by Escape Hunt Basingstoke (website)
14B Festival Place, RG21 7BA
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Blackbeard is dead, his loot lies unguarded. Sink or swim? It’s up to you.
Step onto a pirate galleon in the middle of a battle for control of the High Seas. Your captain, the terrifying Blackbeard, has just been killed and his ship is shot to pieces and sinking fast.
With no chance of victory, you and your scurvy shipmates decide to jump ship – after helping yourself to the contents of Blackbeard’s legendary treasure chest.
You’ve broken into his cabin to grab all you can, but now the door has jammed shut and you’ve just 60 minutes to escape; any longer and you’ll drown – if the sharks don’t get you first.Overall rating
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Did this one with some colleagues even though I had done the Reading version previously. Rooms were much too small for more than 2, possibly 3, people so several people missed out on puzzles.
GM was enthusiastic and professional, but room lacked any difficult puzzles.
Positives first: The room looked brilliant and the theming was great. Our games master was responsive and helpful. Some of the puzzles were interesting and innovative and very satisfying to solve.
BUT several elements were broken, and the structure of the game was quite illogical. Quite a few things in the room we never figured out what they were for or how to use them and we completed the room without them. It’s not clear if they were red herrings or just broken so not in use. But it’s frustrating to have spent ten minutes trying to work out how (for example) to move two balls through a maze on the wall only to ultimately complete the room without ever doing it. There were a few things like this. Also there was one puzzle which required us to use our sense of smell but only 1 of the 5 smelly things actually smelled of anything so it was impossible. We got there in the end but only by random chance.
On the whole a mediocre experience and not very satisfying because the room just didn’t seem to follow a logical route to completion.
Some tough puzzles. The look of the room probably is better than the puzzles themselves
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The game themes that Escape Hunt have been rolling out sound a little like costume ideas for a children's party: cowboys, vikings, Doctor Who, pirates. Since this is an industry that deals in escapism, that's all to the good, and we eagerly signed up for their Blackbeard game.
Your job is to sneak into the cabin of the recently deceased Captain Blackbeard and swipe his loot before the ship sinks; our gamemaster played the role of our confederate on the outside with gusto. Pirate themes always s...
Our least favourite game that we have played at Escape Hunt. The puzzles could have been really good but their execution was somewhat lacking. An enjoyable game overall however
See also
- Escape Hunt Birmingham: Blackbeard's Treasure (Birmingham)
- Escape Hunt Oxford: Blackbeard's Treasure (Oxford)
- Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Blackbeard's Treasure (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Hunt Leeds: Blackbeard's Treasure (Leeds)
- Escape Hunt Bristol: Blackbeard's Treasure (Bristol)
- Escape Hunt Manchester: Blackbeard's Treasure (Manchester)
- Escape Hunt Reading: Blackbeard's Treasure (Reading)
- Escape Hunt Liverpool: Blackbeard's Treasure (Liverpool)
- Escape Hunt Play At Home: Blackbeard's Treasure (remote livestream) (not available)
- Escape Hunt Lakeside: Blackbeard's Treasure (West Thurrock)
- Escape Hunt Kingston: Blackbeard's Treasure (Kingston upon Thames)
- Escape Hunt Watford: Blackbeard's Treasure (Watford)
- Escape Hunt Milton Keynes: Blackbeard's Treasure (Milton Keynes)
- Escape Hunt Exeter: Blackbeard's Treasure (Exeter)
- Escape Hunt Norwich: Blackbeard's Treasure (Norwich)
- Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Blackbeard's Treasure (Edinburgh)
- Escape Hunt Bournemouth: Blackbeard's Treasure (Bournemouth)
- Escape Hunt London Oxford Street: Blackbeard's Treasure (Central London)
- Escape Hunt Woking: Blackbeard's Treasure (Woking)