3 Old Row Court, Rose Street, RG40 1XZ
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
A cryptic letter was recently received but there's been no ransom. It doesn't make any sense! The police have been trying to crack the code and solve the mysterious disappearance but have been unsuccessful. Can you help?!! Our surveillance team has identified a prime suspect and a 60-minute window where he leaves his office, this is your chance to enter and search for clues to Charlottes disappearance. Time is of the essence so work quickly to find evidence against the Prime Suspect, discover Charlottes location and escape the office before he returns!
When you book your team are given a password to the mystery area on the site. There you will find a starter clue and a game briefing. This gives you a taster of what to expect when you arrive on the day.
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Played this at a pop-up in Windsor before it came to Wokingham.
We start in the office of the Prime Suspect, searching for evidence of where a kidnapped woman is locked up. The room itself was reasonable, we just found that some of the puzzles were illogical (one in particular needed more than one clue for us to solve and it was still "huh?" afterwards. I just can't see how you can get the answer without a lot of nudging and amazing eyesight). One of the hiding places had a lock that fell open when being poked with the wrong key. Another couple of clues required us to search through a big pile of items (I am trying not to give spoilers) which would normally rule them out as just decoration. In many cases we had codes and had to guess which lock they were supposed to open.
For one of the clues, the GM admitted that it takes teams a long time to solve because it's quite counter intuitive (one of our team got it but it took a while). I can imagine a lot of people get very frustrated with it.
As with the other Escape 360 room, we visited during the July heatwave and the room was airless and boiling. I know the UK can't be fully equipped with air conditioning, we don't expect that, but a couple of cheap fans would have made a huge difference. The GM apologised after saying they used to have fans but they had disappeared (she had one on her desk, though).