Escape Hunt Watford: Escape The Wild West

The host was lovely but the game was very bad. We paid £99 for the experience and it only took half an hour, we were not trying to be quick. A few ‘misdirects’ (puzzles with no solution to throw you off). Too many padlocks requiring 4 digit codes, not enough variety. The host had to activate some releases, including one where we just had to tell the host the answer to a riddle, which didn’t really work narratively. When boxes released there was no springing open/other indication of the door being released- you  had to pull on the door (which we didn’t try too hard as we didn’t want to use undue force). The puzzles weren’t satisfying to complete. The final puzzle required coal collected from previous puzzles throughout the room but there was seemingly no mechanical purpose for it so it wasn’t a satisfying conclusion. We didn’t even need to use all the coal collected. Overall we were really disappointed and feel very ripped off. We bought it for a birthday event and it provided 30 mins entertainment. We’ve done quite a few escape rooms before but we’re not very good at them, we usually take the full hour. 

A completely cynical cash grab with clearly no desire to design a fun or challenging escape room. Would not recommend.