Schlagwort-Archive: period historical

Exciting Escapes: Breaking The Law

Southampton, May 2017

Each game at Exciting Escapes is set in, and themed for, a specific decade, and Breaking The Law is their 70s game. While that’s an era sometimes remembered for cheerless economic depression, I found this game to be joyously fun and my personal favou… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Change The Record

Southampton, May 2017

Change the Record is a fun, brightly coloured game set in a believable (if modest) record store. If you’re like me, the fantastic 80s pop soundtrack and puzzles featuring popular tracks from the 80s will trigger a nostalgic glee that carries you thro… (more)

Exciting Escapes: A Hidden Past

Southampton, May 2017

The briefing: you’ve been brought in by MI6 to investigate a suspected traitor, find out what happened and any incriminating evidence.

From the start it feels like a cold war spy thriller – a seemingly innocent 1950s house all decorated to theme, w… (more)

Escapologic: Curio

Nottingham, May 2017

One of the challenges of writing reviews of escape rooms is giving a clear impression of the experience while avoiding spoilers. There are some rooms where this is particularly difficult because that means I can’t talk about a core element of the roo… (more)

Breakin‘ Escape Games: Sherlock’s Despair

London, Feb 2017

The third Breakin‘ game I played, Sherlock’s Despair is a much more traditional style of room – period furniture and padlocked drawers, four digit codes and charts of symbols.

I’d describe it as a somewhat more intellectual style of escape room, by … (more)

Brain Game CPH: The Last Passenger

Copenhagen, Jan 2017

A linear, lightly themed game with plenty of padlocks, this room tries to incorporate some more creative touches but does so in an incoherent way that made it a frustrating game to play.

The theme is loosely based on Murder on the Orient Express, an… (more)

ThinkFun Escape The Room: Secret of Dr. Gravely’s Retreat

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2016

There are now several boxed escape games on the market, but this is the first one our group had tried, so we weren’t entirely sure what to expect. The first and most important question is: does it work as a substitute for an escape room? The answer, … (more)

Puzzlescape: The Diamond Hunt

Norfolk, Dec 2016

Based in Dereham, Norfolk, this room is somewhat off the beaten path, and turned out to have been set up by a father and son who discovered escape games and decided to build their own.

As you might guess it’s a relatively low-tech, low-budget build … (more)

Escape in Time: Secret Studio

London, Oct 2016

This room was a cut above the rest from the moment we arrived. Set up and run by enthusiasts from an actual film studio, the props and theming were outstanding and the room has a couple of moments in particular that really stand out.

One puzzle was … (more)

Escape Entertainment: Prohibition Pandemonium

London, Apr 2016

A large-team room with a prohibition-era pub theme, the operators use a public booking system where you can play with strangers – though we had a team of seven and had it to ourselves anyhow.

It’s very robustly constructed, with every single prop an… (more)