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Cryptex: Bomb

Prague, Jul 2015

There was a nice contraption for one of the puzzles… that unfortunately didn’t work properly for either of our teams. It was a reasonable room, definitely on the hard side so perhaps worth trying for teams looking for a challenge; but on the whole … (more)

Cryptex: Lost Treasure

Prague, Jul 2015

Like Cryptex’s other room, the decor is fairly simple. I remember this room as an example of how use of UV can be frustrating: there were a considerable number of scraps of paper and other objects, and when we unearthed a UV torch we then had to labo… (more)

Puzzle Rooms: Golem’s Hideaway

Prague, Jul 2015

The problem with doing six rooms in two days is that, when reviewing them sixteen months later, the details get hazy. But I remember this room as being decent without being spectacular.(more)

Mind Maze: Enigma

Prague, Jul 2015

Interestingly, I’ve never yet played a WW2-themed escape room that I didn’t enjoy. Maybe the era just lends itself to high quality props and nice theming.

The opening sequence of this room was particularly satisfying; while the similarly-themed Lond… (more)

Mind Maze: Alchemist’s Room

Prague, Jul 2015

I have a soft spot for this one since it was the first time we completed a room to find that we’d beaten the record. On the other hand, that meant we rattled through in just over twenty minutes and so got less puzzle time than expected!

Lovely decor… (more)

Mission Escape Games: Escape the Nemesis

New York, Aug 2016

I was really impressed by this room. Although the setup was quite corporate, the staff were incredibly welcoming and engaging. The room itself is deliberately designed with puzzles in ascending order of difficulty, so you felt you’d got some stuff do… (more)

59:59 Room Escape: Escape from the Chamber of Dreams

New York, Aug 2016

I liked the theme in this room and although it’s more challenging than Hound of the Baskervilles, I found it more enjoyable. It still has a distinctly budget feel however and overall I’d put both of these rooms lower down the list(more)

59:59 Room Escape: Escape from the Hound of the Baskervilles

New York, Aug 2016

Although this was quite a welcoming room, it was a very basic setup, with parallel padlocks, and a lack of subtlety in the clues(more)

Hell in a Cell

Bristol, Nov 2016

Hell in a Cell is a room for a large team, and makes heavy use of darkness and atmospherics. The puzzles would be mostly pretty easy in a brightly lit room… but they’re mostly pretty easy anyway, because the staff push you hard in the right directi… (more)

Puzzlair: The Warehouse of Jack Travis

Bristol, Nov 2016

Puzzlair do old-school escape rooms – by which I mean this room was a long sequence of padlocks. But if that sounds like lazy design, it’s not, at least in this case. The decor is stripped down but on-theme, and the puzzles are varied and satisfying…. (more)