Escapologic: Contraption

By | March 20, 2019

by Escapologic (website)

21 Castle Gate, NG1 7AQ

Nottingham

2-5 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

Strange machinery breathes in the stillness of the laboratory. Bubbles rise in a mysterious green liquid. Cogs click. Gears clank. And in the air, the unmistakable sound of fear...

As your breathing stills and your pulse slows to normal, you take a look around. What happened here? Somebody left the room in a hurry. But why? Your eyes grow accustomed to the dim, dusty light, and you begin to make out the discarded pieces of arcane mechanisms. There has to be a pattern, a code, something to show you the way out.

Contraption was the first of our Nottingham escape rooms, and its fiendish ingenuity has given it legendary status. Can you put the clues together before the clock hits zero?

Employ a combination of wits, nerve and inspiration to beat the machine and find your way out. With false steps at every corner, willing you to fail, the only way to outwit Contraption is to work together. Use your team's individual skills to solve physical and mental puzzles, crack cryptic codes, and unravel the secret escape route left by the mysterious inventor.

Solve the riddle, or the last sound youโ€™ll hear will be the cogs of the lock, as they turn and seal you in forever. 


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Rated between 3 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 34 users
combined with 12 pro reviews

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liam and rosie experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 46
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Matthew Canner rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Escapetopus experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 08/06/2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

A couple of equipment fails prevent this room from scoring more highly for me. 

A clever central concept and a fun steampunk-laboratory setting (complete with on-theme clues) tie all the puzzles together. The original room at Escapologic but it (mostly) belies its age.

Aine Morgan rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Daniel Dano Waite rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Durkules rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
๐Ÿฆกcipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 19/09/2020 Team size: 3 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!

a really nice looking room (not literally), some ingenious puzzles, great concepts and a great clue system. Really on theme all the way through

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
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Contraption is Escapologic's original game, the first of what is now eight different escape rooms at their Nottingham location, and it's clear why the venue made a splash from the outset. The game is a steampunk-y fest of cogs and pipes and machines that dispenses with padlocks in favour of an array of imaginatively different mechanisms.

Your first task on entering the room is to turn on the lights. It's not pitch black, fortunately (there are enough metal doodads around that the room might be ...

A game that turns the usual escape room setup on its head by having a smaller number of larger puzzles. As with most Escapologic rooms, don't expect a plethora of padlocks but instead a mass of mechanisms - in fact, as the name suggests, expect even more than usual!
Like most of the rooms at Escapologic this was a linear room with very strong set design. Don't get distracted by all the funky items and you should be fine
Weโ€™d heard such good things about Escapologic, hence a Nottingham trip to play five of their games, starting with their very first: Contraption. Or Con-trap-tion as itโ€™s styled in the logo. And it was good. It was fine. It was al-righ-t.
On the 6th of March, we headed back to Escapologic in Nottingham to take on another of their escape games, We had already tackled the likes of Butcher, Howitz, Robin, EPICentre, Cryptic and Curio which are all stellar games with mostly success but this time around we were there to face the first game this amazing company ever created, that being the dark and intricate Contraption.
My first escape room โ€“ a well themed room with lots of flowing puzzles.

Escapologic in Nottingham, UK is one of those must-play venues and has been nominated in the TERPECAโ€™s every year, so when I heard that they were opening a remote avatar room, I was rather curious to see which one it would be. I guessed it would be one of two, and one of my guesses, โ€œContraptionโ€, was correct.

While I did enjoy Contraption more when we played in person, the online-avatar adaptation was still great fun, and well worth considering for your next remote escape.
Read the full, detailed review at EscapeMattster.com โฌŠ

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