Break Free Leicester: Curse of the Sphynx

Honestly, this room contains more padlocks than needed. It's very padlock-driven, with puzzles after puzzles, which leaves little room for immersion, story, originality, or even a sense of enjoyment. The logic isn't necessarily an issue, there's no room for it. It's all about cracking obscure (both literally and figuratively speaking) codes as fast as you can, so it gets rapidly draining and repetitive. 

If you love opening dozens of padlock in semi darkness in what is supposed to be an Egyptian tomb, this may feel like heaven for you. For anyone else, this should be a pass. 

That being said, we had an amazing game master, who cheered with us when we escaped. But even she wasn't enough to save the room. 

Enjoyed this room, lots of padlocks but were signposted well. A clever use of space which we hadn't seen before in a room and were pleasantly surprised with. We really clicked with the room and as a team of 2 just happily quietly got on with puzzles with no frustrations or clues needed (sections are sort of non linear so can be done at the same time).

The room needs a good clean though, the dolls stank badly and could do with a wash! There was also times when we opened boxes and their hinges entirely came off, and padlocks were rusty - it could really do with a week of maintenance just to put everything back to a good standard (it was 30pp after all!) so cannot rate it any higher because of that. 

Fun, family friendly room. Logical puzzles and lots of things to be doing. Hosting was brilliant.

Was pitched as ClueHQ's more difficult game but it wasn't particularly interesting. Just seemed to have more padlocks to do rather than any more interesting or challenging puzzles to solve.