Escape Hunt Play At Home: An Enola Holmes Adventure

By | September 24, 2020
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by Escape Hunt Play At Home (website)

1-6 players

🖨print-and-play
not available
free
The game is afoot! Players have the opportunity to join Enola Holmes' new detective agency - if they can prove their skill as detectives of course. Individuals displaying intelligence, bravery, and a degree of cunning are highly desired for the post.
Armed with only a map of London, a newspaper, and your wits, chase Enola investigating iconic locations including Covent Garden, Bond Street and 221b Baker Street.
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Anonymous rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5

Extremely simple puzzles but presented with amazing production value, nicely extending the Enola Holmes film world.

samip rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 01/10/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45 mins Outcome: Successful escape!

We played this game shortly after watching the film and felt like it perfectly continued 'the adventure', as a puzzle based sequel. Recommended for teens/young adults and beginners 🙂

stairs expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 29/9/2020 Team size: 1 Time taken: 00:15 Outcome: Successful escape!

This is a promotional mini-game to accompany the Enola Holmes film recently released on Netflix. However, whereas the film was an enjoyable romp that successfully brought fresh ideas to the traditional "Holmes-ian" Victorian detective genre, this game sadly fails to bring the same innovation to its puzzles.

It comes as 16 sides of well-presented, full-colour A4 PDF, but the puzzles are simplistic (mirror-writing, dot-to-dot pictures, basic maths riddles) and the thematic tie-ins are predictable (a map of London, an old newspaper, a set of books...) - the result feels more like a children's activity book than an escape room. But, it's free, so it's good to pass the time during a lunch break, or maybe occupy the kids for a while on a rainy day, but doesn't particularly inspire me to try Escape Hunt's other play-at-home games.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 26 Sep 2020 Team size: 3 Time taken: 0:54 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Theming is probably the biggest strength of this game. The imagery was beautiful and the story was woven into it well but the puzzles were weak. Worth playing, but print in black and white to save some money

If you watched the film, you'll recognize the usage of the newspaper in the puzzles. It was a great way to connect the puzzle pieces and eventually evolve into a meta puzzle. We really enjoyed the "detective vibe" that it gave off since there were definitely moments of searching, investigating and visualizing throughout the journey. The puzzles were not difficult and you could definitely play this with your kids. Perhaps they might even see some clues that you might have missed!  

A real positive to this game is that it is absolutely FREE! Yep, didn’t cost a penny, except the cost of ink. Although it is a rather colourful, and should I say beautifully designed piece of work, there isn’t particularly a need to print if all off in colour.  So don’t worry about your pocket when downloading this!
Recommend in Quarantine
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A load of fun!

An Enola Holmes Adventure was a load of fun. The game perfectly encapsulated that spirit of light-hearted adventure that made the film so enjoyable.

I’d recommend this game to anyone who likes the film and wants to have a crack at solving their own mystery. I’d say its challenge level is better suited to families, but it makes for an excellent way to round out movie night for anyone.

When all is said and done, this is certainly up there with my favourite print at home games. As ever, getting a real wow factor proves difficult, however the combination of the escape puzzles and an accompanying Netflix movie certainly goes a long way to fill that void. A great collection of beautifully designed puzzles, suitable for all, which hit a home run in my household. Get out your magnifying glass and check this one our for sure!   

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