About Munzee

  • Munzees Deployed: 517,012
  • Total Captures: 3,656,688

Testimonials

  • Thanks munzee for helping to make family time, fun time. There are not many places you can take your kids for free that entertain them and allow a family adventure. But you guys did it!
    Annette

  • Can't wait to deploy my own munzees as I travel around my area and out of town. This will be a great app for users to find locations they have never seen. Easy to use new age scavenger hunt!
    akgraham

  • I'm enjoying playing around with this ap... excited to see what this develops into.
    josh02

Munzee is a real world scavenger hunt game where items are found in the real world and captured using your smartphone. You then level up and gain rank based on your score. Points are obtained by capturing other people's munzees or when your deployed munzees are captured by someone else. Munzee is based off of the fundamentals of geocaching and adds another layer of fun to the hunt.

What do munzees look like?


Munzees come in any size or shape but all must contain a QR-code style barcode. The barcode combined with your GPS coordinates are the essential gameplay elements of munzee.

Munzees can be hidden in containers, camouflaged or even in plain view. They can also be found at your favorite local business.

How do I find a munzee?


Download the Munzee app for your smartphone and view the munzees close to you. The app will show you a map or list view of munzees as well as clues about that munzee and how far away it is.

Munzee is currently only supported on the iPhone and Android platforms. We have no immediate plans for a Blackberry, Windows Mobile or WebOS version as our resources are being focused on developing the iPhone and Android versions. This could change in the future!

How do I capture a munzee?


Once you hunt down the munzee, you simply go to the 'Capture' mode of the app and hold the barcode up to your smartphone's camera. The app will read the barcode and check your current location via GPS to verify you have actually made it to the capture location. You will then be given points for the capture and the person who deployed the munzee you found will also get points.

*Note: Once you capture a munzee, leave it there for other players to find!

How do I deploy my own munzee?


Hopefully there are already munzees in your area but if not, you can login to the Munzee website to generate and print your own unique munzee game pieces. You can also purchase weatherproof munzees from our store.

Then, be creative! The sky is the limit on what ideas you can come up with to hide your munzee. We've found laminating them or putting them in a waterproof container is pretty easy.

Next, go ahead and hide your munzee out in the wild. Other players won't be able to find it though until you tell the app to "Deploy" it. Once you go to the 'Deploy a Munzee' section of the app you then simply scan the barcode at your hiding location and it will activate it.

Now, sit back and relax and watch your points multiply as other people find your munzee.

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