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Enigma Quests: School of Witchcraft & Wizardry

London, Jul 2016

Fans of a certain best-selling series of children’s books will particularly like this room, but it’s a lot of fun whether you’ve read them or not. The room gives you a grade according to how much of the room you’ve completed, a friendlier approach th… (more)

Omescape: Penitentiary

London, Jul 2016

As a rule I enjoy rooms for large teams less. Even with experienced players, it’s difficult to co-ordinate effectively, and you end up spending too much time re-checking things that others have already looked at, or with some players less involved.

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Cluequest: Revenge of the Sheep

London, Jul 2016

Cluequest are clearly a professional outfit and whilst the initial welcome might be a bit rushed, the staff clearly try to take care of you once you get going. Revenge of the sheep is the third of their rooms. The most technically advanced room, they… (more)

Escape Room: Abandoned Factory

Tallinn, Jun 2016

The success rate for the Factory was apparently even lower than for the Lab (a.k.a. ‘hardest room in Estonia’ Lab – at time of playing, there had been only three successful teams, ever (!).

It’s very linear and unusually difficult, consisting of a s… (more)

Escape Room: Prison Break

Tallinn, Jun 2016

This is much more of a ‘normal’ room than the two others we did with this company, both in terms of difficulty level and style.

It’s a relatively small escape room, and both our teams finished it quickly, so experienced teams may find it on the easy… (more)

Escape Rooms: Secret Lab

Tallinn, Jun 2016

This room appears to no longer be open, so this review is purely for comparison.

It was billed as the ‘hardest room in Estonia’, and it definitely ranks as one of the hardest rooms I’ve tried. Unfortunately, that was partly because of gratuitous use… (more)

Exit Room: Crazy Doctor

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Like the Dracula room from the same company, this room managed to annoy me; primarily in this case due to one particular puzzle which seemed deliberately designed to waste time, so that even once we’d realised what we were supposed to do we had to st… (more)

Exit Room: KGB

Tallinn, Jun 2016

The enthusiastic staff acting for the lead-in to this one was great, and definitely bumps it up a notch; it was also free of the frustrations I encountered in the other rooms from this company. Definitely my favourite of the three.(more)

Exit Room: Dracula

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Dracula was both unusually search-heavy and also relied on semi-darkness, which isn’t a fantastic combination. To make it worse, one of the clues was hidden in a location that we assumed was intended to be off-limits.

It’s easy to blame a room when … (more)

Claustrophobia: Stormy Ocean

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Short of having the room rock from side to side or spraying you with cold salt water, they’d be hard put to improve the decor here.

The room was a succession of good on-theme puzzles, with barely a padlock to be seen. It’s perhaps on the easy side, … (more)