Elle Silver & the Merchant Explorer: St Paul's and Temple, London

4.67 (9 ratings)
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Experience an adventure through the streets of London between two of the most iconic London landmarks - The British Museum and St Paul's Cathedral. 

In a fictional story, you will explore many famous buildings of London, including Lincoln's Inn Chapel, Middle Temple, St Paul's Cathedral and St Bride's Church, solving clues left in a centuries old notebook. 

The story is family friendly and there are a variety of puzzles. This questo is ranked as our hardest level of difficulty and some puzzles are challenging. All have hints to help and we expect most solvers to need some!

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Availability:

  • Can be played on
    Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

  • During these hours
    07:00AM - 09:00PM

  • Languages
    English

Highlights

  • Enjoy a stunning walk from the British Museum, through the beauty of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the history of Temple and many of the iconic churches and buildings of London.

  • Solve word and picture puzzles to uncover the story of Elle Silver and decode an ancient treasure map.

Storyline

You are Elle Silver. Your father, cartographer and cryptologist at the British Museum has gone missing, accused of theft from the museum. You have solved a series of clues left by your dad around Richmond Park which have brought you to this location: The British Museum, at 4pm on a Tuesday afternoon. 

In his clues he left a reference to John Houblon, 17th century governor of the Bank of England and member of the Guild of Merchant Explorers. 

This wealthy society had access to vast funds and an expertise in exploration to uncover priceless artefacts from around the world. 

No doubt your dad has uncovered some new information about John Houblon, and an adventure awaits...

Experience's route

Starting point British Museum
52 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3BA, UK
Finish point Paternoster Square
Paternoster Square, London EC4M, UK

Places you will visit

15

It will take you

73-103 mins

You will walk

4990 steps

Total distance

3.8 km

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Ratings and Reviews

4.67

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game fam

12 Jul 2025
This questo led us through some incredible areas that we would never have found and we learned a lot of history. The puzzles were really clever, some were challenging but with some hints we were able to solve all of them and it was so satisfying when we did. It was a great day out! Loved it :-)

escapesQ

11 Jul 2025
Fantastic questo. Stunning route through London's history and Christopher Wren's buildings. Highly recommended.

JonEscapes

11 Jul 2025
really lovely walk and fantastic puzzles

NJ escape

18 Jul 2024
Most challenging Questo we’ve done. Good variety of interesting puzzles, although we didn’t get them all. It was great to explore this area of London.

Ali Taylor

25 Aug 2024
Some clues not accessible and a couple of clues were tricky to figure out given the information supplied.

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