The city is the game board. Your team writes the story.
The City Challenge sends your group into the heart of Lisbon to solve riddles, chase clues and taste the city street by street. No stage, no seating plan, just seven hills, a river of light and a route only your team will walk exactly that way.
Choose how you want to play it: the classic self-guided route on foot, or a fully bespoke app-based version with live scoring, video challenges and your brand built into every screen.
Pick your format
Same concept, same city, two very different textures. Both are built in-house by Go Discover Portugal and Synergized Events – never off a shelf.
The City Challenge
Printed clue packs, physical checkpoints and face-to-face interaction with locals and costumed characters along the way. Slower, warmer, built for groups who want Lisbon to feel handmade.
City Challenge: App Edition
A web app commissioned for your group alone, in your colours, running on every phone in the room. Teams follow an interactive map, unlock video, music, puzzle and quiz challenges, and watch the leaderboard move in real time.
How a City Challenge day runs
The shape is the same whichever format you choose. Only the tools in your team’s hands change.
Brief on site
Teams form, get their clue pack or app login, and hear the rules of the day from a GDP facilitator.
Explore the route
Groups move through Lisbon’s historic center at their own pace, chasing clues between landmarks.
Solve and taste
Riddles, photo tasks and local flavours – pastéis de nata, ginjinha, cheeses – punctuate every stop.
Reunite and reveal
Teams regroup for a closing moment, results are shared, and the stories start doing the rounds.
Six ways to test a team
Every route mixes challenge types so energy stays high from the first clue to the last. Some are built for both formats, others only make sense once the app is running the game.
Street-level riddles
Written clues that send teams deeper into the city, tying language, history and local knowledge together.
Creative photo challenges
Fun, staged photo missions at each stop – judged for creativity as much as accuracy.
Local flavour stops
Pastéis de nata, ginjinha, artisan cheeses – built into the route as edible checkpoints, not an afterthought.
Video challenges
Teams film short responses on location, submitted through the app and judged live for creativity and teamwork.
Real-time leaderboard
Every submission updates a shared leaderboard instantly, turning discovery into genuine friendly competition.
Whole-team collaboration
Moments built so the entire group has to work together, not just the fastest pair, to unlock the next stop.
- LocationLisbon’s historic center, routes built for both formats
- Group size20 to 500+ participants depending on format
- Duration2 to 3 hours, flexible on request
- LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese, Spanish, French
- Add-onsLocal food tasting, prizes, actor interactions, custom stories
- App edition from€55 per person, 24-48 hour proposal turnaround
Built in-house, every time
Every City Challenge, on foot or through the app, is designed by Go Discover Portugal and Synergized Events around your group’s goals – not pulled from a shelf of templated routes. Same Lisbon, same energy, no two challenges run the same way twice.