Kategorie-Archive: UK

Escape Entertainment: Prohibition Pandemonium

London, Apr 2016

A large-team room with a prohibition-era pub theme, the operators use a public booking system where you can play with strangers – though we had a team of seven and had it to ourselves anyhow.

It’s very robustly constructed, with every single prop an… (more)

Escape Entertainment: Bank Heist

London, Apr 2016

This room stood out for the sheer crazy number of keys involved – when you’re used to getting excited over each hard-won key, it’s entertaining to have such a profusion of the things.

For a heist theme I’d point players to Enigma Quests or maybe Clu… (more)

Mind The Game: The Crazy Prof

London, Apr 2016

While there’s not a great deal that was stand-out or unusually creative about this game, it’s a solid escape room with decent puzzles. The theme and story are fairly minimal, but it’s one I’d comfortably recommend and expect players to enjoy.(more)

Enter the Oubliette: Escape from New Pelagia

London, Mar 2016

It is a tragedy that this room had to close after losing their venue, since it was probably my most highly recommended escape room – fingers crossed they manage to re-open somewhere else.

The immersion and attention to detail was at a whole differen… (more)

Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve

London, Aug 2015

Instead of trying to escape, you’re trying to retrieve a bottle of wine; while that makes little practical difference, it’s nice to vary the genre a little. The room is one of the physically smallest I’ve done, though we had a team of five and it fel… (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)

Escape Hunt Entertainment: Theft from the Laboratory

London, Jun 2015

To be honest, I don’t remember this room particularly clearly, though I do remember thinking it was fairly average at best. And since it’s now closed down, I’m going to leave it at that, at least until I get a chance to play one of their many, many f… (more)

Trapped In A Room With A Zombie

London, Feb 2015

This is, of course, a rather different kind of escape room. Avoiding the zombie, and distracting the zombie so that you can access objects in the far side of the room, becomes as much of a focus as the puzzles themselves.

The zombie himself was outs… (more)

Cluequest: Operation: Blacksheep

London, Jun 2016

Cluequest are clearly a professional outfit and whilst the initial welcome might be a bit rushed, the staff clearly try to take care of you once you get going. Blacksheep is the second of their 3 rooms. It was a marked improvement on their first in t… (more)