Lucardo Manchester: Espionage

By | March 20, 2019

by Lucardo Manchester (website)

Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD

Manchester

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

closed
Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details
The year is 1938, just prior to the outbreak of WWII. You and your team are part of the newly founded British Secret Intelligence Service. The War Office has had a number of classified documents stolen, which are thought to be held in a secret enemy bunker. Intelligence tells us the guards change every hour. Your Mission: crack the bunker security codes and recover the documents before the guards change.
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Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 12 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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Jess_keds expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
MerseyMarauders expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 24 Aug 2019

Very similar to other rooms in this theme. 

Exotic Turtle experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 18 Sep 2021 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 18 Sep 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 34 Outcome: Successful escape!
unoriginal
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 30 Jan 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 39.57 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyquite easy

Fun, but fairly easy. Not as immersive as Lucardo usually is.

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 21 Apr 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 39:38 Outcome: Successful escape!
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 12/11/16
matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 20 Aug 2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyrelaxed

#18

We went and did The Orphanage, Espionage and then Gem Runner. This room for us was middle of the road, not bad but not too exciting. It didn’t feel like there was much pressure to escape, and from what I remember we had a decent amount of time left. Not a scratch on the University of Magic at the same venue.

🦑cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
PurpleB expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: Jan 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

A decent room but a couple of puzzles had multiple interpretations which isn't itself a problem but, when coupled with no indication of which puzzle belongs to which lock, leaves you having to try so many different combinations it becomes a bit tedious.

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Having rattled through the two Lucardo games that we'd booked and finished them well ahead of schedule, the staff kindly managed to squeeze us into a third room despite it being a busy Saturday daytime. Espionage is set in 1938 and has you stealing classified documents from an enemy bunker; this translates into a room of puzzles designed around WW2 era military equipment and related props.

All the Lucardo games I've seen are quite non-linear, with a lot of padlocks to open and a mix of puzzles ...

This room certainly won’t give you any surprises, nor will it wow you, but it is still a decent room. For us though, this was the weakest of the rooms at Lucardo (Manchester) - but they had set the bar high.

A simply themed game that’s fun and not too difficult – a perfect game for beginners.
I’d heard a lot of good things about Lucardo and so when I knew I’d have a Saturday evening free in Manchester it was top of my to-do list. Espionage is a World War II themed room with very little linearity and mostly straightforward puzzles, great for beginners.

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