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Team size: 2Time taken: 49:40Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingbroken tech
Such a great room and genuinely enjoyed playing it so much. However there were multiple things broken when we played that really hindered the experience
Me and my teammate spent a lot of time on a puzzle (about 10 minutes) only to ask after the game and then realise it was broken, a couple other things went wrong in the room but that was the main let down.
Although we really enjoyed playing this room i do think that the reset errors and technical faults made us a little bit disappointed
The GM’s were lovely and we escaped with 20 seconds left however because of the issue in the room they took ten minutes off of our time which is about the time we spent looking at a broken puzzle.
Knockout has always been great and this room was too (perhaps my favourite of theirs tied alongside 9-5 assassin)! I just hope those errors don’t happen to other teams because it really takes away from the experience
This was a very good room with a unique take on the theme! We enjoyed all aspects of this room and really appreciated the attention to detail too! Would recommend!
So much fun! The set design is great even down to the smell of the room! Loads of puzzles of a variety of different types that kept our full team busy at all times. Pure fun and easily my favourite at this venue.
Played: 2 Mar 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 52Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersivegreat hosting
Not only is the game theming and play absolutely superb and original. The staff and hosting at Knockout is simply amazing. Their games are an absolute ‘must do’ for anyone visiting Reading. We’ve done all their games and would highly recommend all of them. Brilliant.
Played: 14 Feb 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 59:55Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersivegreat hostingquite difficult
We have played all rooms to date at Knockout. Always friendly staff, great themeing and fun games. We were warned there was lots to do in this game (Dirty Money) and are games host, Charlie, certainly wasn't wrong! We escaped successfully - just in the nick of time - with 5 seconds to spare!! The storyline was a clever one with loose links to the local area, which was a nice touch and I love games with puzzles I've never seen before. Baring in mind I've ranked up around 65 games now, unique puzzles are harder to come by but always pleasantly received. We played as a team of 2 and, like I mentioned, there was LOTS to do in the 60 minutes so probably wouldn't recommend for first-timers unless you had a bigger team. Hopefully there will be more new games at Knockout in the future so we can continue returning, as I've never been disappointed with any of this company's games.
Played: 2 Jan 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 54:00Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingbroken techquite easy
Host was great (I've forgotten her name, sorry!) and made us feel very welcome throughout. Asked us how we wanted to receive hints, which I thought was great - some venues give hints far too quickly, but not here. We decided we would ask when we thought we needed a clue, but that our host would put a question mark up on screen when she thought we were going totally off track so that we had the option to ask for a clue in this case too - great idea!The puzzles themselves were pretty solid. Loads of locks, mostly combination. Lots of puzzles too. Quite a bit of needing to search around for things. We were a team of 2 and I think the puzzles were mostly pretty easy, there were just a lot of them to get through.The theming of the room was unique and the set was pretty much perfect for the theme they've chosen. Well built.Only negatives were that two of the puzzles were broken. Give that this is a new room, I was a bit surprised. However, once again, our host shined through and activated the end result of these puzzles once we'd gotten to the point that it was clear we had completed as much of them as we could.Overall a good experience. Would've given it 4/5 if it weren't for the broken puzzles. Our host did tell us that they had already ordered the parts to fix them, so hopefully will be fixed for future participants.This was our first Knockout room and we'll definitely go back to do their others.
Played: 2 Dec 2023Team size: 4Time taken: 44:20Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnygreat hosting
This is just a joyous room to play. The theming is brilliant (without giving away too much), the game is fully automated - no one pushing buttons when you look like you've solved a puzzle. It's witty,, it's logical, it's well run and the staff are really lovely.
We had a riot playing this, it's such fun.
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I’ve visited plenty of laundrettes in my life, but I think this might be the first time I’ve ever actually had fun trying to escape from one. Dirty Money is another excellent addition to the already fantastic games available to play at Knockout, and in Reading in general, especially for fans of a more traditional escape experience.
