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Budapest, Hungary · Outdoor mystery game
One thousand years.
One thousand years.
One nameless hand.
In 1894 an archivist was hired to check the history Budapest was about to carve into stone. He worked for two years. His last notebook was filed and never opened again. You have it now.
Free while testing
Testing round only
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The Nameless Hand is finished and live in the Questo app. One signup unlocks every case in testing — Budapest, Prague and both Maribor cases.
Each case has 50 tester places of its own. They go in the order the signups arrive.
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Case 006 · Budapest
The Nameless Hand
In 1896 Hungary celebrated its thousandth birthday. The date was never found in a source. The Academy of Sciences voted on it — and then the city carved it into a square, a column, a boulevard and a basilica.
Your investigation
You follow the notebook of Ágoston Rédey, the archivist hired to verify what Budapest was about to build. The route is one straight line: St Stephen's Basilica, the whole length of Andrássy út, Heroes' Square, and the park behind it.
Every answer is a real inscription, figure or roof detail you can see from the street. Eight stops, no tickets, nothing to go inside. The last one is a statue with no face and no name.
The monuments, the inscriptions and the 1896 decision are real and researched. Ágoston Rédey and his notebook are fiction.
The route
- St Stephen's Basilica — the gold letters above the door · start
- Andrássy út — the Opera House
- Andrássy út 60 — the roof that spells a word
- Kodály körönd — the circus with four names
- Heroes' Square — the column
- Heroes' Square — the stone with no statue
- Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
- The statue of Anonymous · finish
3.4 km in one straight line, no climbing. Everything you have to see is visible from public ground — no tickets, and nothing to go inside.
1 h 50Duration
1–5Players
8Stops
ENGame language
Practical
What you need.
Comfortable shoes
3.4 km up Andrássy út and into City Park. It is flat the whole way, with no climbing.
Daylight helps
You can play at any hour, but most answers are carved detail on façades, plinths and roofs.
No booking
No guide, no fixed hour, no group. You start whenever it suits you.
No entry fees
Everything you have to observe is visible from the street. You never go inside a building.
Game language
English for now. This page is in English, Slovenian, Czech and Slovak.
Getting there
The game starts at St Stephen's Basilica.
On the square in front of the main door, Szent István tér. No ticket desk and no guide — stand far enough back to read the band of gold letters above the door, and open the app.
By metro
Line M1 or M3 to Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út, or M1 to Arany János utca. Either way it is a three-minute walk.
On foot from the centre
About ten minutes from Deák Ferenc tér, where all three old metro lines meet.
From the airport
Bus 100E to Deák Ferenc tér, then ten minutes on foot. Around 45 minutes in total.
The square is open at every hour and no step of the case depends on opening times — you can start whenever you like. Open the start point in Maps.
Case 006 · Open for testing
Who was P.?
He signed the book the country's whole history rests on with a single letter. Nobody has ever put a name to it.