A Main Street game, not a coupon book.
A downtown scavenger hunt that walks people through your members' front doors. Every stop is a photo, video or trivia challenge at a real business, and the prizes get claimed at the register. Build it yourself, or let our team build it for you.
The Downtown Dayton Adventure turned a whole downtown into a one-day game.
Read the Downtown Dayton storyEverything a paper passport does, minus the paper.
Passport programs work because they give people a reason to walk in. Roamli keeps that reason and drops the stamps, the printing and the raffle box.
Every member becomes a stop worth walking to.
Put each participating business on the map as a challenge. Dayton's hunts had players winning a round of Mario Kart at an esports bar, guessing the number of cocoa beans in a jar at a coffee roaster and counting the cats on a mural on 5th Street. That's the difference between a stamp at the door and ten minutes inside the shop.
Walk into the next members' meeting with receipts.
Your dashboard shows every participant, their points and submissions, and how many submissions each stop received, so you can show each member how many players completed the challenge at their door. Reward redemptions are counted too. Afterward, download every photo and video in one zip and hand merchants a folder of content their own customers made.
- Corner Bakery & Co.184
- Riverside Records156
- 5th Street Mural142
- The Roastery128
- Main St. Games110
Rewards: prizes players claim at a real counter.
Points keep score. Rewards give people a reason to walk somewhere, go inside, and come back. Here is one reward from the Roamli Scramble in Chicago, from the moment a shop offered it to the moment it was redeemed.
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A local business offers a prize.
Ava's Italian Ice put up $2 off an Italian ice and a BOGO flight, only in person. You add a reward once to your library and reuse it across events.
- A code, a link or a personal message
- One shared code, or a pool of unique codes imported from a spreadsheet
- A cap on how many players can earn it

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Players see it, and go after it.
Every reward shows on the event's reward board with a progress bar, so players know exactly what they're playing for and how close they are. A prize at the ice cream shop turns its challenges into the ones everyone wants to finish next.
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It unlocks on the spot.
The moment a player hits the goal, the reward unlocks automatically, with a scratch-off ticket to reveal the prize. Nobody waits for a raffle weeks later. Every reward they earn stays in My Rewards, across every event.
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They walk in and claim it.
The player shows their phone at the counter and staff tap Redeem. It's stamped with the date, so every prize is used exactly once. Nothing to install at the register, and no paper to collect.
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You see exactly what it drove.
Each reward shows how many were claimed, allocated and still free, and warns you before a code pool runs dry. Those redemption counts are real visits to a real business, a number you can hand to a sponsor or a member.
Four ways to unlock a reward
- A points total Reach 100 points and unlock $5 off at any participating shop.
- Challenges approved Get 10 shop challenges approved and win a free hot chocolate.
- A specific stop Finish the bookstore challenge and get a bookmark and 10% off.
- A leaderboard finish The top 3 teams win gift cards donated by local businesses.
Supercharge your event.
Add one prize and the whole game changes, for the people playing and for you.
For players
- Real stakesA prize on the line turns a stroll into a race.
- The unlock momentThe reward pops up on the spot, with a scratch-off reveal.
- Something to take homeA free scoop, a discount or a gift card, saved in My Rewards.
For your event
- Foot trafficPrizes are claimed at the counter, so players step inside.
- Proof for sponsorsEvery redemption is a visit you can count.
- Repeat visitsRewards bring players back through your doors.
Real districts. Real turnout.
We're so excited to have people come out and explore downtown Dayton businesses, landmarks, and more during the Downtown Adventure. It's a chance for people to come out and rediscover their favorite spots throughout the city or explore new businesses and sights that have opened since their last visit.
across 140+ businesses in a single-day Downtown Adventure, at $0 staff cost to host.
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and nearly 300 submissions in a four-hour hop during Black Business Month.
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of murals, rainbow crosswalks and Legacy Walk plaques in a self-guided #WalkWithPride tour.
Read the storyWhy district hunts run better on Roamli.
It all comes back to one thing: more people inside more of your members' shops.
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Foot traffic through members' doors
Every stop is a challenge inside a real business, so a visit means ten minutes in the shop, not a stamp at the door.
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Prizes claimed at the register
Rewards unlock on the spot and get redeemed at a member's counter, so every win walks someone back inside.
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Numbers you can hand the board
Players, submissions per stop, redemption counts and a zip of every photo, ready for the next members' meeting.
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One link, no app
A QR code on every storefront poster, and players join in their phone's browser with nothing to install.
One platform, a whole year of reasons to come downtown.
Run one flagship day or a new theme every season. Events are unlimited on Creator and Creator Pro.
Small Business Saturday
A shop-local hunt across every participating storefront, with prizes redeemed that same weekend.
See the playbookHoliday stroll
Window displays, hidden ornaments and a "find the reindeer" stop at every block, all through December.
Restaurant & brewery trail
A tasting passport for restaurant week or a brewery district, with a trivia question behind every bar.
Art & mural walk
Murals, plaques and public art as a year-round self-guided tour, like Northalsted's.
Play Northalsted's tourGrand-opening crawl
Introduce the businesses that opened this year, the way the Downtown Dayton Adventure does each year.
Summer series quest
A game layer on your concert nights or festival weekends that sends the crowd into shops between sets.
From member list to game day in four steps.
Do it all yourself in the builder, or hand any step to our team.
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Step 1
Map your merchants
Send us your participating businesses, or drop them on the map yourself. Each one becomes a stop.
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Step 2
Write the challenges
A photo with the owner, a trivia question about the building, a video of the house specialty. We can write them for you.
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Step 3
Share one code
Every event gets a link, a QR code and a Player Guide page. Players join in their phone's browser, with nothing to install.
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Step 4
Play, redeem, report
Review submissions as they arrive, announce winners minutes after it ends and download the recap for your members.
Plans from $49/mo, or we build it.
Published prices, no per-visitor fees and no year-long app project.
Build it yourself
Use our builder to create, launch and monitor your event yourself. Add your challenges, set your start and end times, share one link, and you're live.
Ready-to-Go
We adapt one of our starting formats (holiday office hunt, downtown shop-local, orientation week, art walk) to your place and your people.
The Roamli Touch
Want our team to handle design, setup and launch? Or just some extra help and peace of mind? We design, build and run it with you.
What district directors ask us.
Each answer opens the page with the full story.
How much work is it for our merchants?
Very little. A business agrees to be a stop and can offer a prize. Staff tap Redeem on the player's phone; there's no hardware to learn. Dayton charged businesses nothing to take part.
See how prizes workDo players need to download an app?
No. They open a link, scan a QR code or type an event code into their phone's browser. Teammates can follow along without an account.
See how players joinWhat numbers will we have for our board?
Every participant with their points, submissions per stop, reward redemption counts and a zip of every photo and video.
Read the Dayton storyCan it run all season instead of one day?
Yes. Set any start and end date, or leave a self-guided tour open year-round, like Northalsted's art walk.
See Northalsted's tourCan you build it for us?
Yes. Send us your member list and we'll map the stops, write the challenges and be your point person through game day.
See servicesCan local sponsors be part of it?
Yes. Almost anything in the game can carry a sponsor's name, from a stop to a prize, and every team that completes a sponsor stop leaves a photo, video or answer as proof.
See sponsor packagesEverything else Roamli can do
Challenges, live leaderboards, rewards, messaging, submission review, branding and player onboarding, all on one platform.
See all featuresTell us about your district.
How many businesses, what season, what you want people to discover. We'll come back with ideas, a rough plan and a price.
Start the conversation
Let's sketch your first district hunt.
A 30-minute call. Bring your member list and we'll map the first stops live.
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