The Longest Queue
Food & Drink · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Eat at whichever hawker stall has the longest local queue.
The catch: No choosing by reviews or ratings.
Bonus +25: Order a second dish from the stall with the shortest queue too.
Free travel game
Side Quest
Turn Singapore 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
Pick your place
Tell us what city you're exploring.
Step 2
Get your quest
Choose a category or let us surprise you.
Step 3
Complete + share
Finish the challenge, earn points and screenshot your achievement.
Playing Side Quest in Singapore
Singapore rewards riding past downtown. These quests use hawker queues as a rating system, park connectors as roads and the residential towns at the end of the MRT lines as the real attraction.
- Best time to play
- Early morning or after sunset. The humidity, not the distance, is what tires you.
- Local rule
- Choping a hawker seat with a packet of tissues is a real, respected system. Use it.
- Honest note
- The longest hawker queue is a better guide than any ranking list, and costs a few dollars.
Where are you right now?
No location access needed — just tell us the city.
What kind of side quest?
How far do you want to go?
Your side quest score today
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.
Side quests written for Singapore
These challenges only work here. Play them in any order — the game will mix them with quests that work anywhere in Singapore.
Ride Out to the Estates
Explore · Adventure · 200 points · 2 hrs
Take the MRT to a residential town far from downtown and walk it.
The catch: Nothing on the tourist map today.
Bonus +50: Find a neighbourhood temple, mosque and church within one walk.
Green the Whole Way
Outdoors · Easy · 100 points · 1–2 hrs
Travel between two places using park connectors instead of streets.
The catch: No road pavements unless unavoidable.
Bonus +50: Spot a monitor lizard, otter or hornbill.
Three Quarters in One Afternoon
Local Culture · Quick · 50 points · 1–2 hrs
Walk through Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam on the same trip.
The catch: Walk or MRT only, no taxis between them.
Bonus +25: Learn a greeting used in each quarter.
Hawker Centre Rules
Food & Drink · Quick · 50 points · 30 min
Eat at a hawker centre and follow the local system properly.
The catch: You must return your own tray.
Bonus +25: Order from a stall with a heritage award.
Under The Blocks
Explore · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Walk the void decks and heartland shops of a housing estate.
The catch: No malls at all.
Bonus +50: Order kopi using the proper name.
Order Kopi Correctly
Local Culture · Quick · 50 points · 15 min
Order coffee using the full local coffee-shop vocabulary.
The catch: No English words in the order.
Bonus +25: Order a second one differently.
Follow The Green
Outdoors · Adventure · 200 points · 2 hrs
Walk or ride a park connector between two neighbourhoods.
The catch: You must stay on the green route.
Bonus +75: Spot three kinds of bird.
Shophouse Colours
Hidden Gems · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Photograph six shophouse façades, all different colours.
The catch: No repeats.
Bonus +25: Find one with original tiles.
Wet Market Morning
Food & Drink · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Walk a wet market before it closes for the day.
The catch: No supermarkets.
Bonus +50: Ask what is in season right now.
One Gallery
Museums · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
See one gallery of a Singapore museum properly.
The catch: No attempting the whole museum.
Bonus +50: Find the object with the strangest story.
Ask The Stall Uncle
Local Culture · Bold · 300 points · 45 min
Ask a hawker stall owner what they are proudest of, and order that.
The catch: You must order what they say.
Bonus +75: Ask how long they have run the stall.
After Dark, Outdoors
Hidden Gems · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Find an outdoor Singapore spot that is better after dark than in daylight.
The catch: Nothing indoors and nothing ticketed.
Bonus +50: Find where locals go, not tourists.
Heritage Trail
Local Culture · Adventure · 200 points · 2 hrs
Follow one of Singapore's marked heritage trails on foot.
The catch: No skipping ahead by MRT.
Bonus +75: Find the plaque about something that no longer exists.
The Durian Question
Food & Drink · Adventure · 200 points · 45 min
Try durian, properly, from a stall that sells it fresh.
The catch: You must actually finish a piece.
Bonus +75: Try a second variety and compare.
Three Singapores
Must-Do · Epic · 500 points · 4 hrs
In one day, visit a heartland estate, a heritage district and a green space.
The catch: No taxis between them.
Bonus +150: Add a fourth: the coast.
Share your Side Quest
Singapore Side Quest
Send Singapore side quests to whoever you're travelling with. The link opens this city ready to play.
https://buybeforeyoufly.com/ja/side-quest/singapore
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What is a travel side quest?
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.
How Side Quest works
- Pick your place. Search for the city you are exploring. No location permission and no precise GPS required.
- Choose a category. Food, museums, landmarks, exploring, photography, culture, outdoors or hidden gems — or let the dice decide.
- Get your quest. Each one comes with a mission, a catch and a bonus objective worth extra points.
- Earn points. Quick quests are worth 50 points and epic ones 500, with bonuses from 25 to 100 on top.
- Screenshot and share. Completing a quest turns it into an achievement card built to fit a phone screenshot.
Side Quest ideas for travelers
Food & Drink
Markets, bakeries, street food and the dish locals order without looking at the menu.
Museums
One room, one object, one story — museum challenges that beat drifting past everything.
Must-Do
The landmark experiences, with a twist that stops them feeling like a checklist.
Explore
Neighbourhood walks, wrong turns on purpose and streets guidebooks skip.
Photo Quest
Small photo missions that train you to notice details other travellers walk past.
Local Culture
Language, music, craft, ritual and everyday life where you happen to be standing.
Outdoors
Parks, water, viewpoints and green detours between the busy bits.
Hidden Gems
The small, quiet, odd and overlooked corners of a city.
Play Side Quest with friends
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.
- 100 — Explorer
- 500 — Wanderer
- 1,000 — Adventurer
- 2,500 — Globetrotter
- 5,000 — Side Quest Legend
Explore more with Buy Before You Fly
Side Quest is free and always will be. When you want the rest of the trip sorted, the same site covers it:
- Destination guides
Country-by-country guides, things to do and short itineraries.
- Airport guides
Arrivals, transport, wi-fi, food and connections for major hubs.
- Travel eSIMs
Mobile data in 200+ destinations, installed before you land.
- Personalized trip plans
A downloadable plan built around your pace, interests and budget.