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Activities are fun minigames by which you can participate in things you can't normally do in the game. You can find them throughout Tyria, especially during holidays.

— Level 37 rewards.

An activity is an instanced mini-game designed to fit in with the local area. They provide an identical challenge to characters of all levels, and usually switch out weapon skills for new ones specific to the activity. While most involve some sort of PvP, not all involve player competition and can be a fun activity to do alone or with others (depending on the activity). Daily Activity Participation is a periodically scheduled Daily achievement.

ArenaNet and the Official Wiki also use the word activities in a general sense, particularly with reference to various dynamic events, adventures and other attractions that are part of festivals.

Daily activities

The current daily activity, which may be displayed by hovering over the map icon, consists of four activities:

• Crab Toss
• Sanctum Sprint
• Southsun Survival
• Keg Brawl

Current cycle

Day of week	Activity
Monday	Crab Toss
Tuesday	Sanctum Sprint
Wednesday	Southsun Survival
Thursday	Crab Toss
Friday	Sanctum Sprint
Saturday	Southsun Survival
Sunday	Keg Brawl

Activities change with the daily reset at 00:00 UTC.
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Getting there

Although players may play an activity an unlimited number of times, daily activity credit is available only once per day. Accessing an activity is done by talking to any of the following NPCs:

NPC	Area	Zone
Activity Lead Cassi	Grand Piazza	Lion's Arch
Baasim	Lily of the Elon	Crystal Oasis
Brewer	Lake Mourn	Hoelbrak
Celestial Challenge Attendant	The Crown Pavilion The Upper City	Divinity's Reach Divinity's Reach
Edinna Linhoft	Havoc's Heir	Gendarran Fields
Ela	Champion's Rest	Heart of the Mists
Finolla	The Crown Pavilion	Divinity's Reach
Guest Elder	-	Thousand Seas Pavilion
Hawker Annika	Lava Lounge	Ember Bay
Nareesa	-	Armistice Bastion
Sanctuary Krewe	-	Mistlock Sanctuary
Zephyrite [Aspect Arena]	Bazaar Docks	Labyrinthine Cliffs
Zephyrite [Sanctum Sprint]	Bazaar Docks	Labyrinthine Cliffs

Activity Lead Cassi is the only activity NPC, who is not in a lounge, that grants access to all activities.

Karlotta and the Brewer do not provide direct access to the other activities, if the activity they are near is not the daily one.

List of activities

A Target Shoot-out

Achievements

These activities are associated with one or more achievements.

• Belcher's Bluff (anywhere, via Belcher's Bluff Kits) and the home instance located in most cities.
• Costume Brawl (anywhere, via various tonics, Boxes o' Fun, or certain toys)
• Crab Toss (Lion's Arch rotation) (Southsun Cove)
• Keg Brawl (Lion's Arch rotation) (Hoelbrak)
• Sanctum Sprint(Lion's Arch rotation)
• Southsun Survival (Lion's Arch rotation) (Southsun Cove)

Festival activities

These activities are only available during their respective holidays:

Lunar New Year

• Celestial Challenge
• Dragon Ball Arena

Halloween

• Lunatic Inquisition
• Mad King's Clock Tower — Only counts once the timer ends. Stopped Clock Tower doesn't count.
• Reaper's Rumble

Wintersday

• Bell Choir Ensemble
• Snowball Mayhem
• Toypocalypse
• Winter Wonderland

Scavenger hunts

These scavenger hunts grant explorer achievements upon their first completion:

• Cleaning Up the Neighborhood (Ebonhawke)
• Diving (Various Locations)
• Marriner Plaque (mostly Lion's Arch)
• Speedy Reader (Ebonhawke)
• Coin Collector: Prospect Valley (Dry Top)
• Coin Collector: Uplands (Dry Top)
• Coin Collector: Challenger Cliffs (Dry Top)
• Lost Badges (The Silverwastes)
• Go for the Gold (The Silverwastes)
• Lion's Arch Exterminator (Lion's Arch)

Other types of games

These mini-games are permanent part of Guild Wars 2, but do not count for the daily activities or any other achievements:

• Cattlepult betting (Diessa Plateau)
• Golem Chess

Activity items

These items can be used anywhere to begin an activity.

• Box o' Fun and Super Adventure Box o' Fun
• Belcher's Bluff Kit and Bottomless Belcher's Bluff Kit

Historical and recurring activities

These activities were first available during their respective in-game release(s). Some of them become available again later, for example as part of the daily activity rotation.

Activity	Type	Location	Introduced	Appearances	Currently available
Aspect Arena	Team-based PvP	Labyrinthine Cliffs	July 23, 2013	Cutthroat Politics Festival of the Four Winds	Reintroduced for Festival of the Four Winds 2018.
Basket Brawl	Team-based PvP	Lion's Arch	August 23, 2016	March 28, 2017
Beacons of Kryta	Scavenger hunt (timed)	Divinity's Reach	August 06, 2013	Queen's Jubilee
Bell Choir Ensemble	Non-combat, musical activity	Lion's Arch	December 14, 2012	Wintersday: The Wondrous Workshop of Toymaker Tixx A Very Merry Wintersday	During Wintersday.
Crab Toss	Free-for-all PvP	Southsun Cove	May 14, 2013	The Secret of Southsun Last Stand at Southsun	On daily rotation.†
Dragon Ball Arena	Team-based PvP	Lion's Arch	June 11, 2013	Dragon Bash Sky Pirates of Tyria Lunar New Year	During Lunar New Year.
Keg Brawl	Team-based PvP	Hoelbrak			On daily rotation.†
Lessons from the Sky	Scavenger hunt	Labyrinthine Cliffs	July 09, 2013	Bazaar of the Four Winds Cutthroat Politics
Lunatic Inquisition	Team-based PvP	Mad King's Realm	October 22, 2012	Shadow of the Mad King Blood and Madness	During Halloween.
Moa Racing	Betting	Lion's Arch Hoelbrak	June 11, 2013		Removed with Escape from Lion's Arch. Reintroduced for Dragon Bash 2019.
Reaper's Rumble	Team-based PvP	Mad King's Realm	October 22, 2012	Shadow of the Mad King	During Halloween.
Sanctum Sprint	Racing game	Labyrinthine Cliffs	July 09, 2013	Bazaar of the Four Winds Cutthroat Politics	On daily rotation.†
Snowball Mayhem	Team-based PvP	Lion's Arch	December 14, 2012	Wintersday: The Wondrous Workshop of Toymaker Tixx A Very Merry Wintersday	During Wintersday.
Southsun Survival	Free-for-all PvP	Southsun Cove	July 23, 2013	Cutthroat Politics	On daily rotation.†
Toypocalypse	Tower defense	Lion's Arch	December 14, 2012	Wintersday: The Wondrous Workshop of Toymaker Tixx A Very Merry Wintersday	During Wintersday.

^† The four activities that are part of the daily rotation can be started by speaking with one of the activity NPCs marked with the icon.

Notes

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Minigame.

Bug:

A guardian's aegis is triggered within several activities even when it is not visible on the guardian. This disrupts several activities as the aegis may absorb hits even from friendly players (e.g.: Keg disappears in Keg brawl, Crab is absorbed and disappears in Crab Toss).

• Formerly, the name of the activity NPC in Lion's Arch varied with the activity.
• Only the daily activity that is on rotation for the day counts towards the Daily Activity Participation.
  • Some festival activities, such as Bell Choir and Toypocalypse, count for Daily Activity Participation.
• If you are in an activity when the day swaps you can finish the game, but upon completion you are kicked to whatever map you were in prior.

Trivia

• Before launch, ArenaNet suggested that they had plans for as many as 30 activities or mini-games, but only a few have been implemented. Previously mentioned ideas include: Archery/Target Range., Bar Brawl, Polymock, Smash 'Em Up., and an unknown activity that involves shooting mini golems that explode. With the introduction of Heart of Thorns, some of these ideas seem to be have been implemented in the Adventures that players have access to upon completing various events or reaching areas in the Heart of Maguuma.

References

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Activities

Daily activities	Crab Toss Sanctum Sprint Southsun Survival Keg Brawl
Historical	Basket Brawl
Festival activities
Lunar New Year	Dragon Ball Arena Celestial Challenge
Festival of the Four Winds	Aspect Arena
Halloween	Lunatic Inquisition Mad King's Clock Tower & Stopped Clock Tower Reaper's Rumble
Wintersday	Bell Choir Ensemble Winter Wonderland Snowball Mayhem Toypocalypse