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Draw a card. Go and find it.
An outdoor card game for exploring with your kids — with challenges written for real parks, and a Play Anywhere deck for a backyard, a sidewalk, or the long way home.
- Works anywhere
Climbing Tree
Find the best climbing tree around. You don't have to climb it.
- Great Brook Farm
The Ice Cream Stand
Find the ice cream stand. Whether the adventure ends there is a grown-up decision.
- Detour
Everybody Hops
Pick something close by, and everybody hop all the way to it. Grown-ups too.
Real cards, straight out of the game. Most are this easy — the ones written for a particular park are the reason to drive to one.
How a game goes
Draw a card
Nobody knows what's on it until you flip it. One challenge at a time, so everyone's looking for the same thing.
Go and find it
Together — nobody runs off. A grown-up decides whether it counts, and sneaky answers count too.
Take a Detour
Now and then a card turns up that isn't a challenge at all. Three hundred steps, counted out loud, before the next one.
Finish the deck
Seven cards for a quick adventure, fifteen for a long one. Finish the whole thing and you're Legendary Explorers.
39 places so far
Browse them all →Written for the place
A boulder people sharpened tools on. Bellows eighteen feet long that blew air into a furnace. A building where a famous writer had a job he hated. Every card researched from the park's own records — and if nobody has walked the place yet, the page says so.
Or anywhere at all
Not near one? Tell it roughly where you are — woods, water, a neighborhood, a city — and it builds a deck that fits. A city has water; it's just not a brook.
What it costs
Free, always
Play Anywhere works wherever you are and never costs anything. Three featured places are free too, and you pick which — enough to finish a whole region and earn its crest without paying us a penny.
The Explorer Pass
$19.99 a year, or $49.99 once. Opens every featured place we have written and every one we add. No adverts, no accounts, and nothing you already played is ever taken away.
What it looks like
Go outside this weekend
Free, and it works with no signal once you're there.