by Escape Leamington Spa (website)
27 Park Street, CV32 4QN
2-5 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 24 users
combined with 5 pro reviews
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Player reviews
Lab Life
I’m sad to hear that Escape Blackpool is no longer open, as this was an impressive room.
Story
You and your fellow scientists have contracted a virus that’s killing the world. Create a vaccine and escape the locked-down laboratory before it’s incinerated! A scenario that I now know is very, very common in the world of escape rooms, but this was my first time saving the world from a deadly disease.
Puzzles
This was a very tricky room! There were several clever features and quirky uses of apparatus that you’d expect/hope to see in a lab-themed escape.
Mise-en-scène
Very white, very polished, very lab-like! The props provided appropriate touches: science utensils, reading material and gear. I love any room where outfits are given, and so the lab coats were appreciated.
Final Comments
We only received one hint from our Game Operator, and this was on how/where to use a particular tool. She clearly knew exactly what time(s) teams need a hint. It was a good room for a team of both beginners and more experienced players.
Wasn't much in this room, it wasn't bad but I would recommend spending your money on another room.
This was a fun room, our main complaint was that it felt like we were given a bit too much information at the start. There weren’t loads of tactile interactive elements so this room was less about searching and props than it was about logic and puzzling.
Last clue was just ridiculously obscure.
Reviews by escape room review sites
Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.
The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...
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- Escape Blackpool: Contagion (Blackpool) (closed)
- Escape Dundee: Contagion (Dundee) (closed)
- Escape Edinburgh: Contagion (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Glasgow: Contagion (Glasgow) (closed)
- Escape Ipswich: Contagion (Ipswich)
- Escape Hull: Contagion (Kingston upon Hull) (closed)
- Escape Peterborough: Contagion (Peterborough) (closed)
- Escape Lincoln: Contagion (Lincoln)
- Escape Dublin: Contagion (Dublin)