What is the Reims outdoor escape game?
The Reims outdoor escape game is an escape room carried out into the city centre: your phone leads you from one landmark to the next, and each of the 10 stops holds a puzzle that you solve by studying the place and reasoning it through. Plan on about 2 hours, with 32 minutes of walking over 2.5 km, and begin on a day that works for your group.
Puzzles are placed at sites such as the Roman Porte de Mars, the Cryptoportique, Place Royale, the cathedral and the Opéra. Every puzzle stands on its own, so the route has no storyline to follow. Three levels of hints are available if you get stuck. Reims is a compact city, where Roman remains, royal squares and Art Deco façades sit close together, which keeps the walks between puzzles short.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 32 min · 2.5 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Crack the puzzle at each stop by watching the place closely and working through it logically. You need no prior knowledge of Reims.
Study the place
Clues sit in the details around each location, such as carvings, façades and the layout of the square.
Walk
Follow Google Maps between stops: about 32 minutes on foot over roughly 2.5 km.
Take your time
There is no countdown. Use a hint when you need one, pause for a coffee, and come back 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
Each puzzle gives the group something to debate at the next stop, and nobody has to know the city in advance.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking as you stroll from the Roman arch to the cathedral, with no clock running.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, a simple option for colleagues.
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 Square Colbert to Place Drouet d'Erlon
10 stops · about 32 min walking · start: Square Colbert · finish: Place Drouet d'Erlon
The first puzzle waits at Square Colbert and the last one among the cafés of Place Drouet d'Erlon. In between you pass the Porte de Mars, the Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur, the Cryptoportique, Place Royale, the Carnegie Library, Reims Cathedral, the Palais de Justice and the Opéra. Daylight makes the best start, because rain or wind slow every stop. Google Maps guides you between puzzles, the app lets you change the order, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Square ColbertStart
This small green square is named after Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the powerful minister of King Louis XIV, who was born in Reims. It is a calm place to get your bearings before the route leads you to the Roman remains and the Gothic cathedral of the city centre.
2Porte de Mars
The Porte de Mars is a Roman arch from the 3rd century AD and the only one left of the four monumental gates of Durocortorum, as Reims was called in Roman times. More than 30 metres wide, it has three passages whose vaults show carved scenes of farm work and the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus.
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3Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur
This old town mansion stands on Place du Forum, a square that was once a market place and, long before that, part of the Roman forum. Today it is a museum, with rooms of old furniture, paintings and prints.
4Cryptoportique
On Place du Forum you can look down into the Cryptoportique, a vaulted Roman gallery lying partly below street level. It belonged to the forum of Durocortorum, the centre of public life in Roman Reims, and is one of the oldest structures still standing in the city.
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5Place Royale
Place Royale was laid out in the 18th century on part of the old Roman forum and is framed by uniform classical façades. In the centre stands King Louis XV dressed as a Roman emperor: Pigalle's original statue of 1765 was destroyed in the Revolution and replaced in 1818 by a bronze by Pierre Cartellier, while Pigalle's pedestal figures survived.
6Carnegie Library
The Bibliothèque Carnegie is one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Reims, a city largely rebuilt after the destruction of the First World War. It was paid for by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the American foundation of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Look closely at the decoration of its entrance.
7Reims Cathedral
Notre-Dame de Reims was begun in 1211, after a fire destroyed the earlier church, and French kings were crowned here for centuries, from Henry I in 1027 to Charles X in 1825. Joan of Arc made it possible for Charles VII to be crowned here in 1429, and the famous Smiling Angel is carved beside one of its portals.
8Palais de Justice
The Palais de Justice, the courthouse of Reims, stands a short walk from the cathedral. Its formal stone façade, designed to express the authority of the law, makes a sober contrast with the Gothic sculpture next door, and courts still sit here today.
9Opéra de Reims
The Opéra de Reims is the city's theatre for opera, plays and concerts. Close to where it stands, the Porte de Vénus, the western gate of Roman Reims, survived until it was taken down in 1755. Take a close look at its decorated façade before you move on to the cafés of Place Drouet d'Erlon.
10Place Drouet d'ErlonFinish
Place Drouet d'Erlon is a long pedestrian square full of cafés, restaurants and shops. It is named after Jean-Baptiste Drouet d'Erlon, a general of Napoleon born in Reims who later became a Marshal of France. In the middle stands the Subé fountain, crowned by a gilded winged Victory.
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Germany –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Une fa?on agr?able et ludique pour d?couvrir les monuments remarquables de la ville
France –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Int?ressante, ludique mais dans le texte il y a des fautes d’orthographe et de syntaxe.
Ingrid– Belgium –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Voor ons de eerste keer. Waardoor de start wat traag verliep, we moesten uitzoeken hoe t werkt. Het navigeren: de aankomst was niet overal duidelijk. Leuke vragen. Liet ons anders kijken naar bezienswaardigheden.
Bram Van– Belgium –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Zeer leuke en leerrijke activiteit!