What is the Oslo outdoor escape game?
The Oslo outdoor escape game is an escape room with the walls taken away: every one of the 10 landmarks on the route hides a puzzle that you open on your phone and crack by observing what surrounds you and reasoning it through. Count on roughly 2 hours, including 60 minutes of walking over 4.7 km, and start on the day you choose.
Puzzles sit at the bronze Tiger outside the Central Station, at Oslo Cathedral, under the Freia clock at Egertorget, at the Storting with its stone lions, at City Hall by the harbour and among the Vigeland sculptures in Frogner Park. They are independent, so an unsolved one never stops the route, and three levels of hints are available. Oslo carries the format well: Karl Johans gate runs nearly the whole way from station to palace.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 60 min · 4.7 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Crack the puzzle
Each landmark hands you a question answered by what is in front of you. Logic and a careful look are all it takes.
Study the detail
Doors, reliefs, lions, clocks and sculptures hold the clues, which is why nothing has to be solved indoors.
Keep walking
Google Maps handles the route between landmarks: 60 minutes of walking over 4.7 km in total.
No clock, no rush
Nothing is counting down. Ask for a hint, break by the harbour, carry on an hour 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
A puzzle at every landmark gives the group something to argue about, and local knowledge is no advantage.
Couples
A shared riddle to turn over while you walk, with nothing timing you.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 follow the game on their own phones, which makes several parallel teams easy to set up.
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 Tiger to Frogner Park
10 stops · about 60 min walking · start: The Tiger (Tigeren) · finish: Frogner Park (Vigeland Park)
The first puzzle stands at the bronze Tiger on Jernbanetorget and the last among the Vigeland sculptures in Frogner Park. Between them come Oslo Cathedral, the Freia clock at Egertorget, the Storting, Oslo City Hall, the Nobel Peace Center, the National Theatre, the Royal Palace and Uranienborg Church. Set out while it is light, because the puzzles are solved in the street and rain or wind make the walk harder. Google Maps navigates, the app lets you reorder the stops, and no entry tickets are involved.
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1The Tiger (Tigeren)Start
The Tiger is a bronze sculpture by Elena Engelsen on Jernbanetorget, the square in front of Oslo Central Station. About 4.5 metres long, it was given to the city for its 1000th anniversary in 2000 and refers to Oslo's old nickname, Tigerstaden (the Tiger City), which is traced back to a poem by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
2Oslo Cathedral
Oslo Cathedral was consecrated in 1697, and the royal family and the government use it for their great public occasions: King Harald V and Queen Sonja married here in 1968. Look at the bronze west doors made by Dagfin Werenskiold in 1938; inside are Emanuel Vigeland's stained-glass windows and Hugo Lous Mohr's painted ceiling.
3Freiauret (Freia Clock)
Freiauret is the illuminated sign and clock of the Freia chocolate company, founded in Oslo in 1889, on a building at Egertorget where Karl Johans gate meets Øvre Slottsgate. The sign has changed over the years but has always stood in the same place, and the square below is a popular meeting point with street musicians.
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4Storting (Norwegian Parliament)
Norway's parliament meets in this building designed by the Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet and taken into use in 1866. It is built of yellow brick on a base of light grey granite, and stone lions designed by Christopher Borch guard the sloping approach known as Løvebakken, the Lion Hill.
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5Oslo City Hall (Rådhuset)
Oslo City Hall, designed by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson, was built between 1931 and 1950 and opened for the city's 900th anniversary. Its two brick towers rise 63 and 66 metres, and every year on 10 December the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in its main hall. Look for Dagfin Werenskiold's colourful reliefs of Norse myths in the courtyard.
6Nobel Peace Center
The Nobel Peace Center occupies the former Oslo West railway station, built in 1872 to designs by Georg Andreas Bull and used by trains until 1989. King Harald V opened the centre in 2005 as a showcase for the Nobel Peace Prize, its laureates and the ideals the prize stands for.
7National Theatre
Norway's National Theatre, designed by Henrik Bull, gave its first performance on 1 September 1899. Most of Henrik Ibsen's plays have been staged here, and Stephan Sinding's statues of Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson have stood in front of the building since the year it opened.
8Royal Palace
The Royal Palace was commissioned by King Charles III John, who ruled Norway and Sweden, and designed by Hans Linstow; the foundation stone was laid in 1825 and the palace was completed in 1849. It has 173 rooms and stands in the public Palace Park, with Brynjulf Bergslien's equestrian statue of the king, finished in 1875, in front.
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9Uranienborg Church
Uranienborg Church was designed in neo-Gothic style by Balthazar Lange, later Kristiania's city architect, and consecrated on 22 December 1886. The brick church stands beside Uranienborg Park behind the Royal Palace, and its stained-glass windows are the work of Emanuel Vigeland.
10Frogner Park (Vigeland Park)Finish
Frogner Park is home to the Vigeland installation, 212 bronze and granite sculptures all designed by Gustav Vigeland, who worked on it for about two decades. It culminates in the Monolith, a column about 14 metres high carved from a single block of granite, with 121 human figures climbing towards the top.
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