by Lucardo Manchester (website)
Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD
2-6 players
60 minutes
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based on ratings from 40 users
combined with 7 pro reviews
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I feel that this room has either changed or been over reviewed in the past as I picked this room due to the good reviews and it certainly didn't live up to it. We have done over 150 rooms now but this had puzzles that just didn't really make sense and some that fell flat. I did get really frustrated with one puzzle which they had to guide us through in the end and could have been us having a bad day but we wasted so much time on it. Most of the room looked fine but the main puzzle towards the end the props really let it down. I unfortunately cant recommend this for enthusiasts. A good team that didn't have the same problem as us would also go through this quite fast as there didn't seem to be as many puzzles as most rooms.
Couple of nice puzzles. Flowed nicely too.
A nicely themed room with a good variety of puzzles, including a few I hadnβt seen before.
I did enjoy this game and although we didn't escape, we had a fun day.
Our host on this day was truly awful and clearly didn't care or watch the game. We received the same clue 15 times on the final puzzle... Recently the staff seemed to have slipped.
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Lucardo has built a reputation in the UK for quality games and had long been on my wish list of places I wanted to visit. They entered the online market in mid-2020 with Gemrunner (which I rated highly for its design and the overall experience). Iβve not had the chance to play Safe House as yet so when the opportunity came up to play the University of Magic I immediately signed on. Along with Prisons, pirates and sci-fi, Magic is one of my go-to themes.
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- Lucardo Manchester: University of Magic: The Entrance Exam (remote livestream) (not available)