Exciting Escapes Basingstoke: Breaking The Law

by Exciting Escapes Basingstoke (website)

First Floor, Chiltern House, Feathers Yard, RG21 7AT

2-5 players

60 minutes

The year is 1977, international tension is fierce and British Intelligence cannot allow government secrets to fall into the wrong hands! They believe that Detective Inspector Monroe, of the Metropolitan Police, has been providing foreign powers with intel.

The catch? The evidence is in his Police Station – they just need you to break in and find it…

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Played: 3 Nov 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:54 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Played: 24 Aug 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Played: 4 Feb 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 44 Outcome: Successful escape!

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This was definitely a fun room and nice to have more than one challenge to meet to actually escape. That said, I think it's an older room and a couple of the puzzles possibly felt slightly "left behind" in the escape room world BUT that isn't to say don't play it, because we still had fun!!

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Played: 28 Dec 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:55 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Played: September 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45m

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Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Played: 27 Aug 2023 Team size: 00:37:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Relatively straight forward room with you infiltrating a police station (as opposed to breaking out of one!) and trying to find proof of treason. Theming is relatively on point with the usual mix of puzzles, couple with a couple of physical ones where communication is essential to success. This is good fun executed competently, nothing here will surprise you but neither will it infuriate you.

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Played: 10 Apr 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 39

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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 favourite of the three at the venue.

The aim of the game is to find a briefcase of evidence locked in the office of a corrupt detective. Some aspects of the game I'll have to skirt around for spoiler reasons, but a central challenge described in the pre-...

reviewed in Southampton

Probably the best of the three games at Exciting Escapes. Solid puzzles with a strong physical element, a real sense of progress during the game and a thrilling finale added up to a highly enjoyable experience.

reviewed in Southampton