Category Archives: International

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)

Get Away Zone: Red Alert

Tallinn, Jun 2016

It’s difficult to review this room because it included one very memorable moment which I’m avoiding talking about so as not to spoil it, and which is something of a ‘love it or hate it’ element.

Other than that, it was mostly a middle-tier room with… (more)

Puzzle Rooms: Time Machine

Prague, Jul 2015

We made a point of playing this room because the concept sounded fun – the team split in different time zones, co-operating to find a way to re-unite and escape. (The operators described it that way to us before we booked, so I’m not counting that as… (more)

Cryptex: Bomb

Prague, Jul 2015

There was a nice contraption for one of the puzzles… that unfortunately didn’t work properly for either of our teams. It was a reasonable room, definitely on the hard side so perhaps worth trying for teams looking for a challenge; but on the whole … (more)

Cryptex: Lost Treasure

Prague, Jul 2015

Like Cryptex’s other room, the decor is fairly simple. I remember this room as an example of how use of UV can be frustrating: there were a considerable number of scraps of paper and other objects, and when we unearthed a UV torch we then had to labo… (more)

Puzzle Rooms: Golem’s Hideaway

Prague, Jul 2015

The problem with doing six rooms in two days is that, when reviewing them sixteen months later, the details get hazy. But I remember this room as being decent without being spectacular.(more)

Mind Maze: Enigma

Prague, Jul 2015

Interestingly, I’ve never yet played a WW2-themed escape room that I didn’t enjoy. Maybe the era just lends itself to high quality props and nice theming.

The opening sequence of this room was particularly satisfying; while the similarly-themed Lond… (more)