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Edinburgh

United Kingdom · 12 quests

History

1 quest
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
This rock has faced 26 sieges

Nature

3 quests
Dunbars Close, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Dunbars Close
A formal garden hides behind the Royal Mile
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden
It began with plants meant to heal
Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Arthur's Seat
A volcano forms the main peak of these hills

Art

2 quests
Colinton Tunnel, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Colinton Tunnel
A railway tunnel now tells a village story
Dovecot, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Dovecot
The weaving floor sits inside former baths

Food

3 quests
Haggis, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Haggis
Two mashed roots sit beside the savory center
Full Scottish, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Full Scottish
Its potato scone is a savoury breakfast cake
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
Three Scottish staples share one plate

Sport

1 quest
Murrayfield, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Murrayfield
More than rugby has filled this stadium

Party

2 quests
Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Banshee Labyrinth
Several rooms hide below street level
Jazz Bar, Edinburgh🇬🇧 Edinburgh
Jazz Bar
The late-night set plays below street level

United Kingdom

Photo quests in Edinburgh

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

Edinburgh holds twelve quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Food and Nature are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Edinburgh so far is Beach.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other ten are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Nature quests want weather and daylight rather than opening hours, so the season decides more about a trip here than the distance does. 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.

By category

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

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

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

Nearby

Cities near Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh

How many photo quests are there in Edinburgh?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Nature (3), Food (3) and Art (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Edinburgh Castle, Dunbars Close and Colinton Tunnel.
What is there to do in Edinburgh beyond the obvious?
2 of the 12 quests in Edinburgh are 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". Edinburgh holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Dunbars Close and Dovecot, which fall under Nature and Art.
Can you do all the Edinburgh quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 6.4 km of the middle of the Edinburgh list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Edinburgh quests can you do for free?
10 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 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 Edinburgh means two quests: Dunbars Close and Dovecot.
How do I prove I visited a place in Edinburgh?
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 Edinburgh is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Edinburgh Castle 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. The Food quests in Edinburgh sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.