What is the Kraków outdoor escape game?
The Kraków outdoor escape game is an escape room held outdoors, with puzzles hidden at landmarks in the city centre and played on your phone. Across its 10 stops you work out one puzzle at each by reading the scene around you, and the whole route takes about 2 hours, including 47 minutes on foot over 3.8 km. You can begin on any day you like.
The puzzles sit near the Cloth Hall, St Mary's Basilica and Wawel Cathedral, and each one stands on its own, so there is no plot to follow. If you get stuck, three levels of hints are on offer. Kraków suits this format well because its Old Town is compact and largely car-free, which keeps the walk between stops pleasant.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 47 min · 3.8 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish
What you do during the escape game
Reason it out
At every stop the answer is in front of you. Look, connect what you see and follow the logic to the end. No prior knowledge is needed.
Look around
The clues are in the details of each place, such as the façades, the statues and the layout of the square.
Follow the map
Google Maps leads you from stop to stop, covering about 47 minutes of walking over 3.8 km in total.
Set your own pace
No countdown runs. Take a hint when you need one, stop for a break 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
Groups of friends
Each puzzle gives the group something to argue over before the next stop, and nobody has to know the city beforehand.
Couples
A shared task that keeps you talking as you move from one landmark to the next, with no clock hanging over you.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes it a simple option 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 the Town Hall Tower to the Avenue of Stars
10 stops · about 47 min walking · start: Town Hall Tower · finish: Avenue of Stars
The first puzzle is at the Town Hall Tower on the Main Market Square and the last one on the Avenue of Stars, with eight stops in between: the Cloth Hall, St Mary's Basilica, St Florian's Gate, the Barbican, Plac Szczepański, the Nicolaus Copernicus Statue, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul and Wawel Cathedral. Daylight is the best time to set off, since the puzzles are solved outdoors and weather matters. Google Maps guides you between stops, you can change the order in the app, and no entry tickets are needed for the puzzles.
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1Town Hall TowerStart
The Town Hall Tower is all that is left of Kraków's old town hall, which was pulled down in the 19th century. The Gothic tower leans slightly, and a pair of stone lions guards its entrance.
2Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)
The Cloth Hall stands in the middle of the Main Market Square and owes its present look to the Renaissance. In its 15th-century heyday merchants traded spices, silk, leather and wax here, and market stalls still fill its long central passage. A knife hanging in the passage is said to be the one used by the jealous brother in the legend of St Mary's towers.
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3St Mary's Basilica
St Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church built in the 14th century, and its taller tower reaches 80 metres. Every hour a trumpeter plays the hejnał from it, breaking off mid-note in memory of a watchman said to have been shot while sounding the alarm. Inside stands the high altar by Veit Stoss, carved between 1477 and 1489.
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4St Florian's Gate
St Florian's Gate, first mentioned in 1307, is the only one of Kraków's eight medieval city gates that was not pulled down in the 19th century. The 33.5-metre tower marks the start of the Royal Route, along which kings entered the city, and its south face shows a relief of St Florian.
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5Barbican
The Barbican is a round brick fortress outside St Florian's Gate, once linked to it by a long bridge across the moat. It guarded the main entrance to the city and, together with the gate and a stretch of walls, survived when most of the fortifications were demolished in the 19th century.
6Plac Szczepański
Plac Szczepański was created in the early 19th century after the medieval Church of St Stephen, which gave the square its name, was demolished. It is framed by Art Nouveau buildings such as the Palace of Art of 1901 and the Stary Theatre, and the fountain in the middle was added in 2010.
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7Nicolaus Copernicus Statue
This bronze statue honours Nicolaus Copernicus, who studied at the Kraków Academy, today's Jagiellonian University, in the 1490s. Made by Cyprian Godebski and unveiled in 1900, it first stood in the courtyard of the Collegium Maius and was moved to the Planty park beside the Collegium Novum in 1953. The astronomer holds up an astrolabe.
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8Church of Saints Peter and Paul
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul stands on Grodzka Street, the road kings followed up to Wawel, and was built for the Jesuits in the Baroque style. In front of it, statues of the apostles stand on pillars along the fence, below its pale stone façade.
9Wawel Cathedral
Wawel Cathedral was the coronation church of Poland's kings, and most of them are buried here. Look for the golden dome of the Sigismund Chapel on its side, and for the large old bones hanging at the entrance, said to belong to the Wawel dragon.
10Avenue of StarsFinish
Kraków's Avenue of Stars is a walk of fame modelled on the famous one in Hollywood. Star plaques along the walkway carry the names of well-known personalities, and it is fun to see how many of them you recognise.
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Anonymous (verified owner) –
gut, man sieht sehenswürdigkeiten der stadt
Xander –
Cool game! Outdoor adventure and interaction with the attractions. Very good job!