SPY ACADEMY: TOP SECRET FIELD MISSION — SALT LAKE CITY
About this Event
📍 Salt Lake City
📅 June 13-19, 2026
⏰ Start anytime between 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
🎟 Mobile Ticket
👟 Walkable Immersive Experience
⌛ Duration: 45–75 minutes
As a freshly recruited rookie, you'll hit the streets to solve puzzles, follow intel drops, decipher coded messages, and attempt to impress HQ with your "professionalism" (no promises).
Dress up, snap (covert!) photos, and compete for prizes.
Each location offers both easy or hard puzzles, so you can choose your difficulty. But be warned... one of them may involve tracking down a suspicious chicken. Nobody knows why. Nobody asks.
Will you beat the other recruits in this no-so-secret spy event through Salt Lake City?
⭐ Join 30,000+ Story City Adventurers worldwide
IMPORTANT: This is a free event, but ticket registration is required to receive your starting location and gameplay details.
What's Included
- Access to the Spy Academy field mission
- Outdoor spy-themed puzzle adventure
- Story City app gameplay access
- GPS-triggered puzzles and intel drops
- Multiple puzzle difficulty options
- Digital event materials and instructions
- Multiple costumed teams playing at same time
- Monthly cash prizes up for grabs, how will your team compare?
Meeting and Pickup
Your secret starting location will be emailed to you one week before the event.
This is a self-guided experience played through the Story City app. You will not meet a guide or staff member on the ground during gameplay, but there will be other costumed teams completing their field missions throughout the city during the event window.
The experience unfolds entirely through your phone as you solve puzzles, uncover intel, and progress through the mission at your own pace.
Ticket Information
🎟 Team Ticket: Free
📍 Location: Salt Lake City
📲 App download instructions arrive in your pre-game email.
🎧 Headphones or a Bluetooth speaker are optional, but recommended for immersion.
🔁 Unlimited replay access post-event if you want to revisit your training mission. Maybe try the harder puzzles?
All tickets are digitally delivered.
What To Expect
This outdoor spy mission sends you across real city streets completing training exercises, solving coded puzzles, gathering intel, and proving yourself worthy of Spy Academy status.
Along the way, you’ll:
- Solve coded messages and spy puzzles
- Follow GPS-triggered intel drops
- Choose between easy or hard puzzle paths
Pets are welcome. A spy dog in sunglasses is basically an instant promotion.
Each stop happens in a new location. One start location, multiple puzzle difficulties, a surprising chicken? Will you be accepted into the academy?
- Grab your ticket - play solo or as a team.
- Get your secret start location - revealed by email 1 week before
- Dress to impress — trench coats, sunglasses, tactical vibes, and undercover aesthetics are highly encouraged.
- Show up & start - anytime on event day between 10AM to 4PM
- Play the adventure - The experience unfolds via our custom built app - guiding you from location to location.
- Take your time - most teams finish in 45–75 mins
- Share the moment - share your photos of ghost encounters & costumes to win prizes
Additional Information
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Please dress appropriately for weather conditions
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation where applicable
- This is a self-guided experience
- Your location is only tracked while actively using the app
- Privacy matters to us
- Flexible - pause anytime, continue at your pace
- Designed to be stroller and wheelchair friendly where possible
- Phone OS: You need at minimum iOS 16 or Android 7
- You will need to have access to cellphone data
Frequently Asked Questions
- “Do I dress up?” You can! Dress up to win prizes
- "What if it rains?" The hunt continues! If the weather is severe, we’ll automatically credit your account for a future date of your choice.
- “Are there age restrictions?” Children and strollers are welcome, content rating is PG.
- Yes adults who DON’T have kids will enjoy this comedic adventure too.
Please note this adventure may include optional physical activities such as stairs or brief running segments.
Prizes
We LOVE when agents commit to their undercover look.
Share photos using #StoryCitySpyAcademy to enter:
🏆 Best Dressed Team
✨ Best Dressed Individual
⚡ Fastest Team
📝 Best Team Name
📸 Best Photo Moment
🐾 Best Themed Pet
Winners receive cash prizes (up to $500 depending on the category), exclusive enamel pins, and more, plus a feature on our socials. You’ll be battling events in other cities for the top spots so bring your A-game and city pride!
About Story City
Story City is a small independent 10-person creative-tech studio on a mission to empower people to share and step into the world's stories.
Using Story City’s no-code platform, creators around the world have transformed real streets into playable storyworlds filled with humor, adventure, and the occasional rogue chicken.
Story City has partnered with festivals, museums, cities including Atlanta, Calgary, and Melbourne UNESCO City, non-profits including the Human Rights Foundation, and creators around the world.
By purchasing a ticket, you directly support independently created interactive stories and experiences in communities like yours. Thank you for co-creating with us to make the world more fun and connected.
Creators
Created by:
- Nick Manning (Writer/Puzzle Maker)
- Matt Mihilewicz (Editor/Actor)
- Teddy Kaboom (Artist)
- Toast + Jam (Music & Sound)
Safety and Accessibility
Our adventures are:
- Team-led — your day, your pace, your outfits
- Outdoors and naturally socially distanced if needed
- Flexible — pause anytime
- Designed to be stroller and wheelchair friendly where possible
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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