Xscape Rooms: The Mystery Of SPUG

A first gen escape room that would be great to introduce people to the concept of escape rooms or if you are in north wales for a holiday and are jonesing for an escape room fix. 

It is quite a plain room but having worked in a post office I can honestly say that it is actually very like the real thing… thankfully it didn’t have Horizon…

I liked the puzzles - a mix of linear and non-linear at different difficulty levels. Everything flowed and we didn’t need clues. 

We took my parents along, it was my dad’s third and mum’s debut. They loved it. Really helped having them along because - as is usual - we overthought a few puzzles. 

If you finish with a lot of time left you can attempt another round of puzzles. We were going a bit slow to give parents chance to see/solve themselves so didn’t get to that part. The completer finisher in me was a little frustrated we didn’t get to do everything, although our lovely host Ella told us nobody has been able to finish 100%.

Only criticism is I’m still not 100% about what Spug is and am kicking myself for not asking! They do turn you around quite quickly if they have a team in afterwards. 

We will come back another time to try the prisoner room and the new room they’re building. 

Set in the council offices and up a couple of flights of stairs - poss issue for those with accessibility issues but you can take it slow.