What is the Strasbourg outdoor escape game?
The Strasbourg outdoor escape game is an escape room without walls: the puzzles are tucked into the city's landmarks, you open them on your smartphone, and every answer comes out of whatever stands in front of you. The route has 10 stops, and you should set aside roughly 2 hours, of which 47 minutes go on walking 3.8 km.
Puzzles wait at the Ponts Couverts, St Thomas's Church, the red sandstone cathedral, Palais Rohan and Place Kléber, and each one stands alone, with no storyline tying them together. When one resists, you can open up to three levels of hints. Strasbourg fits the format well: the old centre is a flat island ringed by the Ill, so the walk from one puzzle to the next stays short.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 47 min · 3.8 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese
What you do on the escape game
Work it out
Every stop asks you to read the place itself. Observation and logic are enough, and nothing you learned at school is needed.
Scan the detail
Answers hide in carvings, inscriptions, rooflines and the shape of a square, so slow down and look twice before you reply.
Walk on
Google Maps points you to the next puzzle: 47 minutes of walking spread over 3.8 km.
Set your own pace
Nothing counts down. Call up a hint, break for a tarte flambée, and carry on an hour later or on a different 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
Everyone reads the same building differently, and that is where the arguing and the laughing start. No local knowledge required.
Couples
A puzzle walk for two, with no clock at your back and plenty of cafés for a pause between stops.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play from their own phones, so a department splits easily into several groups on the same route.
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 Ponts Couverts to St Paul's Church
10 stops · about 47 min walking · start: Ponts Couverts (Covered Bridges) · finish: St Paul's Church
The first puzzle sits at the Ponts Couverts in Petite France and the last at St Paul's Church in the Neustadt. In between you work through St Thomas's Church, Place Gutenberg, the Alsatian Museum across the Ill, the cathedral, Palais Rohan, Place Kléber, the Opéra national du Rhin on Place Broglie and Place de la République. Daylight is the better choice, since every puzzle is read outdoors and rain slows a group down. Google Maps handles the navigation, the order can be rearranged in the app, and no stop needs an entry ticket.
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1Ponts Couverts (Covered Bridges)Start
These three bridges and four defensive towers were built from 1230 and opened in 1250 to guard the point where the Ill enters the city in four channels. They kept the name covered bridges even after their wooden roofs were removed in 1784, and just upstream the Vauban Dam took over their defensive role in 1690.
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2St Thomas's Church
St Thomas's Church was begun in 1196, completed in 1521 and has been Protestant since 1524. Inside is Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's tomb of Marshal Maurice de Saxe from 1777, and Mozart played its Silbermann organ of 1741 during his visit in 1778.
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3Place Gutenberg
The square is named after Johannes Gutenberg, who lived in Strasbourg in the 1430s and 1440s, before printing his famous Bible in Mainz. His bronze statue by David d'Angers has stood in the middle of the square since 1840.
4Alsatian Museum
The Musée Alsacien opened in 1907 in a group of Renaissance timber-framed houses on Quai Saint-Nicolas, on the bank of the Ill. Its rooms recreate traditional Alsatian interiors and show more than 5,000 objects of mostly rural daily life, including a collection on the life of Alsatian Jews.
5Strasbourg Cathedral (Notre-Dame)
The cathedral is built of red sandstone from the Vosges, and its single spire, finished in 1439, rises 142 metres: from 1647 to 1874 it made the cathedral the tallest building in the world. Look for the richly carved west front, linked to the master builder Erwin von Steinbach, and inside the astronomical clock built by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué in 1837–1842.
6Palais Rohan
This palace was built in 1732–1742 to designs by Robert de Cotte for Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg. Marie Antoinette spent her first night on French soil here in 1770, and today it houses the city's Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Archaeological museums.
7Place Kléber
Strasbourg's central square is named after General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, born in the city in 1753, who is buried beneath his statue by Philippe Grass in the middle of the square. One side is lined by the long Aubette, built in 1765–1772 by the royal architect Jacques-François Blondel.
8Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg Opera House)
Strasbourg's opera house on Place Broglie is a neoclassical building by Jean-Nicolas Villot that opened in 1821. Heavily damaged by Prussian artillery during the siege of 1870, it reopened in 1873, and six sandstone statues of Muses by Landolin Ohmacht stand above the columns of its portico.
9Place de la République
Laid out from 1880 as the Kaiserplatz, the square is the centrepiece of the Neustadt, the district built under German rule, and is framed by the Palais du Rhin, the former imperial palace of 1884–1887. In the garden stands Léon-Ernest Drivier's war memorial of 1936: a mother holding her two dead sons, recalling Strasbourg's history between France and Germany.
10St Paul's ChurchFinish
This neo-Gothic church was built in 1892–1897 for the Lutheran soldiers of the German garrison, to designs by Louis Muller inspired by St Elizabeth's Church in Marburg. Its twin spires, 76 metres high, rise at the southern tip of an island in the Ill, and since 1919 it has been a Reformed church.
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Silvia– Germany –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Die Tour war sehr schön zusammengestellt, aber die Fragen waren zum Teil nicht sehr orginell.
Germany –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Tolle Infos. Spannende Rätsel. Feine Sache! Hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht.
Canada –
Collected on GetYourGuide
le trajet est intéressant mais l’appli buggait de temps en temps. les questions étaient faciles par endroit et à d’autres, l’utilisation des indices a été nécessaire.
Nicolas– Belgium –
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