Lucardo Rawtenstall: Gem Runner

Another good room from Lucardo.  My least favourite of all their rooms but that's just because I enjoyed the others so much.  I wasn't a fan of a couple of the puzzles as I felt there were obvious ways to make them better. But still a lot of fun.

Rawtenstall's bank theme is really well done, you do have the feeling to enter a town bank. The owners later told us that the props and decorations are coming from a real bank, which clearly explains why the room looks so authentic. The soundtrack was really good as well, really made us feel like bank thieves. 🙂   The puzzles are quite enjoyable and some of them I've never seen before. The escape though, felt a bit anticlimactic as two locks were left open by mistake when resetting the room. Our host had to send us the message "You have all you need, escape!" despite us still having two unfinished puzzles but holding the loot we were looking for. Overall, it's a very good room with one big surprise and loads of small interesting ones (that I don't want to mention to keep the surprise) that kept us laughing. Not to the same level as their two other current rooms in my opinion, but still one to not miss! 🙂

Although this room has now been closed at Lucardo Rawtenstall, we had a chance to play it a fee months back. Like all the games we have played at Lucardo Rawtenstall this didn't disappoint, very well thought out theme and puzzles, and the hosting as always was great.

We did get out with 26 minutes to spare, but that is mainly because we were a team of 5 pretty experienced escape enthusiasts. If it ever comes back I highly recommend!