What is the Prague outdoor escape game?
The Prague outdoor escape game is an escape room with the roof taken off: the puzzles are built into the city's own landmarks and you work on them from your smartphone. The whole thing runs to roughly 2 hours, of which 53 minutes are walking, the route measures 4.6 km and the puzzles sit at 10 stops. Pick the day, and the game is ready when you are.
Puzzles are set at the Municipal House, the Týn Church, the Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge and St Vitus Cathedral, and each is self-contained, so no storyline has to be remembered from one to the next. Prague supplies the raw material generously: a clock from 1410 with Apostles that appear every hour, thirty statues lining the bridge and a cathedral whose building work ran from 1344 to 1929. Three levels of hints are on hand whenever a puzzle refuses to give way.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 53 min · 4.6 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech
What you do on the escape game
Deduce
Every stop poses a puzzle that is answered from the surroundings, by logic rather than by anything learned in advance.
Study the dials and statues
Clock faces, saints on parapets, coats of arms and carved doorways are where the answers tend to sit.
Cross the Vltava
Google Maps leads you stop by stop: 53 minutes of walking, 4.6 km, including the climb to the castle.
Keep your own clock
Time is on your side here. Call up a hint, pause for a beer garden view and resume 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 and groups
Arguing over a puzzle in front of the Astronomical Clock beats queueing silently beside it.
Couples
One route, two heads, a bridge across the river and no schedule to keep.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 each run the game on their own phone, which makes planning for a company outing simple.
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 Henry's Tower to Prague Castle
10 stops · about 53 min walking · start: Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž) · finish: St Vitus Cathedral
The first puzzle stands at Henry's Tower in the New Town and the final one at St Vitus Cathedral inside Prague Castle. Between them lie the Municipal House, the Týn Church, the Spanish Synagogue, St Nicholas Church, the Astronomical Clock, the Charles IV Monument, Charles Bridge and the Holy Trinity Column in Malá Strana. Set out in daylight: the puzzles are read off the buildings themselves, and rain on the cobbles makes the climb to the castle slower. Google Maps handles the walking directions, the app lets you reorder the stops, and no entry tickets are needed anywhere.
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1Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž)Start
Henry's Tower is the free-standing belfry of the Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta in Prague's New Town, about 66 metres tall. The stone tower was built in the late 16th century and got its neo-Gothic look in a rebuilding of 1876–1880, and its oldest surviving bell, Maria, was cast in 1518.
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2Municipal House (Obecní dům)
The Municipal House was built from 1905 and opened in 1912 to designs by Osvald Polívka and Antonín Balšánek, on the site of a medieval royal palace next to the Powder Gate. Above the entrance is Karel Špillar's mosaic Homage to Prague, and in 1918 the building saw the declaration of Czechoslovak independence.
3Church of Our Lady before Týn
The Gothic Týn Church rises behind the houses of Old Town Square, with two towers about 80 metres high; the south tower was finished in 1511. The astronomer Tycho Brahe is buried inside, and the golden Hussite chalice that once crowned the gable was melted down in 1626 for the halo of a statue of the Virgin Mary.
4Spanish Synagogue
The Spanish Synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style, on the site of what was probably the oldest synagogue in Prague's Jewish Town. Today it is part of the Jewish Museum in Prague, and beside it stands Jaroslav Róna's modern statue of Franz Kafka.
5St Nicholas Church (Old Town)
This Baroque church on Old Town Square was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer for the Benedictines and built in 1732–1737. Its white façade with statues by Antonín Braun only became visible from the square after a house in front of it was demolished in 1902, and today it belongs to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
6Astronomical Clock
The astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall dates from 1410 and was made by the clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and the astronomer Jan Šindel. Every hour figures of the Apostles appear in the windows above the dials, and according to legend the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded so that he could never build another one.
7Charles IV Monument
This statue of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, stands on Křižovnické náměstí at the Old Town end of Charles Bridge. The Dresden sculptor Ernst Julius Hähnel made it, and it was unveiled in 1848 for the 500th anniversary of Charles University, which Charles founded in 1348.
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8Charles Bridge
Charles IV had the stone bridge begun in 1357 to designs by Peter Parler, and according to tradition the first stone was laid at 5:31 on 9 July 1357, so that the date and time read the same backwards. The bridge is about 516 metres long and lined with 30 statues and sculpture groups, among them Saint John of Nepomuk.
9Holy Trinity Column
This Baroque plague column on Malá Strana Square was completed in 1715 to mark the end of the plague epidemic that struck Prague in 1713. It was designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi, with sculptures by Jan Oldřich Mayer and Ferdinand Geiger.
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10St Vitus CathedralFinish
Work on the Gothic cathedral inside Prague Castle began in 1344 under Matthias of Arras, Peter Parler took over after his death, and the building was only completed in 1929. It holds the relics of Saint Wenceslas and the tombs of many Bohemian kings, and the Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha designed one of its stained-glass windows.
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