by Breakout Liverpool (website)
7-11 Sir Thomas Street, L1 6BW
2-5 players
60 minutes
Player review
Review by Scotus0 expert

A Cheeky Bit
of Time Travel
My second of four rooms as part of a full day of escaping at Breakout Liverpool.
Story
A science boffin of a friend has invited you to check out her time machine. However,
when you turn up, she’s nowhere to be seen…this results in you using the
invention to find her stuff she’s left in the past, or something along those
lines.
Puzzles
This room did a good job of incorporating items specific to the time you were
in for completing things. The puzzles themselves were fundamentally textbook:
there was nothing unexpected. I’d seen them all before, which obviously isn’t a
problem, it’s just that there was nothing there to wow a more experienced
escaper.
Mise-en-scene
Ever changing! As you travel through time, each zone represents a particular period,
although some were more distinguishable than others. Music and props mostly alluded
to the point in history we were in, though sometimes they struck me as being irrelevant-
or non-existent.
Final Comments
We broke out with just over ten minutes to spare. It’s disappointing when a story
is left unresolved, and it wouldn’t take much time/effort to wrap it up in one
way or another.