What is the Perth outdoor escape game?
The Perth outdoor escape game is an escape room moved out under the sky: each puzzle is attached to a landmark and you work it out on your phone, using what you can see and plain logic. Give it about 2 hours, including 42 minutes of walking over 3.3 km and 10 stops, and begin on whichever day you choose.
Puzzles are set at the Spanda sculpture on Elizabeth Quay, the Bell Tower, St George's Cathedral, Perth Town Hall, St Mary's Cathedral and the Perth Mint, and none of them leads into the next. Each has up to three levels of hints. Perth makes a good board for this: the centre is flat, the river is right there, and the walk runs from a 2016 waterfront sculpture to convict-built stone and a mint that still works gold.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 42 min · 3.3 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, Chinese
What you do on the escape game
Solve
At every landmark one puzzle, cracked by looking around you and reasoning. No prior knowledge required.
Look closer
The shape of a window in a clock tower, the brick and stone of a cathedral wall, a statue among trees: the clues are there.
Walk
Google Maps takes you on from the river into the city and out to East Perth: 42 minutes walking, 3.3 km.
Take your time
No countdown. Take a hint, sit in the shade for a while and continue later or on another day.
See the route and attractions →
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 self-contained problems and a flat route: the group argues about the answer, not about the climb.
Couples
A reason to stop at each landmark and talk it over, with the Swan River at the start and a park at the end.
Colleagues
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes it a practical plan for a team afternoon.
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 Elizabeth Quay to East Perth
10 stops · about 42 min walking · start: Spanda · finish: Notting Hill Bench
The first puzzle stands under Spanda on Elizabeth Quay, where the city meets the Swan River, and the route then follows the water past the Talbot Hobbs Memorial to the Bell Tower on Barrack Square. From there it turns inland to St George's Cathedral and Perth Town Hall, continues east to the Royal Perth Hospital Museum, St Mary's Cathedral and the Perth Mint, and ends in East Perth with Queen's Gardens and the final puzzle on the Notting Hill Bench. Starting in daylight is best, because everything is solved outdoors and the weather sets the pace. The app lets you reorder the stops, and no entry tickets are needed.
Open the route map ↗
1SpandaStart
Spanda, a 29-metre sculpture by Christian de Vietri, rises over Elizabeth Quay, the waterfront precinct opened in 2016 where the city centre meets the Swan River. Its white arches grow out of one another like ripples, and its name is a Sanskrit word for the pulse or vibration of the universe.
2Talbot Hobbs Memorial
This memorial honours Lieutenant General Sir Talbot Hobbs, a Perth architect who commanded Australian troops on the Western Front in the First World War. He died in 1938 on his way to France for the unveiling of the Australian war memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, and the city raised this memorial by the river in his honour.
3The Bell Tower
The Bell Tower, opened in 2000, houses the Swan Bells, among them twelve historic bells from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London that were given to Western Australia for the Australian bicentenary in 1988. Its glass-and-copper spire rises about 82 metres above Barrack Square on the riverfront.
4St George's Cathedral
St George's Cathedral, the Anglican cathedral of Perth, was designed by the Sydney architect Edmund Blacket and consecrated in 1888. Look at its red-brick Gothic Revival walls with pale stone details; the bell tower beside it was added in 1902 as a memorial to Queen Victoria.
5Perth Town Hall
Perth Town Hall, completed in 1870 at the corner of Hay and Barrack Streets, was built with the help of convict labour. Look up at the windows of its clock tower: a popular local story says the convicts shaped them like the broad arrow printed on their uniforms.
6Royal Perth Hospital Museum
Royal Perth Hospital grew from the Colonial Hospital that opened on this site in 1855, which makes it one of the oldest hospitals in Western Australia. Its small museum, in a heritage building of the hospital, tells the story of medicine and nursing in the colony and later the state.
7St Mary's Cathedral
St Mary's Cathedral on Victoria Square is the seat of Perth's Catholic archbishop. The first church opened here in 1865, a Gothic sanctuary was added around 1930, and a major rebuilding completed in 2009 finally joined the old and the new parts under one roof.
8The Perth Mint
The Perth Mint opened in 1899 as a branch of the Royal Mint, to turn gold from the Western Australian goldfields into sovereigns. Its original limestone building on Hay Street makes it one of the oldest mints still working, and gold coins and bars are still made here today.
9Queen's Gardens
Queen's Gardens in East Perth were laid out at the end of the 19th century on old clay pits once used by brickmakers, which became the park's ponds. Look for the statue of Peter Pan among the trees, a copy of the famous one in London's Kensington Gardens.
10Notting Hill BenchFinish
The last stop is a park bench in East Perth, close to Queen's Gardens, that goes by the name of the Notting Hill Bench. Sit down for a moment and look back over the green and quiet streets you have just crossed.
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