Berlin Bingo: Spot 30 Typically Berlin Things
Walk the city, tick off the card, snap a photo of every typically Berlin thing you can find. From a currywurst stand on Friedrichstraße to a chunk of Wall on Bernauer Straße, this is a 30-item Berlin bingo that turns any walk into a treasure hunt. No fixed route. Just keep your eyes open.
Challenges (30)
Spot the Brandenburg Gate
Find the Brandenburg Gate at the western edge of Unter den Linden. Photograph the six columns with the Quadriga chariot on top.
Spot the Fernsehturm
Find the Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm) at Alexanderplatz, the silver ball on a spike that is visible from almost anywhere in the city. Photograph it.
Spot a currywurst
Find a currywurst on a paper plate at any Imbiss stand (Curry 36, Konnopke's, any Späti corner). Photograph the curry-powder-dusted sausage with the fries.
Spot a döner kebab
Find a döner kebab being made on a spit or served in a pita at a kebab joint. Berlin claims to have invented the modern döner. Photograph it.
Spot a German pretzel
Find a Brezel (German soft pretzel) in a bakery window or on a café table. Photograph the salt-studded loop.
Spot a Berliner pastry
Find a Berliner (jam-filled doughnut, called Krapfen elsewhere) in a bakery window. Photograph the dusted-sugar top.
Spot a German beer stein
Find a beer stein or tall pilsner glass on a beer-garden table. Photograph the head of foam on top.
Spot the German flag
Find a German flag (horizontal black-red-gold) flying on a building, balcony or government facility. Photograph it.
Spot a Späti corner
Find a Späti (Spätkauf), the late-night corner shop unique to Berlin. Photograph the shelves and beer fridge through the doorway.
Spot a U-Bahn sign
Find a blue U-Bahn sign at any Munich Metro entrance. Photograph the sign.
Spot the Berliner Dom
Find the Berliner Dom on Museum Island with its blue-green copper dome. Photograph the cathedral from across the Lustgarten.
Spot a chunk of the Berlin Wall
Find a preserved segment of the Berlin Wall (East Side Gallery, Bernauer Straße Memorial, Topographie des Terrors, a souvenir-shop chip). Photograph the graffiti or concrete.
Spot an East Side Gallery mural
Walk to the East Side Gallery and find a famous mural (the Brezhnev-Honecker kiss, the Trabant breaking through). Photograph one of the painted panels.
Spot a Trabant car
Find a Trabant (the East German two-stroke car) parked or on a Trabi Safari tour. Photograph the plastic body in any colour.
Spot the Ampelmännchen
Find the green or red Ampelmännchen, the East Berlin pedestrian-light figure with the hat. Photograph one at a crossing or in a souvenir shop window.
Spot a Spree boat
Find a tour boat or barge on the Spree river running through central Berlin. Photograph it passing the Berliner Dom or the Reichstag.
Spot the Reichstag dome
Find the glass Reichstag dome by Norman Foster on top of the parliament building. Photograph it from the lawn or one of the surrounding bridges.
Spot a Checkpoint Charlie sign
Find the "You are leaving the American sector" sign at Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstraße (or in any museum display). Photograph the bilingual sign.
Spot a Litfaßsäule
Find a Litfaßsäule, the cylindrical advertising column invented in Berlin in 1855, plastered with concert posters and flyers. Photograph the round column.
Spot a beer garden
Find a Biergarten with wooden benches, gravel underfoot and beer steins on the tables (Prater in Prenzlauer Berg, Tiergarten cafés). Photograph the rows of tables.
Spot a yellow Berlin tram
Find a yellow BVG tram running through Mitte or the eastern districts (West Berlin lost most of its trams after WWII). Photograph one in motion.
Spot a graffiti tag
Berlin is one of the world graffiti capitals. Find a striking tag, throw-up or mural (Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, RAW Gelände). Photograph the wall.
Spot Berlin street art
Different from a tag, find a piece of street art with a recognisable figure (a Blu mural, a Banksy-like stencil, a wheatpaste). Photograph it.
Spot Mauerpark karaoke or guitar
Walk into Mauerpark on a Sunday for the open-air karaoke or flea market, or any day for the buskers. Photograph the crowd or a guitar player.
Spot the Victory Column
Find the gold-winged Siegessäule (Victory Column) in Tiergarten. Photograph it from the Straße des 17. Juni or a Tiergarten path.
Spot a Berlin Bear
Find a painted Buddy Bear statue (the painted bears scattered around the city for the United Buddy Bears art project). Photograph one full body.
Spot a German bratwurst
Find a grilled bratwurst (a longer, finer sausage than currywurst) on a paper plate or in a roll. Photograph it with mustard on the side.
Spot Berlin Pilsner branding
Find a Berliner Pilsner glass, coaster or umbrella outside a Kneipe. Photograph the blue-and-white logo.
Spot a Hertha or Union mural
Find a Hertha BSC (Berlin's blue) or 1. FC Union Berlin (Köpenick red and white) sticker, mural or fan banner. Photograph the football tribalism.
Spot a Brandenburg Gate quadriga close-up
Walk close enough to the Brandenburg Gate to photograph the Quadriga (the four-horse chariot statue) on top of the gate. Photograph the horses against the sky.
Frequently asked questions
The duration is up to the organizer when they set up the adventure. As a guideline, a focused afternoon through Mitte (Brandenburg Gate, Friedrichstraße, Hackescher Markt) ticks off most of the easy items, and stretching the game across a weekend lets a determined group complete all 30. Pick the time window that suits your group.
Each of the 30 items is a camera challenge. When you spot the thing, take a photo and submit it; the bingo card tracks progress. Play solo, with friends or split into teams and race to tick off the most items.
Some items (a Trabant in the wild, a Späti late at night) are rarer than others. Sweep Mitte for the easy items, head to Kreuzberg for graffiti and Spätis, the East Side Gallery for Wall murals and Prenzlauer Berg for cafés and bakeries.
Mitte, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain hit most items in a short loop: the Brandenburg Gate, the TV Tower, the East Side Gallery, currywurst stands and Späti corners. Add Prenzlauer Berg for the Sunday flea market at Mauerpark.
Yes. Kids love spotting the Ampelmännchen, pretzels and trams; adults enjoy hunting Wall fragments, Spätis and Trabants. The beer-stein challenge can be replaced with a Berliner Pilsner glass photo or skipped for a family run.