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Free Chester games

An interactive walk for teenagers, nine quick Chester games for your phone, a quiz to find your best time to visit, and two hand drawn maps to colour. New questions daily.

Chester for teenagers

Roman heated floors, a dungeon and a grinning cat. Six stops round the walls, Grosvenor Park and the Rows, made for 11 to 15s with a phone.

  1. 1Spot the gross and the weird.
  2. 2Snap the photo challenges.
  3. 3Add up your score at the end.
Read Chester for teenagers

Chester picture games for kids

Hand drawn colouring map of Chester with the Cathedral, Eastgate Clock, the Rows, the River Dee, the Roodee and Chester Zoo

Colour in Chester

Our hand drawn map of Chester, from the Rows to the zoo.

  1. 1Print the map.
  2. 2Spot each place on your walk.
  3. 3Colour it in when you find it.
Download the Chester map (free A4 PDF)

Drawn for us by Emma Lucy, who owns the copyright.
Free to print for personal use only.

Photo 1 of 8 · Score 0

Where in Chester?

Look closely. Where is this?

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Pin it

Where is this? Tap the map.

Street map of Chester's walled city and the River Dee, with no names on it
Enjoy the Pause holiday home

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Mistakes left 4

Chester Connections

Find four groups of four. Tap four that belong together.

Photo 1 of 5 · Score 0

Guess the year

Try 1 of 6

Chester Word

Guess today's five letter Chester word.

Right place In the word Not in it

Drawing 1 of 5 · Score 0

Outlines

Which Chester landmark is this?

Drawings by Emma Lucy, from our Chester colouring map.

Person 1 of 5 · Score 0

Who am I?

    Seven question quiz

    When should you visit Chester?

    Find your best time of year, with three things to do when you come.

    Question 1 of 7

    Chester word and history puzzles

    Hand drawn colouring map of the house, with the garden, kitchen, dining area and lounge downstairs and the bathroom, landing and two bedrooms upstairs

    Colour in Enjoy the Pause

    Your two bedroom home, drawn by hand, room by room.

    1. 1Print the house map.
    2. 2Colour each room your way.
    3. 3Then find each room in our photos.
    Download the house map (free A4 PDF)See the house on Home Comforts

    Drawn for us by Emma Lucy, who owns the copyright.
    Free to print for personal use only.

    Good to know.

    Are the Chester games free?

    Yes. All nine are free, with no sign up and no app: Chester Word, Outlines, Who am I?, Pin it, Chester Connections, Guess the year, Where in Chester?, Which is older? and Which is a shorter walk?, plus two colouring maps to print, Chester and the house. The games play in your browser on a phone or computer.

    Are they suitable for children?

    Yes. They are made for all ages. Younger children enjoy the colouring maps and the spotting walk; older children and grown ups enjoy beating each other's scores.

    Where do the dates and distances come from?

    Dates come from official records such as Historic England. Walking distances are routed on foot from your front door on Steele Street.

    Older only means something when the rule is clear. A site founded in 1092 can hold fabric from the 1090s and a tower from the 1500s. So every question names its rule, and two places are only compared on the same rule.

    Where history is honest about uncertainty, so are we. Some dates are decades or ranges, like the city walls begun in the AD 70s to 80s. A question is only asked when the two dates cannot overlap.

    Walking distances are routed on foot from Enjoy the Pause at Steele Street, never measured in a straight line. Routes were calculated with OSRM, an open-source routing engine, over map data from the OpenStreetMap project, and checked on 11 July 2026. Walking routes use OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Near-ties inside 150 metres are never asked.

    Dates and distances were checked in July 2026. The question set is a dated snapshot, refreshed deliberately rather than left to drift.

    What are your sources?

    Every place in the games, with the official records its dates come from. Places listed without a record appear only in the walking questions.

    Who took the photos?

    14 places appear in our own photographs. The rest are by the generous photographers of Wikimedia Commons, used under their Creative Commons licences and resized only.

    • Bear and Billet · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Bluecoat School (and former chapel of St John the Baptist) · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Bridgegate · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Chester Castle and the Agricola Tower · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Chester Cathedral · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Chester City Walls · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Chester Market · photo by Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Chester Roman Amphitheatre · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Chester Roman Gardens · photo by Carole Raddato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Chester Town Hall · photo by Worm That Turned · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
    • Chester Weir and the Dee Mills site · photo by Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
    • Eastgate · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Eastgate Clock · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Enjoy the Pause, Steele Street, Chester · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Falcon Inn · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Grosvenor Shopping Centre · photo by Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
    • Kaleyard Gate · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Minerva's Shrine, Edgar's Field · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Newgate · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Northgate · photo by Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • Oddfellows Hall (Lower Bridge Street) · photo by Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
    • Old Dee Bridge · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Stanley Palace · photo by Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
    • Steele Street, Chester · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • Storyhouse · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • The Blue Bell (Nos. 63 & 65 Northgate Street) · photo by Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
    • The Hermitage (The Groves) · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
    • The Old King's Head (Lower Bridge Street) · © PauseUK Ltd, our own photograph
    • The Old Palace (The Groves) · photo by Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
    • Three Old Arches (48 Bridge Street) · photo by Mike Peel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
    • Water Tower and Bonewaldesthorne's Tower · photo by Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source

    Keep exploring

    All the Chester guides Local tips for history, food, walks and seasonsChester's Roman amphitheatre with autumn trees and St John's church behindHistoric Chester in miniature A photo true journey through the eras, from your front doorThe facts behind the games Every date checked against the official records