Amazing Race-style event Hustle Urban Adventure Challenge heads to Canberra

Fully Rad Adventures is bringing its Hustle Urban Adventure Challenge to the capital next month and will see teams of two race around the city completing challenges and puzzles.

"It will be a unique way to explore Canberra city and it will probably reveal some hidden gems and secrets there as well," event director Richard Old says.

"It's kind of deliberately designed for visitors to come and get a chance to experience an area differently but also it's a way for locals to go 'wow, I didn't know that was there' or get a chance to enjoy their city with a different kind of atmosphere."

Teams will have to answer questions about known and secret landmarks, find hidden clues, take photos of themselves at certain landmarks and complete physical and brainpower activities.

But it won't be the fastest team that wins but rather the smartest.

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The Hustle starts with a list of cryptic questions and a map. Teams then decode the clues and plot their route with the aim to finish before the time cut off.

"They only have six hours to collect points and answer questions and get selfies so they have to strategise how fast they can move and how long it will take. It is lots of fun though - it's not super serious," Old says.

The Hustle has already been custom fitted for events in Mandurah, Western Australia and Port Stephens, New South Wales where contestants took on challenges such as a blindfold maze and a giant hoopla game.

However, the capital is the first major city to be taken over by the urban adventure, and this time will have a distinctly Canberra feel to it.

Old comes from an event and tourism background and wanted to get local businesses involved with the event.

"It will be an event based within the Canberra city itself but then what we do is give it an added flavour of having them connect with businesses as well, so they'll interact with businesses - they'll either have to find something in a shop window or they'll have to go into the business itself and perhaps complete a challenge that's centred around that particular business," he says.

"For example ... we've been talking to some of the outdoor adventure shops in Braddon and one of the challenges is most likely going to be a team coming in to either set up a tent or find a particular tent and get a team selfie in the tent.

"So there's a whole range of different activities planned."