History Mystery: The Queenmaker

By | March 20, 2019

by History Mystery Blickling (website)

Blickling

2-10 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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Life in Tudor England is a constant struggle, even for Norfolk’s wealthy Boleyn family. The closer you are to the King, the more secure your lands, and your lives, will be. There is no place at Court closer than the King’s consort – his Queen.
In the church where the real-life Anne Boleyn worshipped as a girl, you must use all your guile and cunning to overcome the many obstacles in your path and help get your daughter Anne to the altar, as the bride of King Henry the Eighth!
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stairs expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 9 Jan 2022 Team size: 8 Time taken: 00:45:44
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Situated in an (unheated!) medieval church in rural Norfolk, the Queenmaker must be one of the most unusual premises for an escape room, both in terms of its venue and its narrative. The gameplay starts off relatively slowly, and feels a little bit like a "pop-up" room - with fairly plain physical props scattered around the church, and flow controlled by the GM as you progress through chapters of the story. However, things get more intense towards the end, and the sheer novelty of the location makes up for some shortcomings in what are otherwise fairly basic puzzles.

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With their first two games set in Norwich Guildhall, History Mystery had already set a high bar for their locations, but their third game takes that to a new level by being set in an actual church. The church in question is part of the Blickling estate, and the game is premised on its historic connections to the Boleyn family and the events leading up to the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Your task is to advance the marriage between Anne and the monarch and thereby secure the poli...

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