What is the Monaco outdoor escape game?
The Monaco outdoor escape game takes an escape room into the old town. You play on your phone, and at each of the 10 stops a puzzle is hidden in the surroundings, cracked through careful observation and logic. Allow about 2 hours, including 22 minutes of walking over 2 km, and begin whenever it suits you.
Every puzzle belongs to a single place, such as the Prince's Palace, the cathedral or the Oceanographic Museum, and stands on its own, so there is no storyline to follow. Stuck? Each puzzle carries clues on three levels at the outside, handed over one step at a time. Monaco-Ville is compact and its lanes are mostly free of traffic, so the stops sit close together and the game feels like one continuous stroll.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 22 min · 2 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out each puzzle by paying attention to what surrounds you. You do not need any prior knowledge of Monaco.
Look around
The clues are in the setting of each landmark, so study the square as much as the building itself.
Navigate
Google Maps guides you from stop to stop, covering about 22 minutes of walking over 2 km.
Set your pace
No countdown runs in the background. Pause for a coffee, ask for a hint if you need one, and carry on 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
The puzzles give everyone something to argue over at the next stop, and nobody has to know Monaco beforehand.
Couples
A shared task that keeps you talking as you walk between landmarks, with no clock to watch.
Team building
Colleagues can take it on together, because at every stop the group has a fresh puzzle to solve.
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 Prince's Palace to the panoramic view
10 stops · about 22 min walking · start: Prince's Palace of Monaco · finish: Panoramic view of Monaco
Your first puzzle is at the Prince's Palace and the final one at the panoramic view of Monaco, with eight landmarks between them: the Girl on a Chair sculpture, the Palace of Justice, Saint Nicholas Cathedral, the Chapel of Mercy, the Post Office, the Saint-Martin Gardens, the Oceanographic Museum and the Chapel of the Visitation. Daylight is the best time to set off, since the game happens outdoors and the weather plays a real part. Google Maps leads you between stops, the app lets you change the order, and the puzzles require no entry tickets.
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1Prince's Palace of MonacoStart
The official residence of the Prince of Monaco stands on the Rock, where the Genoese built a fortress in 1191. In 1297 François Grimaldi is said to have captured it disguised as a Franciscan monk, which is why two monks holding swords appear on the Grimaldi coat of arms. The Prince's Carabiniers guard the entrance.
2Girl on a Chair sculpture
In the lanes of the old town you meet a sculpture of a girl sitting on a chair. It is one of the many works of public art that Monaco has placed in its streets and gardens, and its everyday pose makes a playful contrast with the palaces and churches around it.
3Palace of Justice
Monaco's law courts sit in this stone building on Rue Colonel Bellando de Castro, in the old town on the Rock. It was built in the early 20th century, and its solemn façade of dressed stone suits its role as the seat of justice of the Principality.
4Saint Nicholas Cathedral
Monaco Cathedral, officially dedicated to Our Lady Immaculate, was begun in 1875 in white stone from La Turbie on the site of a 13th-century church of Saint Nicholas, which still gives it its popular name. Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace, who married here in 1956, are buried inside.
5Chapel of Mercy
The Chapelle de la Miséricorde was built in the 17th century for the Brotherhood of the Black Penitents, a lay confraternity devoted to charity. It keeps a wooden statue of the dead Christ attributed to the Monaco-born sculptor François-Joseph Bosio, which is carried through the old town in the Good Friday procession.
6Post Office
The small post office of the old town is a reminder that Monaco, one of the smallest countries in the world, issues its own postage stamps, as it has done since 1885. Monegasque stamps, often showing the princely family and events in the Principality, are prized by collectors.
7Saint-Martin Gardens
These shady gardens cling to the cliffs on the seaward side of the Rock, with paths winding between pines, agaves and other Mediterranean plants. A bronze statue shows Prince Albert I, the seafaring prince who founded the Oceanographic Museum, dressed as a sailor.
8Oceanographic Museum
Prince Albert I, a pioneer of ocean science, founded this museum, which opened in 1910 in a monumental building rising straight out of the cliff above the sea. Its façade drops about 85 metres to the water, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau was its director from 1957 to 1988.
9Chapel of the Visitation
This small chapel on Place de la Visitation, a quiet square on the Rock, dates from the 17th century. Its name refers to the Visitation, the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, and its baroque façade shows the style that reached Monaco from nearby Italy.
10Panoramic view of MonacoFinish
From the edge of the Rock you look down over Port Hercule, lined with yachts, and across to the buildings of Monte-Carlo climbing the hillside. The view shows how densely this small state, squeezed between the mountains and the sea, has been built.
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