What is the Dallas outdoor escape game?
The Dallas outdoor escape game is an escape room taken out into the city: you play on your smartphone, and at each of the 10 stops a puzzle waits that you crack by studying the surroundings and thinking it through logically. Expect 54 minutes of walking and 3.8 km of city, all inside a window of roughly 2 hours.
Each puzzle stands on its own, so no storyline ties the stops together, and up to three levels of hints are available when you get stuck. Downtown suits the format: the route runs from a park built over a freeway through the Arts District and the West End, and the outside of each building and plaza is part of the challenge, from the cube-shaped Perot Museum to the bronze cattle drive at Pioneer Plaza.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 54 min · 3.8 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out the puzzle at every stop by observation and logic. Knowing Dallas beforehand is not needed.
Look around
The clues sit in the surroundings of each landmark, from the architecture to the open spaces around it.
Walk
Google Maps guides you from one stop to the next: about 54 minutes of walking over roughly 3.8 km.
Take your time
No countdown runs. Use a hint when you need one, stop for a coffee and carry on later or on another day.
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How it works
- Book online Choose the number of players. Your booking reference arrives by email straight away.
- Get the app Download the World City Trail app from the App Store or Google Play and enter your booking reference.
- Play when you like Start whenever you are ready, walk at your own pace and pause any time. No guide, no fixed schedule.
Who it suits
Friends
Every puzzle gives the group something to argue over, and nobody has to know the city in advance.
Couples
A challenge you tackle together that keeps the conversation going as you move between landmarks, with no clock to beat.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes the game easy to organise for colleagues.
Good to know
- Bring a charged smartphone with mobile data; a power bank helps.
- Best started in daylight, so you can see the details the puzzles ask about.
- No entry tickets needed: everything happens outside the buildings. Going inside is optional and paid separately.
- Family friendly; children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Not suitable for wheelchair users and difficult with strollers.
- Teams of up to 5 work best; bigger groups split into several teams, one ticket per player.
- Every purchase helps support stray cats and dogs in Greece.
Puzzle route: from Klyde Warren Park to Thanks-Giving Square
10 stops · about 54 min walking · start: Klyde Warren Park · finish: Thanks-Giving Square
You start at Klyde Warren Park and finish at Thanks-Giving Square, with eight stops in between: the Dallas Museum of Art, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the Dallas World Aquarium, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dealey Plaza, John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Pioneer Plaza and the AT&T Discovery District. Daylight makes the best start, because the puzzles are solved outdoors. Google Maps guides you between stops, you can change the order in the app, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Klyde Warren ParkStart
This park of about five acres was built on a deck over the sunken Woodall Rodgers Freeway and opened in October 2012, reconnecting Uptown with the Arts District. Its lawns and gardens sit above a busy road, so you can walk over the traffic below.
2Dallas Museum of Art
Founded in 1903, the Dallas Museum of Art moved in 1984 into a building by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the first major building of the new Arts District. Its collection covers art from around the world and across thousands of years, from ancient Mediterranean pieces to American and contemporary works.
3Perot Museum of Nature and Science
The Perot Museum opened in December 2012 in a cube-shaped building by Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects, about 14 storeys high. It honours Margot and Ross Perot, whose children made the founding gift, and a glass-encased escalator juts diagonally out of the façade.
4Dallas World Aquarium
The Dallas World Aquarium opened in October 1992 in a converted 1920s warehouse near the Historic West End. Its exhibits include a rainforest modelled on South America's Orinoco region and the Cloud Forest Trek, which uses a large LED screen to extend the jungle setting.
5Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
This museum, founded by Holocaust survivors living in Dallas, moved into its present building in the West End in September 2019. Inside, visitors walk through a restored Nazi-era boxcar, and the exhibits go on to other genocides and the American civil rights movement.
6Dealey Plaza
Dealey Plaza was completed in 1940 near the place where John Neely Bryan founded Dallas in 1841, and it is named after George Bannerman Dealey, publisher of The Dallas Morning News. President Kennedy was shot here on November 22, 1963, and the former Texas School Book Depository on its edge now houses the Sixth Floor Museum.
7John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza
One block east of Dealey Plaza stands the memorial to President Kennedy that Philip Johnson designed for no fee, dedicated in 1970. It is a roofless square room about 30 feet high, its walls made of 72 white concrete columns, with a plain block of dark granite inside that bears his name in gold letters.
8Pioneer Plaza
Pioneer Plaza opened in 1994 with a bronze cattle drive by the Texas sculptor Robert Summers: 49 longhorn steers and three trail riders on horseback. It recalls the Shawnee Trail, along which cattle were driven north through the Dallas area in the 19th century, and it lies next to the old Pioneer Park Cemetery.
9AT&T Discovery District
In 2019 AT&T opened the blocks around its downtown headquarters as the AT&T Discovery District, an open-air plaza with restaurants, seating and public events. Its best-known feature is a media wall about 104 feet tall that wraps around the corner of a building and shows digital art.
10Thanks-Giving SquareFinish
This small downtown park was designed by Philip Johnson and opened in 1977 as a place where people of all faiths can give thanks. Its chapel rises in a 90-foot spiral, and inside, the Glory Window by the French artist Gabriel Loire, designed in 1976, fills the space with coloured light.
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