What is the Stuttgart outdoor escape game?
The Stuttgart outdoor escape game takes the escape room onto the city streets: you play on your smartphone, and at each of the 10 stops a puzzle is waiting that you solve by watching your surroundings closely and reasoning step by step. Allow about 3 hours, with 49 minutes on foot covering 3 km, and start on a day that fits your plans.
The puzzles sit at landmarks such as the Staatsgalerie, the New Palace, the Old Castle, the Stiftskirche and the Hans im Glück fountain, and each one stands alone, so no storyline ties the stops together. Stuck? If a riddle resists, a first, second and third pointer are there to crack it. Stuttgart's centre suits the format well, since the palace grounds, the old squares and the churches sit within walking distance of one another.
- Durationabout 3 hours
- Walkingabout 49 min · 3 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Crack the puzzle at each stop by reading the surroundings and working through the logic. No prior knowledge of Stuttgart is needed.
Look closer
The clues are in the details around each landmark, from the façades and statues to the layout of the square.
Walk
Follow Google Maps from one stop to the next: about 49 minutes on foot across roughly 3 km.
Take your time
There is no countdown. Use a hint when you need one, stop for a break and continue 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 on a day out
Every puzzle gives the group something to argue over until the next stop, and nobody needs to know the city beforehand.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking as you move from one landmark to the next, with no clock running in the background.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes the format easy for colleagues to organise.
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 Schlossgarten to the Hans im Glück fountain
10 stops · about 49 min walking · start: Biergarten im Schlossgarten · finish: Hans im Glück Fountain
The first puzzle waits at the beer garden in the Schlossgarten and the last one at the Hans im Glück fountain on Geißstraße. In between you pass the Staatsgalerie, the New Palace and Schlossplatz, then the Old Castle, Schillerplatz and the Stiftskirche, before the equestrian statue on Karlsplatz and the Marktplatz with its town hall. Start in daylight if you can, since rain or wind slow the game. Google Maps guides you between stops, the app lets you change the order, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Biergarten im SchlossgartenStart
This large beer garden lies in the Mittlerer Schlossgarten, a short walk from the main station. The park was once the palace garden of the rulers of Württemberg and is now a public green space in the city centre.
2Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The Staatsgalerie is Stuttgart's main art museum, with a collection that reaches from the Middle Ages to the present day. Its neoclassical building opened in 1843, and the extension by James Stirling, opened in 1984, is a well-known example of postmodern architecture with bright pink and blue handrails.
3New Palace (Neues Schloss)
Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg had work begin on this Baroque residence in 1746, and building went on for decades. The palace was heavily damaged in 1944, rebuilt from 1958 to 1964, and today it houses offices of the state ministries of Baden-Württemberg.
4Schlossplatz
Schlossplatz is the large square in front of the New Palace, once the forecourt of the Württemberg residence. It is bordered by the Königsbau, a long building with shops.
5Old Castle (Altes Schloss)
The Old Castle was the seat of the Württemberg dukes, and its oldest wing, the Dürnitzbau, dates from around 1350. Its Renaissance arcaded wing was completed shortly after 1542, and the building still frames Schillerplatz today.
6Schillerplatz
The square is named after the poet Friedrich Schiller, whose memorial by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen was unveiled in the centre in 1839. The square was laid out as a Renaissance square in 1594, and it still has the Stiftskirche and the Old Castle on its edges.
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7Stiftskirche
The Stiftskirche is the main church of the Lutheran Church in Württemberg. Its origins go back to a Romanesque church of 1240, and its Gothic choir was added between 1321 and 1347. Heavily damaged in 1944, it was rebuilt after the war, and the Reformer Johannes Brenz, who died in 1570, is buried beneath its choir.
8Kaiser Wilhelm Monument
This bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Wilhelm I in military dress was erected in 1898, ten years after his death, by the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann. It stands on a stone base with reliefs and eagles on Karlsplatz in the city centre.
9Marktplatz
The Marktplatz has been a market square since the Middle Ages, and markets are still held here. The town hall on it dates from the 1950s and replaces a 14th-century building destroyed in the Second World War, and a weekly farmers' market still fills the square.
10Hans im Glück FountainFinish
The fountain takes its name from the Grimm fairy tale Hans im Glück, about a young man who trades his reward for one thing after another and still counts himself lucky. Six bronze medallions on the railing around its basin show scenes from the story, and the fountain stands in a square whose current layout dates from 1909.
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