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Escape Room LA: The Alchemist

Los Angeles, Nov 2018

Of the five games available at Escape Room LA when we visited, The Alchemist was the other one I’d had strong recommendations for. The venue operates on a public booking basis but here again we managed to get the room to ourselves by playing daytime … (more)

Escape Room LA: The Pyramid

Los Angeles, Nov 2018

I probably shouldn’t admit that I only realised The Pyramid was Mayan themed not Egyptian during the game’s briefing – I went straight from recommendation to booking page without actually stopping to read anything about the game along the way. But ei… (more)

Purple Donkey: Escape Room The Game

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2018

Not to be confused with the similarly named line of home games from Spin Master Games, this product consists of a plastic padlock with four coloured dials, plus a set of sixteen different puzzles to solve. For the benefit of anyone who doesn’t read p… (more)

X Dimension: La Secret de la Perle Noir (The Secret of the Black Pearl)

Paris, Oct 2018

The second Parisian pirate game we played in two days, X Dimension’s Black Pearl has you on board an old frigate lost in another dimension, trying to guide it back. This venue follows the custom of blindfolding the players for their entrance into the… (more)

La Pièce: L’Odyssée de la Pièce

Paris, Oct 2018

At time of writing, La Pièce’s second game is only listed on the French version of their website; if you go through the booking pages in English you’ll see it listed only as an anonymous ‚La pièce 2‘. Don’t be put off though: not only is it fully Eng… (more)

The Game: L’enlèvement (The Kidnapping)

Paris, Oct 2018

The Game send in character welcome emails after you book one of their rooms, and the one for The Kidnapping is written as a plea for help: the author’s sister has been kidnapped, and the perpetrators are demanding a particular valuable abject as her … (more)

The Game: Le métro (The Metro)

Paris, Oct 2018

In the niche world of obsessive escape room fandom, some games and some companies develop a reputation. The Game is one of these, with The Metro likely to be near the top of the must-play list of those addicts whose Paris holiday planning is based ar… (more)

Hint Hunt: Pirates

Paris, Oct 2018

Just over five years ago I played my first escape room, at Hunt Hunt in London. I played my second with them as well, since at the time no other U.K. venues existed. Although I loved both games at the time, they were primitive by modern standards and… (more)

Escape Lab: PC Sécurité – Base B423 (Central Security Post – Base B423)

Paris, Oct 2018

Escape Lab is a curious experiment, a shared space where numerous different escape room operators can run their games, a business model that I could imagine succeeding elsewhere. PC Sécurité is from a design company named Oneway (previously Hydre), a… (more)

Rami Hansenne: Codex Enigmatum

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2018

Puzzle books and magazines have always had a loyal following, as shown by the puzzle sections in almost every newspaper and the various puzzle magazines seen in newsagents. The boom in escape rooms appears to have had a welcome spill-over effect in e… (more)