch: Nothing from the front row.
Bonus +50: Order at a market bar stool.
Photo Quest · Quick · 50 points · 20 min
Photograph five different Barcelona pavement tiles and patterns.
The catch: Pavement only, nothing else in frame.
Bonus +25: Find the famous flower tile.
Outdoors · Easy · 100 points · 1–2 hrs
Walk the Barcelona seafront until the beach bars stop.
The catch: You must keep going past the last chiringuito.
Bonus +50: Swim, or at least get in to your knees.
Local Culture · Easy · 100 points · 30 min
Use Catalan, not Spanish, for three interactions.
The catch: No Spanish for those three phrases.
Bonus +25: Learn one more word and use it.
Local Culture · Adventure · 200 points · 1–2 hrs
Find physical traces of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona's streets.
The catch: Must be found on foot in one neighbourhood.
Bonus +75: Find an air-raid shelter marker.
Local Culture · Bold · 300 points · 1–2 hrs
Eat a full weekday menú del día at a workers' restaurant.
The catch: No à la carte, no tourist menu.
Bonus +75: Order the course you understand least.
Hidden Gems · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Find three Gràcia squares and have one drink in each.
The catch: No repeating a square.
Bonus +50: Find the one with the clock tower.
Museums · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
See three Gaudí works from the street, no tickets bought.
The catch: Zero admission fees.
Bonus +50: Find a lesser-known modernista building too.
Must-Do · Epic · 500 points · 4 hrs
Walk from the hills above Barcelona all the way down to the water.
The catch: No transport on the way down.
Bonus +150: Swim at the end.
Share your Side Quest
Send Barcelona side quests to whoever you're travelling with. The link opens this city ready to play.
https://buybeforeyoufly.com/de/side-quest/barcelona
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A side quest is a small, self-contained challenge you can complete wherever you happen to be standing. Side Quest is a free browser-based travel game from Buy Before You Fly: you tell it which city you are exploring, choose the kind of adventure you are in the mood for, and it hands you something unexpected to do. Every quest is built from an objective, a constraint that makes it interesting, and an optional bonus — so instead of another list of the same twenty attractions, you get a reason to walk down a different street, order something you cannot pronounce, or look at one painting for twenty minutes.
There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. It works on the phone in your pocket, in the gap between a late checkout and an evening flight, or on a full free day in a city you have never visited.
Markets, bakeries, street food and the dish locals order without looking at the menu.
One room, one object, one story — museum challenges that beat drifting past everything.
The landmark experiences, with a twist that stops them feeling like a checklist.
Neighbourhood walks, wrong turns on purpose and streets guidebooks skip.
Small photo missions that train you to notice details other travellers walk past.
Language, music, craft, ritual and everyday life where you happen to be standing.
Parks, water, viewpoints and green detours between the busy bits.
The small, quiet, odd and overlooked corners of a city.
Side Quest has no accounts, no friend lists and no leaderboards to join — which is exactly what makes it easy to play together. Everyone opens the page on their own phone, plays the same city, and compares screenshots at dinner. Agree on a target before you split up: first to 500 points, most quests completed before sunset, or one epic quest each. Points are kept in your own browser, so the only scoreboard is the one you keep between you.
Side Quest is free and always will be. When you want the rest of the trip sorted, the same site covers it:
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