What is the Stockholm outdoor escape game?
The Stockholm outdoor escape game is an escape room spread across islands: a puzzle sits at each of 10 landmarks, from the City Hall on Kungsholmen to the bridge over to Skeppsholmen, and you solve them on your phone. Allow about 2 hours, 40 minutes of which is walking over 3.1 km, and set out on a day of your choosing.
The puzzles hang on things you can see: the Three Crowns on the City Hall tower, the openwork iron spire of Riddarholm Church, Stortorget in front of the Nobel Prize Museum, the Royal Palace and the small gilded crown on Skeppsholmsbron. Each is independent of the rest, with three levels of hints on call. Because Stockholm is laid out on islands joined by bridges, the water keeps turning up between one puzzle and the next.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 40 min · 3.1 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Work it out
Each landmark comes with a puzzle you answer from what is in view, by reasoning and not from a guidebook.
Read the detail
Crowns, dates and ironwork carry the clues, so it pays to look up at a tower or down at a railing.
Cross the bridges
Google Maps links the stops for you: 40 minutes of walking over 3.1 km.
Keep your own pace
Nothing counts down. Take a hint, break for a coffee and continue later in the day or on another one.
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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 work out on the next bridge, and nobody needs to know Stockholm.
Couples
A puzzle to share between water views, with nothing measuring how long you stop on a bridge.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, so colleagues can start at the same time without much planning.
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 City Hall to Skeppsholmsbron
10 stops · about 40 min walking · start: Stockholm City Hall · finish: Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron
Kungsholmen opens the game: the first puzzle is at the City Hall, with the Normalhöjdpunkten marker close by. Bridges then lead to Riddarholmen and its royal burial church, and on into Gamla stan for the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget. Slottsbacken brings the obelisk and the Royal Palace, after which the route crosses to Gustav Adolfs torg, St Jacob's Church and the Nationalmuseum on Blasieholmen. The last puzzle is on Skeppsholmsbron, at the gilded crown. Daylight is best, the app reorders the stops, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Stockholm City HallStart
Designed by Ragnar Östberg and built from around eight million bricks, the City Hall was inaugurated on Midsummer Eve in 1923. Its 106-metre tower is topped by the Three Crowns, Sweden's national emblem. Every December the Nobel Prize banquet is held in its Blue Hall, which despite its name is built of red brick.
2Normalhöjdpunkten
The name of this small marker means 'normal height point': it is a fixed reference mark used by surveyors. Heights above sea level in Stockholm were measured from marks like this one, so a detail most passers-by never notice once underpinned the city's maps and building plans.
3Riddarholm Church
Built as the church of a Franciscan friary in the late 13th century, Riddarholm Church is one of the oldest buildings in Stockholm. For centuries it has been the burial church of Swedish kings, among them Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII. Its openwork cast-iron spire replaced the old one after a lightning fire in 1835.
4Nobel Prize Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is housed in the Stock Exchange Building on Stortorget, completed in the 1770s, which is also home to the Swedish Academy that chooses the Nobel laureates in literature. The square in front is the oldest in Stockholm, and in 1520 it was the scene of the Stockholm Bloodbath ordered by the Danish King Christian II.
5Obelisk on Slottsbacken
This obelisk on Slottsbacken, the broad slope beside the Royal Palace, was commissioned by King Gustav III to thank the citizens of Stockholm for their loyalty during the war against Russia of 1788 to 1790. Designed by Louis Jean Desprez, it was only completed around 1800, after the king's death.
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6Royal Palace
The Royal Palace stands where the medieval Tre Kronor castle burned down in 1697. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger designed the new baroque palace, and the royal family moved in in 1754. It is the official residence of the Swedish monarch and one of the largest palaces in Europe still used for its original purpose.
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7Gustav Adolfs torg
This square is named after King Gustavus Adolphus, whose equestrian statue stands in the middle. On one side is the Royal Swedish Opera, opened in 1898 on the site of the earlier opera house where its founder, King Gustav III, was shot at a masked ball in 1792.
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8St Jacob's Church
Sankt Jacobs kyrka, beside the Kungsträdgården park, was begun under King John III in the 1580s but only consecrated in 1643. Its orange-red walls and tall tower make it easy to spot, and it is dedicated to St James, the patron saint of pilgrims.
9Nationalmuseum
Sweden's national museum of art and design opened in 1866 in this Renaissance-style building on Blasieholmen, designed by the German architect Friedrich August Stüler. Its collections range from Rembrandt to Swedish painters such as Carl Larsson, and the building reopened in 2018 after a major renovation.
10Gilded Crown on SkeppsholmsbronFinish
Halfway across Skeppsholmsbron, the bridge to the island of Skeppsholmen, a gilded crown sits on the railing. The cast-iron bridge dates from 1861, and the crown is a favourite photo spot with Gamla stan across the water. Moored nearby is the old sailing ship af Chapman.
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