690 CZKper team
TrutnovOn sale
The Poet's Secret
- Time
- approx. 2 h
- Route
- 2.5 km
- Difficulty
- Team
- 1–4 phones
Outdoor escape game in English · Trutnov, Czech Republic
Trutnov is hiding something. You have two hours.
An escape game played in real streets, in English from the first stop to the last. The clues sit on façades, in the cobbles and on statues that people have walked past for a century. Bring a phone and the habit of looking twice.
- 1–4 phones, as many people as you like
- Two hours, counted from your own start
- English, no app, no GPS
Our games
Every escape game is an original, written for one specific city — its streets, coats of arms and legends.
How it works
Pay now, walk out in a few minutes. No guide, no locked room — just you and the town.
Buy the game
One payment covers the whole team, not each head. Want to go right now? Go. Planning ahead? Pick a day at checkout.
The code arrives
By e-mail, within a minute of paying. Nothing to install — the game runs in the browser of the phone already in your pocket.
Meet at the start
Every player brings their own phone, four at most. Anyone without one — younger kids, usually — solves alongside somebody else. In the lobby you split the roles and open the backpack of tools.
Press Start
Your two hours begin at that moment. Written directions walk you from stop to stop, and each player types their own answer. Stuck? The first hint unlocks after a minute.
- 1–4 phones
- Roles in the team
- Backpack of tools
- Hints when you are stuck
- No GPS — played on trust
Who is behind this
We are three people born in Trutnov. We grew up a few streets from the square, and for years it bothered us how little we knew about the town we walk through every day.
So we spent a year in the archives and on the pavements and wrote the game we would want to play ourselves. We tested the ciphers on our own children and on friends who had never set foot in Trutnov — that second group is the one you are joining.
Petr Preclík
If something is unclear or goes wrong, write to us. One of the three of us answers.
info@trutnovem.czPrice
690 CZK
for the whole team, not per person
Split four ways, that is 173 CZK each.
- One code for the whole team — up to four phones.
- About two hours of play, at whatever pace suits you.
- Three hints on every cipher; the last one simply gives you the answer.
- A backpack of tools: a Latin translator, a spyglass, sheet music, a name-day diary and period notes.
- Two pauses, up to 45 minutes in total — coffee and ice cream included.
Nothing to rent, nothing to return, no deposit and no extra fees.
Gift voucher
Buying it for someone else? A voucher carries no date. They enter the code at checkout and pick the day that suits them.
For companies and schools
Coming in numbers? Several teams can set off at the same time and compare scores at the finish. Write to us with how many of you there are and when you are coming, and we will sort out the timing and how you get the codes.
What the first teams will say
Nothing here yet.
Reviews go here once the first independent test teams have played the finished game. We are not going to invent them.
Frequently asked questions
Do we need to speak Czech?
No. The game is in English from start to finish — stories, tasks and hints. What you read in the street is sometimes Czech or Latin, and where that matters the game hands you the tools to read it, including a Latin translator.
Where is Trutnov, and where does the game start?
Trutnov is the town at the foot of the Krkonoše, the Giant Mountains, on the road between the mountains and Hradec Králové. The whole game stays in the historic centre and takes about 2.5 km on foot. Once you enter your code, the game tells you where the first stop is.
How many of us can play?
One to four phones, and as many people walking along as you like. One phone is one player; anyone without a phone, usually younger children, solves together with someone else. Playing alone works too — you simply carry every role yourself.
When do the two hours start?
When your team presses Start, not when you pay. Two hours is what the route usually takes, not a cut-off: if you run over, nobody shuts the game down on you.
Can we play today, or do we have to book ahead?
Today is fine. Pay, get the code within a minute, and walk. If you would rather plan, pick another day at checkout.
How late in the day can we start?
While there is daylight. The ciphers are on façades and in the pavement, and after dark you simply cannot read them, torch or no torch. Start with roughly two hours of light ahead of you.
What if it rains?
You play in any weather — the ciphers are on buildings and read fine with an umbrella in your hand. If it is genuinely impossible, a gale or black ice, write to us and we will move your day.
Do we need an app or GPS?
Neither. The game runs in your phone's browser and written directions guide you between stops. We never track your location — you confirm your arrival yourself. It runs on trust.
What if we get stuck?
Every cipher has three hints. The first unlocks after one minute, the second after three, the third after five and it gives you the answer outright. They cost points, but they always get you moving.
Do we solve together or separately?
You set off together and finish together, but each player types their own answer on their own phone. Talking it through out loud is the whole point — that is why you came as a group.
Going out today?
The code lands in your inbox within a minute of paying, so it is a few minutes from deciding to standing at the first stop. Just watch the light: once it is dark, the façades stop talking.
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