Schlagwort-Archive: period historical

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Pudding Lane

Reading, Feb 2020

Those who are less familiar with London history might assume Pudding Lane is confectionary themed – but of course this game is actually named after the place where the Great Fire of London began in 1666. Your team has been sent back in time, not to p… (more)

Unlock!: Arsène Lupin and the Great White Diamond

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Arsène Lupin is another totem of French culture almost completely unknown to me, but who seems to be a mysterious but gallant master thief. In Unlock!’s game you are not the legendary criminal himself but a group of street urchins to whom Lupin has s… (more)

Pier Pressure: Preston Manor

Brighton, Oct 2019

Despite having been to Brighton any number of times, I was completely unaware of Preston Manor. It seems it’s an Edwardian manor house well preserved as a museum piece, with a relatively unimposing exterior but rather stunning inside, interesting for… (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Shadow Darkens

Exeter, Jun 2019

The Shadow Darkens is a sequel and replacement for Red House’s earlier game, The Scarlet Shadow. Both follow the adventures and tribulations of their noir detective Jack Armstrong, and a certain magical mask. The earlier game had you searching Jack’s… (more)

The Game: L’enlèvement (The Kidnapping)

Paris, Oct 2018

The Game send in character welcome emails after you book one of their rooms, and the one for The Kidnapping is written as a plea for help: the author’s sister has been kidnapped, and the perpetrators are demanding a particular valuable abject as her … (more)

Trapped In Bury: Time Machine

Bury, Sep 2018

Having time to play only three of the six games on offer at Trapped In Bury, Time Machine was the one I picked more or less at random to complete our schedule, based mainly on it sounding like a theme with potential to be interesting. In fact, it tur… (more)

Other World Escapes: Vermilion

Southampton, Jul 2018

The second game from Other World is Vermilion, and has clearly been designed as a race game: there are two side by side copies, placed so that two teams can be briefed together then start at the same time. We played as just one team, with an unrelat… (more)

Escapepolis: Roswell 1947

Athens, Jun 2018

You are a reporter in 1947 and your girlfriend who works as a nurse in the nearby Roswell airbase morgue has gone missing after telling you she had discovered something exciting.

The room manager spoke with some passion about how stories drive his … (more)

Pier Pressure: Pavilion Perplex

Brighton, May 2018

As any frequent visitor to Brighton knows, the Pavilion is a flamboyant and florid palace constructed with domes and minarets at a time when the British upper classes were infatuated with anything Oriental. The first game from recently opened Pier Pr… (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Hunt

Peterborough, Feb 2018

My experience of Escape is that their games are reliably decent, but that the decor and atmosphere are rarely a particular strength – typically a nice enough set of props and themed puzzle components but usually starting from generic office space tha… (more)