Kategorie-Archive: International

Claustrophobia: Stormy Ocean

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Short of having the room rock from side to side or spraying you with cold salt water, they’d be hard put to improve the decor here.

The room was a succession of good on-theme puzzles, with barely a padlock to be seen. It’s perhaps on the easy side, … (more)

Get Away Zone: Red Alert

Tallinn, Jun 2016

It’s difficult to review this room because it included one very memorable moment which I’m avoiding talking about so as not to spoil it, and which is something of a ‚love it or hate it‘ element.

Other than that, it was mostly a middle-tier room with… (more)

We made a point of playing this room because the concept sounded fun – the team split in different time zones, co-operating to find a way to re-unite and escape. (The operators described it that way to us before we booked, so I’m not counting that as… (more)

Cryptex: Bomb

Prague, Jul 2015

There was a nice contraption for one of the puzzles… that unfortunately didn’t work properly for either of our teams. It was a reasonable room, definitely on the hard side so perhaps worth trying for teams looking for a challenge; but on the whole … (more)

Cryptex: Lost Treasure

Prague, Jul 2015

Like Cryptex’s other room, the decor is fairly simple. I remember this room as an example of how use of UV can be frustrating: there were a considerable number of scraps of paper and other objects, and when we unearthed a UV torch we then had to labo… (more)

Puzzle Rooms: Golem’s Hideaway

Prague, Jul 2015

The problem with doing six rooms in two days is that, when reviewing them sixteen months later, the details get hazy. But I remember this room as being decent without being spectacular.(more)

Mind Maze: Enigma

Prague, Jul 2015

Interestingly, I’ve never yet played a WW2-themed escape room that I didn’t enjoy. Maybe the era just lends itself to high quality props and nice theming.

The opening sequence of this room was particularly satisfying; while the similarly-themed Lond… (more)

Mind Maze: Alchemist’s Room

Prague, Jul 2015

I have a soft spot for this one since it was the first time we completed a room to find that we’d beaten the record. On the other hand, that meant we rattled through in just over twenty minutes and so got less puzzle time than expected!

Lovely decor… (more)

Mission Escape Games: Escape the Nemesis

New York, Aug 2016

I was really impressed by this room. Although the setup was quite corporate, the staff were incredibly welcoming and engaging. The room itself is deliberately designed with puzzles in ascending order of difficulty, so you felt you’d got some stuff do… (more)

59:59 Room Escape: Escape from the Chamber of Dreams

New York, Aug 2016

I liked the theme in this room and although it’s more challenging than Hound of the Baskervilles, I found it more enjoyable. It still has a distinctly budget feel however and overall I’d put both of these rooms lower down the list(more)