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Suffolk Food Hall: Gamekeeper’s Bothy

Ipswich, Dec 2017

After a chilly first game at Suffolk Food Hall, we were pleased to discover their other game had a portable fan heater in the corner – although the size of the space meant we still ended up taking intermittent breaks to go over and warm our hands ove… (more)

Suffolk Food Hall: Vanished – Prof Campbell’s Lab

Ipswich, Dec 2017

Suffolk Food Hall is a rather wonderful food emporium on the southern fringes of Ipswich, with everything from local produce to garden supplies… and also a pair of escape rooms. It’s one of the more surprising venues I’ve seen, but I guess they had… (more)

Ipswich Escape Rooms: The Secret Clubhouse

Ipswich, Dec 2017

You might find the backstory for this game a little perplexing: it involves a boy called Jan Tleskac who has a flying bicycle, and a certain puzzle called ‚the Hedgehog in the Cage‘. It is in fact based on a series of Czech 1940s children’s stories, … (more)

Agent November: Christmas Crisis

London, Dec 2017

Christmas is in trouble again, after a crash has left Santa lying in a snowdrift and you with the responsibility for sorting everything out. At least, I think that was the premise – if I didn’t catch all the details of the story, I blame that on the … (more)

Paper Escapes: Volume 2: Survive the F5

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2017

In the ancient long-gone days of six months ago, back when an ‚escape room book‘ was an entirely new concept to me, I tried the first Paper Escapes book and was unimpressed. It was therefore a good sign that its sequel has had a ground-up redesign. I… (more)

Ivan Tapia: The Escape Book

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2017

Whereas boxed escape rooms are now thoroughly established with about three dozen products available, book-based escape games are still very novel. Newly translated from its original Spanish, The Escape Book claims to be the first of its kind, which m… (more)

The Room: The Beast of Berlin

Berlin, Nov 2017

Second of the three games currently available at The Room, The Beast of Berlin has you investigating a serial killer, and is significantly darker than its two sibling games. Whereas I’d encourage you to play their other games with a team of 2-3, Beas… (more)

The Room: The Lost Treasure

Berlin, Nov 2017

I’ve seen more than one enthusiast describe Lost Treasure as the best escape room in Europe. Of course, tastes vary, and no one person can play more than a selection of the games available, so clearly any such claim is only a matter of subjective opt… (more)

The Room: Go West

Berlin, Nov 2017

We played the three games at The Room in the order in which they were created, starting with their oldest, in which your goal is to escape from Cold War era East Berlin through to the freedom of the West. That’s a theme that could mean a gritty, seri… (more)

House of Tales: Columbus

Berlin, Nov 2017

House of Tales‘ popup game imagines a world in which Christopher Columbus gave up his ambitions to sail the seas, and instead became a carpenter specialising in boxes. (Okay, there’s a story about it being the storage hold on his sea voyages or somet… (more)