Escape Peterborough: 221B Baker Street

23 Church Walk, PE1 1SB

2-5 players

60 minutes

Primarily focusing on code-breaking, symbolism and association problems The Sherlock Escape Room will offer an interesting challenge for new and returning players alike.

Having been enlisted by Moriarty, your task is to break into 221B Baker Street, defeat Sherlock's failsafes and retrieve Sherlock's prized possessions.

Hurry though, Sherlock and Dr Watson are hot on your tail!

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Terraverte rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

plainunoriginaltedious

Having just played Escape the Seven Seas and loved it we played this game as we had time to spare…and wished we hadn’t bothered. The theming is okay, like any other Sherlock/detective type room, but the puzzles are all a bit mundane, and there’s one in the second room that was both tedious and irritating. Not one we’d recommend.

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A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Played: 5 May 2018 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

Oscar rated this:

immersiveillogicalunoriginal

I love the Sherlock Holmes theme, and there were a lot of fun props and references here. It isn't very imaginative or inspiring though, you are really just going through about 20 numerical padlocks. The 2 or 3 puzzles which didn't use padlocks were clunky and obtuse. It's also not clear why you're playing Moriarty in this room, surely everyone fantasizes about being Sherlock?

Anonymous rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

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Tim Cooper expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 42:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

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🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 19/09/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Good beginner room with a mix of puzzles and an optional one if you want the credit, couple of potentially immersion breaking puzzles right at the end but still some good ideas/reveals.

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Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Theming and Set: Lovely, until the weird timey-wimey wobble at the end. Searching: Not really enough to keep the teens occupied while solving one riddle at a time.

Many Sherlock-themed escape games need an excuse for why the great man himself isn't present - perhaps he's been kidnapped, or has died, or is simply too busy with more important cases. Escape's version takes a novel approach: here you are in fact the bad guys, sent by Moriarty to infiltrate Sherlock's apartment and steal a particular one of his possessions.

Although the Escape venues tend not to invest too heavily in the room decorations, 221B Baker Street looks more impressive than their norm...

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