Kategorie-Archive: Bristol

Riddlr: The Brunel Enigma

Bristol, Apr 2018

The Brunel room is an eclectic room, filled with steampunk paraphanelia and puzzles embedded in the walls and furniture.

It was a busy game with an interesting and well themed hint system, which we had mixed feelings about. It’s not a spoiler to say… (more)

Escape Hunt: The Fourth Samurai

Bristol, Apr 2018

The Fourth Samurai tells the tale of some samurais, another samurai, a meteor that fell to earth, and a beautiful sword.

The room is clean, minimalist, brightly lit, and spacious. Beautiful decorations and very few red herrings make the game fun to … (more)

Puzzlair: The Lab of Dr. Lev Pasted

Bristol, Jun 2017

Puzzlair is closely related to Hint Hunt, and as such was one of the first escape venues in the UK. They also share the John Monroe game design, and of the many locations across Europe that also offer that game, a good proportion of them also have Le… (more)

Puzzlair: The Poltergeist Room

Bristol, Jun 2017

Given a choice of games I tend to choose the one that doesn’t have a horror theme, not so much because I object to a gory or scary room but because after a while the bloodied plastic body parts and other staples start to get a bit tired. But Polterge… (more)

Puzzlair: The Prison Van

Bristol, Jun 2017

Puzzlair is split across two venues, and strictly speaking Prison Van isn’t in either of them – it’s played in an actual prison van parked outside their Barton Road. If that sounds cramped – well, it’s a pretty big van, and there were only three of u… (more)

Puzzlair: The Secret Agent Room

Bristol, Nov 2016

This room seemed fairly traditional on the surface. The theme was very cold-war spy, and well implemented – without too many distractions. (But with a satisfying number of James Bonds watching you work!)

The puzzles suited the theme all the way thro… (more)

Hell in a Cell

Bristol, Nov 2016

Hell in a Cell is a room for a large team, and makes heavy use of darkness and atmospherics. The puzzles would be mostly pretty easy in a brightly lit room… but they’re mostly pretty easy anyway, because the staff push you hard in the right directi… (more)

Puzzlair: The Warehouse of Jack Travis

Bristol, Nov 2016

Puzzlair do old-school escape rooms – by which I mean this room was a long sequence of padlocks. But if that sounds like lazy design, it’s not, at least in this case. The decor is stripped down but on-theme, and the puzzles are varied and satisfying…. (more)