Grand Escape: Paranormal Room 1409

By | March 20, 2019
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by Grand Escape (website)

96 Broad Street, B15 1AU

Birmingham

2-6 players

60 minutes

One of the hardest escape rooms in Birmingham, Room 1409 will challenge even the most experienced team.
A spontaneous weekend in New-York becomes the most challenging of your life.
It all started when you were booking into the hotel, and only one room was available: Room 1409. On a previous trip, you had heard an old wives tale about that exact room… something about a group of unsuspecting holiday-makers being locked inside and vanishing, but that couldn’t be true, could it? Anyway, you haven’t got any other options, and at this point, all you care about is getting some shut-eye. You’re all shown to your room and everything is fine, but as you hear the key turn to lock the door reality and illusion begin to blur. You need to get out fast, but can you?
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Rated 3.5 out of 5

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Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 26/10/2019 Team size: 3 Time taken: 55.00 Outcome: Successful escape!

A very clever room in its design. Some puzzles in this room I’ve never seen before which it exciting from start to finish. 

You may think this is a horror room by the name of it, however it’s more creepy than scary. 2 jump scares ensued for me but I laughed straight after, so these were executed very well. 

Some clues felt a little ambiguous and there were plenty of red herrings. My hat being said, this has to be one of my favourite rooms I’ve played  due to the way the puzzles are executed 

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