What is the Munich outdoor escape game?
The Munich outdoor escape game swaps the locked door of an escape room for the city's squares: at each of the 10 landmarks a puzzle opens on your phone, and you solve it by observing the place and following the logic, with no prior knowledge needed. Plan about 2 hours, 60 minutes of it walking across 4.5 km, on whichever day you choose.
Puzzles sit on the Greek-style Königsplatz, beside the obelisk on Karolinenplatz, on Odeonsplatz with the Feldherrnhalle, under the twin towers of the Frauenkirche, on Marienplatz below the Glockenspiel and among the stalls of the Viktualienmarkt. Each stands alone, so the puzzles can be taken in any order, and three levels of hints are built in. The old town is flat and largely pedestrianised, which makes the walk between them easy.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 60 min · 4.5 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish
What you do on the escape game
Decode
A puzzle at every landmark, solved by observing the surroundings and following the logic. Nothing has to be known in advance.
Look at the detail
Inscriptions, towers, columns, reliefs and market signs hold the clues, all of them out on the street.
Walk the old town
Google Maps guides you between landmarks: 60 minutes of walking spread over 4.5 km.
Take your time
No countdown runs. Pull up a hint, stop at the Viktualienmarkt for something to eat, continue 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
Ten puzzles keep a group arguing between squares, and nobody needs to have grown up in Munich.
Couples
A puzzle to solve together at each stop, on a route you are free to walk slowly.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 each play on their own phone, so a company group runs as several teams on the same route.
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 Königsplatz to the Isartor
10 stops · about 60 min walking · start: Königsplatz · finish: Isartor
The first puzzle waits on Königsplatz in the museum quarter and the last at the Isartor. Between them the route runs along Brienner Straße past Karolinenplatz to Odeonsplatz and Max-Joseph-Platz by the Residenz, then into the old town for the Frauenkirche, St Michael's Church and Marienplatz, and on through Sendlinger Straße to the Asamkirche and the Viktualienmarkt. Start in daylight, because everything is solved outdoors and rain or wind slow the game. Google Maps navigates, the stop order changes in the app, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1KönigsplatzStart
King Ludwig I had this square laid out in the spirit of ancient Greece, planned by Karl von Fischer and completed by Leo von Klenze. The Glyptothek and the Propylaea gate, finished in 1862, frame it. The Nazis paved it with granite slabs in 1935 for their rallies, and its 19th-century look was only restored from the late 1980s.
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2Karolinenplatz
This round square on Brienner Straße is named after Queen Caroline, wife of King Maximilian I Joseph. At its centre stands a 29-metre black obelisk by Leo von Klenze, erected in 1833 in memory of the more than 30,000 Bavarian soldiers who died in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812.
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3Odeonsplatz
On this square, laid out by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I, Friedrich von Gärtner's Feldherrnhalle copies the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. Opposite rises the yellow baroque Theatine Church, begun in 1663 in thanks for the birth of the heir Max Emanuel, and in 1923 Hitler's putsch was stopped by the police here.
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4Max-Joseph-Platz
The square in front of the Residenz, the former royal palace, is framed by the National Theatre, home of the Bavarian State Opera, opened in 1818. Leo von Klenze modelled the Königsbau wing of the Residenz on the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. In the middle sits King Maximilian I Joseph, a bronze by Christian Daniel Rauch and unveiled in 1835.
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5Frauenkirche
Munich's cathedral was begun in 1468 under the master builder Jörg von Halsbach and built of brick, because there was no stone quarry nearby. Its twin towers, almost 99 metres high, received their rounded domes in 1525 and became the symbol of the city. Legend says a dark footprint in the entrance hall was left by the devil.
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6St Michael's Church
Duke William V built this Jesuit church between 1583 and 1597 as a centre of the Counter-Reformation, and it is the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. Between its two entrances a bronze Archangel Michael by Hubert Gerhard fights a demon. The crypt holds the tomb of King Ludwig II.
7Marienplatz
Munich's main square takes its name from the Marian Column, erected in 1638 in thanks that the city had survived the Swedish occupation in the Thirty Years' War. The neo-Gothic New Town Hall fills the north side, and its Glockenspiel, with 43 bells and 32 life-size figures, re-enacts a ducal wedding of 1568 and the Coopers' Dance.
8Asamkirche
The brothers Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam built this small church of St John of Nepomuk between 1733 and 1746 as their private church, right next to their own house. Its façade, only about eight metres wide, fits into the row of houses on Sendlinger Straße and rises from rough rock formations.
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9Viktualienmarkt
King Maximilian I Joseph moved Munich's food market here from Marienplatz in 1807, because the old market had become too small. Its stalls sell fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat and flowers, and fountains honour Munich folk entertainers such as Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt.
10IsartorFinish
The Isar Gate dates from 1337 and was part of Munich's second city wall, on the road leading to the river Isar. A fresco painted by Bernhard von Neher in 1835 shows Emperor Louis the Bavarian returning in triumph from the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322. Its towers now house a museum about the comedians Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt.
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