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Melbourne

Australia · 3 quests

Sport

2 quests
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne🇦🇺 Melbourne
Rod Laver Arena
The man it is named for did it twice
Phillip Island, Melbourne🇦🇺 Melbourne
Phillip Island
One of two tracks here licensed for MotoGP

Party

1 quest
Black Pearl, Melbourne🇦🇺 Melbourne
Black Pearl
A second bar hides on the floor above

Australia

Photo quests in Melbourne

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Two of the three quests in Melbourne are sport — more than half the city in one category, with the rest spread over one other category.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Rod Laver Arena. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other two are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers two of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

The sport quests are venues, and a venue on a day with no fixture is a very large empty building — the calendar matters more than the opening hours. Party is the group where the hour decides everything: the same address is a landmark at midnight and an empty street at six. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

Melbourne is a short list for now — three quests is exactly the floor a city needs to have a page here at all. It grows when the pipeline publishes into Melbourne again, and nothing about this page has to change for that to happen.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Melbourne quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Melbourne the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Melbourne

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Melbourne

How many photo quests are there in Melbourne?
3, across Sport and Party. The deepest group is Sport (2). Nothing in History, Nature, Art, Food and Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. They are: Rod Laver Arena, Black Pearl and Phillip Island.
What is there to do in Melbourne beyond the obvious?
One of the 3 quests in Melbourne is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Melbourne holds one at tier 1, none at tier 2 and two at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Rod Laver Arena, in Sport.
Can you do all the Melbourne quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 3 is 79 km from the middle of the Melbourne list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Melbourne quests can you do for free?
2 of the 3 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 3 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Melbourne means one quest: Rod Laver Arena.
How do I prove I visited a place in Melbourne?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Melbourne is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Rod Laver Arena fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you.