German Unity Day is Saturday 3 October 2026. It is the one public holiday the whole Federal Republic shares in autumn (the rest of October depends on the Land: Reformation Day, All Saints, and so on).
If you run hunts in Germany, people will compare you with Actionbound. That is a strong native-app brand. This outline is for companies and Vereine that want a Unity Day Schnitzeljagd in the browser, so IT does not have to allow another store app.
defaultLanguage German. Write the tasks in German. allowTranslation for the English speakers in the Berlin office.
Schnitzeljagd is the word. Treasure hunt is fine in a UK office. Use Schnitzeljagd in DE copy, on the join slide, in the intranet blurb.
Friday 2 October is the working-day version for companies that will not drag people in on Saturday. 75 minutes, indoor plus courtyard.
Saturday 3 October is civic: Vereine, campuses, city marketing. Crowds. Prevent bunching. Shuffle middle chapters. Instant Join at the place with signal.
GPS in an Altstadt canyon is unreliable. Mix qrbarcode on official notices you have permission to use, and location only on wide plazas. Patchy signal.
This is 3 October 1990, not a beer festival. Oktoberfest 2026 runs 19 September to 4 October in Munich, so the weekends overlap in the public mind. If you are not in Munich, skip dirndl clip art. If you are in Munich, skip sending people into the Wiesn as a task. That is a crowd-control and permit problem.
Photo tasks: landmarks, a Trabi as a museum piece if that is actually there, a federal eagle on a public building. Skip “find someone from the other former side” as a joke. It does not land.
No install. pyts.link. ISO 27001. Hosting in Japan under EU-Japan adequacy. Live GPS off unless the Betriebsrat said yes. Full packet: IT approved.
Features are identical on free and paid. Watermark on free. Concurrent devices are the cap.
Chapter 1, in order: what 3 October is, safety, one multiple-choice you had a historian check.
Chapter 2, shuffled: four QR or photo missions.
Chapter 3: finish line, image-share optional.
Facilitator messaging when a street closes for a ceremony.
Actionbound is a strong German native-app brand. We are the no-download option with a free concurrent tier. Tourism and schools that already live in Actionbound may stay. Companies that cannot install often move. A longer product comparison is in PlayTours vs Actionbound.
3 October is federal. 31 October Reformation Day is not, not everywhere. 1 November All Saints is not, not everywhere. If your company has sites in Bavaria and Berlin, the school-holiday map around Unity Day weekend will not match. Publish one join QR. Skip assuming one school-pickup time.
hideAfterCompletion on a QR if you only want one scan per team at a small shop.
mustCompleteWithXOtherTeams is tidy on paper and messy if you have five teams. Skip it for Unity Day.
QuickBuild in German. Then a native speaker edits. If you want a read-through, hello@playtours.app.
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