Escape Blackpool: Contagion

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300 Lytham Road, FY1 6EY

2-6 players

60 minutes

closed

You and your team of fellow scientists have been working tirelessly to create a vaccine for the fatal CYE disease. However your work has taken a turn for the worse and you have all managed to contract the virus.

Either sit around and let it take you or redouble your efforts and create a vaccine.

This is not your only problem. After creating the vaccine you must find a way to beat the lock down on the laboratory. The timer is set to 60 minutes, after which the room and all traces of your work, will be incinerated. Create the vaccine and escape the room if the rest of humanity is to benefit from your work!

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Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:

Played: 07/01/16

Scotus0 expert rated this:

Played: 31/10/2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: ~59:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Lab Life

I’m sad to hear that Escape Blackpool is no longer open, as this was an impressive room.

Story

You and your fellow scientists have contracted a virus that’s killing the world. Create a vaccine and escape the locked-down laboratory before it’s incinerated! A scenario that I now know is very, very common in the world of escape rooms, but this was my first time saving the world from a deadly disease.

Puzzles

This was a very tricky room! There were several clever features and quirky uses of apparatus that you’d expect/hope to see in a lab-themed escape.

Mise-en-scène

Very white, very polished, very lab-like! The props provided appropriate touches: science utensils, reading material and gear. I love any room where outfits are given, and so the lab coats were appreciated.

Final Comments

We only received one hint from our Game Operator, and this was on how/where to use a particular tool. She clearly knew exactly what time(s) teams need a hint. It was a good room for a team of both beginners and more experienced players.

reviewed in Lincoln

liam and rosie experienced rated this:

Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!

😨creepy

reviewed in Ipswich

Dawne20 rated this:

Played: 10 Jun 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56.22 Outcome: Successful escape!

poor hostingoverpriced

We have played a lot of escape rooms and we definitely prefer the independent escape rooms, the chain rooms just don't cut it. We did not get this room and did not enjoy it.

reviewed in Peterborough

A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Lincoln

Adrienne Ward rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

illogicalquite difficult

Last clue was just ridiculously obscure.

reviewed in Peterborough

Kerrie Wykes rated this:

Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Lincoln

Anonymous expert rated this:

plainunoriginalsmall

This room is inside an active school. You walk through the school with kids in classrooms to get to the escape room. Very odd indeed. This room also had an internal window into the school corridor which the students sat on and we spent the whole game listening to petty childish squabbles and arguments about fornite. Not an ideal location for an escape room when you want to be immersed in the story. The room itself is tiny with basic puzzles. You can see there has been an attempt to make this game stand out but they've basically just crowbar'd in some irrelevant tech.

reviewed in Sheffield

TeamDenton experienced rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

family friendly

This was a fun room, our main complaint was that it felt like we were given a bit too much information at the start. There weren’t loads of tactile interactive elements so this room was less about searching and props than it was about logic and puzzling.

reviewed in Leamington Spa

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A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.

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Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

reviewed in Ipswich