What is the Liverpool outdoor escape game?
The Liverpool outdoor escape game is an escape room with the city as its box: the puzzles are hidden in real landmarks and you take them on from your phone, using logic and a careful look at what stands in front of you. Budget about 2 hours, of which 61 minutes go on walking the 4.4 km that joins the 10 stops, and start on whatever day you like.
The puzzles follow the city from its Victorian quarter down to the river: St George's Hall with its Corinthian columns, the Cavern Club on Mathew Street, the Liver Birds on the Three Graces, the warehouses of the Royal Albert Dock, the Chinese arch on Nelson Street and Liverpool Cathedral. No storyline joins them, each stands on its own, and three levels of hints are there when one refuses to give way. The centre is walkable, which is why Victorian civic pride, Beatles history and the old docks fit into a single afternoon.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 61 min · 4.4 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
At every landmark there is a puzzle to work out from the surroundings and clear thinking. Nothing has to be revised in advance.
Look closer
The clues are in the columns, the lions, the brickwork of the dock and the birds on the clock towers.
Walk
Google Maps leads you from stop to stop, 61 minutes of walking in total across about 4.4 km.
Take your time
No timer runs against you. Take a hint when you want one, stop for a pint on Mathew Street and finish later or 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 on a day out
Beatles landmarks and dockside puzzles give the group plenty to argue over between stops.
Couples
A walk from the museums down to the Mersey with a puzzle at each pause, and nothing hurrying you along.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 each use their own phone, so a work group only has to agree on a meeting point.
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 World Museum to Liverpool Cathedral
10 stops · about 61 min walking · start: World Museum · finish: Liverpool Cathedral
Outside World Museum on William Brown Street you open the first puzzle; the colonnade of St George's Hall and the concrete shaft of Radio City Tower follow, and Mathew Street brings the Cavern Club. On the waterfront, the Three Graces and Pier Head stand together, after which the warehouses of the Royal Albert Dock lead to Tate Liverpool. Away from the river come the Nordic Church and Chinatown, and the last puzzle sits on St James' Mount at Liverpool Cathedral. Daylight is the better choice, since the puzzles are outdoors and the Mersey wind is no help. Google Maps navigates, the order can be rearranged in the app, and no entry tickets are required.
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1World MuseumStart
World Museum stands on William Brown Street, named after the merchant who paid for the museum and library building that opened here in 1860. Its collections range from natural history and ancient Egypt to space, and it sits beside the Walker Art Gallery and the Central Library in a row of grand classical buildings.
2St George's Hall
St George's Hall was designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, who won the competition in his twenties, and completed by Charles Cockerell after his early death. Opened in 1854, it combined a concert hall and law courts behind rows of huge Corinthian columns, and stone lions guard the plateau on its Lime Street side.
3Radio City Tower (St John's Beacon)
Also known as St John's Beacon, this concrete tower rises about 138 metres above the city centre and opened in 1969. It was built as a ventilation shaft for the shopping centre below, with a revolving restaurant at the top, and today it houses the studios of the Radio City station.
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4The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club opened on Mathew Street in 1957 as a jazz club in a cellar, and the Beatles played here nearly 300 times between 1961 and 1963. Brian Epstein first saw them on this stage in November 1961. The original cellar was filled in during the 1970s, and today's club was rebuilt in the 1980s on much of the original site.
5The Three Graces
The Three Graces are the waterfront trio of the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building, completed between 1907 and 1917. Look up at the two Liver Birds on the clock towers of the Royal Liver Building: legend says that if they ever flew away, the city would cease to exist.
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6Pier Head
Pier Head is Liverpool's waterfront promenade on the River Mersey, where the Mersey Ferries leave for Birkenhead and Wallasey. Here you find the bronze statue of the four Beatles striding along the river, unveiled in 2015, the modern Museum of Liverpool and memorials to the city's seafarers.
7Tate Liverpool and the Royal Albert Dock
Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 in a converted warehouse of the Royal Albert Dock, as the first Tate gallery outside London. The dock itself was designed by Jesse Hartley and opened in 1846, and it was the first structure in Britain built only of cast iron, brick and stone, without structural timber, so that it could not burn.
8Nordic Church (Gustav Adolf's Church)
Gustav Adolf's Church, today the Nordic Church and Cultural Centre, opened in 1884 for the Scandinavian sailors and emigrants who passed through the port of Liverpool. It was an early work of the architect William Douglas Caröe, and its stepped brick gables give it a distinctly Scandinavian look.
9Chinatown
Liverpool's Chinatown is home to one of the oldest Chinese communities in Europe, which grew from seafarers who came with the shipping lines in the 19th century. Its entrance on Nelson Street is marked by a Chinese arch, made in Shanghai and put up in 2000, one of the largest of its kind outside China.
10Liverpool CathedralFinish
Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, the largest cathedral in Britain, was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, who won the competition in 1903 aged just 22. Building began in 1904 and was only completed in 1978, long after Scott's death in 1960. Scott also designed the red telephone box, and one of them stands inside the cathedral.
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