Real-life hide-and-seek app
Hide-and-seek for the whole neighbourhood.
Friends split into hunters and runners and play on foot across real streets. The phone keeps the clock, sends the pings and calls the winner.
- 3 to 150 players
- The host pays once. Friends play free.
Until 30 November
Be OG.
Get hosting by 30 November and keep the OG badge next to your name for good.
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So farLive
Out on real streets, worldwide.
- 26,322
sign-ups
- 699
rounds played
- 4,367km
covered on foot in rounds
- 51
countries have started a game
Counted from SCRAM’s servers on . Sign-ups are accounts, not people who’ve played a round.
Leaderboards
Climb the boards.
Every round scores points. See where you rank in your country and the world, a month at a time.
Runners
+1 every 3 min free
+10 never caughtHunters
+3 for each tag
+10 clean sweep
season ends
How it works
Four steps. Then run.
Host. Set the arena.
Drop a zone on the map, pick the rules and send your friends the invite link.
Join. Pick a side.
Tap the link or type the six-character code. Choose Hunter, Runner or Random.
Scatter. Run.
Runners take the head start and hide. Hunters wait it out. No peeking.
Hunt. You’re it.
Pings show hunters where the runners were. Tag them in person, and the runner confirms it.
Two teams
Pick a side.
Hunters
You’re it.
You never see runners live. Every few minutes a ping shows where each one was, and you close in on foot. Your fellow hunters show up live.
Win: tag every runner before time runs out.
Runners
Run.
Take the head start, hide inside the zone and keep moving between pings. You see your own team live.
Win: anyone still free when time runs out.
Features
The phone referees.
Pings, not live tracking.
Hunters get snapshots, so they have to guess where runners went instead of following a dot.
Optional shrinking zone.
The host can have the zone close in on a schedule, down to the final size they pick, with the next edge shown before each shrink. Stay outside for more than 30 seconds and hunters see you live until you’re back in. Stay out for 2 minutes and you count as tagged.
Team Radio.
Chat only your team sees. Hunters can talk too, with push-to-talk voice.
Your team, live.
You always see your own teammates on the map. Hunters see runners only in pings. Runners still in the game never see hunters.
Tagged? Keep playing.
Depending on the host’s rules, watch the rest of the round or switch sides and join the hunters.
Works in your pocket.
Pings, zone warnings and tags arrive as alerts, even with your phone locked. On Android they only buzz. On iPhone, flip to silent so a ring doesn’t give away your hiding spot.
The host sets the rules.
Rounds from 5 minutes to 3 hours. Pings every 1–30 minutes, or none. Up to 30 minutes’ head start. A zone from a few blocks to 3 km across, shrinking on a timer or not.
Android now. iPhone soon.iPhone and Android.
At least 3 players. The more, the better.
Privacy
No peeking at your friends’ phones.
Location only during a round.
Sharing starts at “Let’s go” and stops when the round ends or you’re tagged, unless the host has tagged runners join the hunters.
The other team doesn’t see you live.
Hunters see runners only in pings, and runners still in the game never see hunters. The exceptions: a runner outside the zone for more than 30 seconds shows up live, and tagged runners who are out can watch everyone live (in games hosted on older versions of SCRAM, a minute behind or not at all, as the host chooses).
Your email is just your way back in.
It’s how you sign in, with a code we email you or, on Android, your Google account. We send anything else only if you tick the box, and other players never see it. The privacy policy has the rest.
Do I need to pay to play?
No. Downloading SCRAM and joining a friend’s game is free. Hosting your own games is a one-time purchase, with no subscription and no ads.
How many people can play?
At least 3, on their own phones, and up to 150 in one round. There’s at least one hunter for every 10 players, and never more hunters than runners. Pick Random and SCRAM fills whichever team needs you.
Can I try it on my own?
Yes. On the home screen, tap Try a demo round to play against bots on your phone.
Is SCRAM on iPhone?
Yes. Get it free on the App Store. iPhones and Android phones join the same games.
Not yet. It’s coming to the App Store soon. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day it lands.
How old do you need to be?
At least 13, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for using an app like SCRAM without a parent’s permission (in some countries it’s 16). If you’re under 18, you need a parent or guardian’s permission.
Bring snacks. Wear sneakers.
Free to download and free to join. Only the host pays, once, to unlock hosting.
No group yet? Open the app and try a demo round on your own first.
Now on iPhone
One game, any phone.
iPhones and Android phones join the same games, with the same code.