Tag Archives: period historical

Exciting Escapes: Dark Deeds and Groceries

Basingstoke, Dec 2017

With three successful games under their belt at their Southampton branch, Exciting Escapes have expanded to a second branch in Basingstoke, with one copy of their original game plus two new ones. Dark Deeds is the first of those new games and has a 1… (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 5: Escape the Lost Colony

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2017

A small disappointment with the Crate series has always been that despite the name they actually arrive as a plain brown cardboard box. The fifth chapter is a nice step up in this respect – although it’s certainly not an actual crate, it’s now a much… (more)

Escape Room The Game: Murder Mystery

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Murder Mystery is one of the two expansion scenarios so far released for Escape Room The Game (at time of writing, another two are pending translation to English). Where the other expansion, Welcome to Funland, made me warm to the series, this one im… (more)

Scavenger Escape: Mozart’s Mystery

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Scavengers Escape’s Salzburg branch has three games, and our choice to play the Mozart one was mainly dictated by timing and by it being described as the hardest of their games. It seemed likely to be another game based around padlocks and old furnit… (more)

Mystery Rooms: Captain’s Secret

Munich, Aug 2017

By all rights Mystery Rooms ought to have been quite sick of us after we moved our booking time to an earlier slot, called again a few minutes later to bump it back to its original time, then arrived at the game a full twenty minutes late. But they w… (more)

Claustrophobia: 221B Baker Street

Tallinn, Jul 2017

For some reason Sherlock Holmes keeps leaving in the middle of a case and so we find ourselves again clearing up his mess in another unsolved mystery.

The entry way is delightful, featuring a beautiful dog with lovely eyes (albeit looking slightly a… (more)

Tulleys Escape: The Outfitters

Crawley, Aug 2017

The world of scare attractions is not one I’m particularly familiar with, but apparently Tulleys Farm is well known there for their Shocktober event every Halloween. They’ve now expanded into escape rooms as well, with two rooms now open; The Outfitt… (more)

Find Exit: 221B Baker Street

Riga, Jul 2017

The aim of this escape game is to identify the name and location of a murder culprit from the clues left behind in Sherlock Holmes‘ office, so as to save an innocent friend of yours from imminent judicial execution. Finding that information will also… (more)

Inside Out Escape: Finding Sherlock Holmes

London, Jul 2017

Inside Out’s original game is Sherlock themed, and your job is to discover at which of Professor Moriarty’s hideouts the famous detective is being held prisoner.

This room looks distinctly better than their other CSI game. The atmosphere is achieved… (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Scarlet Shadow

Exeter, Jun 2017

The Scarlet Shadow is a 1940s detective story dripping with noir cool. The titular Shadow is a legendary mask which you may recognise from their Heist game. While hot on the trail of this artefact, the intrepid adventurer Jack Armstrong has been kidn… (more)