Lucardo Manchester: University of Magic: The Entrance Exam

By | März 20, 2019

von Lucardo Manchester (webseite)

Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD

Manchester

2-6 Spieler

60 minuten

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You have been offered a place to study at the mystical University of Magic. In order to secure your place, you will need to cast spells, recite incantations, mix potions and battle with dark forces. Do you have what it takes to play this ultimate escape room and become the next Witch or Wizard of the University of Magic?
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🔐SpontaneousIllusion experte hat dies bewertet:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Ergebnis: Gescheitert 🙁
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d.green26 experte hat dies bewertet:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Gespielt am: 25 Oct 2023 Teamgröße: 2 Benötigte Zeit: n/a Ergebnis: Gescheitert 🙁
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I feel that this room has either changed or been over reviewed in the past as I picked this room due to the good reviews and it certainly didn't live up to it. We have done over 150 rooms now but this had puzzles that just didn't really make sense and some that fell flat. I did get really frustrated with one puzzle which they had to guide us through in the end and could have been us having a bad day but we wasted so much time on it. Most of the room looked fine but the main puzzle towards the end the props really let it down. I unfortunately cant recommend this for enthusiasts.  A good team that didn't have the same problem as us would also go through this quite fast as there didn't seem to be as many puzzles as most rooms.

🌵Juliette B experte hat dies bewertet:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Gespielt am: 12/07/2019 Teamgröße: 2 Ergebnis: Entkommen!

Great room, our favourite of the 3 we played there. Very well themed and some great puzzles. Recommended if in the area. 

Scotus0 experte hat dies bewertet:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Gespielt am: 19/01/2020 Teamgröße: 4 Benötigte Zeit: 47:34 Ergebnis: Entkommen!

Sorcery on a Sunday!

I came here for my final (at least for now) Lucardo challenge with a few friends.

Story

Secure your place at the University of Magic by finding a wand and mixing a potion.

Puzzles

There were some truly unique, ‘magical’ tasks closely related to the theme/story. We required two or three hints, but none of them were overly complicated. The previous group had written the answer to the penultimate puzzle down, and this wasn’t rubbed off prior to us going in. While we still effectively solved it, the information we shouldn’t have had made it obvious we were doing it correctly. Since the answer didn’t become accessible until right near the end, it wasn’t too big a deal.

Mise-en-scène

A quirky, close-packed room that utilised every inch of available space for brooms, wands, quills, creatures and potions. I identified a fair few of Poundland’s Halloween wares as props, but if you don’t know, some of them do look authentic. There was one item that struck me as impressively Harry Potter-esque, but not quite as interactive as it perhaps should have been. As a whole, the room did feel part of an immersive, wizarding world.

Final Comments

An impersonal brief was saved by another bouncy Game Operator who welcomed us into the room in-character. I wouldn’t take more than 4 people, or else you’ll be struggling for puzzles to solve.

Allie Abbott hat dies bewertet:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Gespielt am: 02/01/20 Teamgröße: 3 Benötigte Zeit: 35 Ergebnis: Entkommen!
imrahil erfahren hat dies bewertet:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Teamgröße: 2 Ergebnis: Entkommen!
PurpleB experte hat dies bewertet:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Gespielt am: Jan 2020 Teamgröße: 2 Ergebnis: Entkommen!

A great set and some interesting well-themed puzzles.  The game was let down a bit by the last puzzle though, which was lacking proper constraints and required you to make assumptions which didn't fit with the story.

🦡cipherdelic virtuose hat dies bewertet:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Anonym hat dies bewertet:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Gespielt am: 28/10/2020 Teamgröße: 2 Ergebnis: Entkommen!

Really good room by Lucardo. We were hoping to complete this room since we did Dragon's Heart back in 2018.

It really didn't disappoint but we were left a bit lost by the story, we didn't know what the aim of the room was, not sure if we missed it in the introduction video (which had very low volume) so once all the padlocks and doors were opened, we lost a bit of time trying to understand why we were meant to do.

The game master (Emma, I believe) was fantastic. She really is enthusiastic about escape rooms so it made our experience even better as she knew to wait before sending us clues.

Anonymous hat dies bewertet:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Gespielt am: 13 Aug 2021 Teamgröße: 3 Benötigte Zeit: 55 Ergebnis: Entkommen!
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Quite fun and magical feeling, and impressed with the props! Slight downside that I feel like some of the puzzles weren't so challenging and leaned slightly too much towards the looking around for things

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Well deserving of its great reputation University of Magic was a fun, well-decorated room and, while the challenges focus more on observation than hard puzzles, there's still some meat in there to keep you busy.
Due to bad experiences in the past we tend to stay away from magic themed rooms, but this one has restored our faith. Now we need to head to the Lucardo Rawtenstall branch to check out the sequel!
It’s an extremely popular game and we could see why. It’s a beautifully themed and high-quality game with good puzzles excellently tied into the theme. 

Lucardo has built a reputation in the UK for quality games and had long been on my wish list of places I wanted to visit. They entered the online market in mid-2020 with Gemrunner (which I rated highly for its design and the overall experience). I’ve not had the chance to play Safe House as yet so when the opportunity came up to play the University of Magic I immediately signed on. Along with Prisons, pirates and sci-fi, Magic is one of my go-to themes.

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