Exciting Escapes Basingstoke: Dark Deeds and Groceries

By | March 20, 2019

by Exciting Escapes Basingstoke (website)

2nd Floor, 21-23 Wote Street, RG21 7NE

Basingstoke

3-6 players

60 minutes

The year is 1928 and as the roaring twenties draw to a close criminality is rife in Basingstoke. Illicit gambling and 3 dead agents lead to a perfectly innocent looking Grocers store. What secrets can it possibly be hiding? (Note – this is our more difficult room)
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🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: August 2023
Alwaysablast rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 19 Nov 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 49 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Good fun room. There was one puzzle in the room which we were able to solve out of order, which caused a bit of confusion later on, but otherwise very clever.

JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 27 Aug 2023 Team size: 00:55:34 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingquite difficult

They say this is their most difficult room, I would say its not (but only by a slim margin) but there is a lot to do and some tricky searching to complete.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 31 Jul 2022 Team size: 6 Time taken: 46:51 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 5 Mar 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 47m Outcome: Successful escape!
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TeamHawley experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 15 Apr 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!
Sam Carr experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 4 Apr 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49.01 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Emma Macedo experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 25th October 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
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MightyMidds experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
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With three successful games under their belt at their Southampton branch, Exciting Escapes have expanded to a second branch in Basingstoke, with one copy of their original game plus two new ones. Dark Deeds is the first of those new games and has a 1920s theme, set in a grocery store that might be a front for illicit gambling and stolen goods.

An old-fashioned British grocery store is perhaps not the most glamorous setting for a game, gambling or no gambling. But the decor is solid and the them...

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