Category Archives: International

Mind Maze: Alchemist’s Room

Prague, Jul 2015

I have a soft spot for this one since it was the first time we completed a room to find that we’d beaten the record. On the other hand, that meant we rattled through in just over twenty minutes and so got less puzzle time than expected!

Lovely decor… (more)

Mission Escape Games: Escape the Nemesis

New York, Aug 2016

I was really impressed by this room. Although the setup was quite corporate, the staff were incredibly welcoming and engaging. The room itself is deliberately designed with puzzles in ascending order of difficulty, so you felt you’d got some stuff do… (more)

59:59 Room Escape: Escape from the Chamber of Dreams

New York, Aug 2016

I liked the theme in this room and although it’s more challenging than Hound of the Baskervilles, I found it more enjoyable. It still has a distinctly budget feel however and overall I’d put both of these rooms lower down the list(more)

59:59 Room Escape: Escape from the Hound of the Baskervilles

New York, Aug 2016

Although this was quite a welcoming room, it was a very basic setup, with parallel padlocks, and a lack of subtlety in the clues(more)

Exite: 4 Elements

Helsinki, Jun 2016

The theming in this room is not as strong as in Exite’s others, and it has a somewhat linear sequence of puzzles. It uses a progression through the elements structure, which both helps give a sense of clear progress and also fits with the abstract bu… (more)

Exite: The Curse

Helsinki, Jun 2016

We were one of the first groups to play this room, and at the time no-one had beaten it – we didn’t either, though we missed it only by a matter of seconds. It was difficult mainly because of the sheer quantity of puzzles to get through, which arguab… (more)

Exite: Airplane

Helsinki, Jun 2016

Gorgeous theming made this room an absolute pleasure to play. We completed it very quickly, and maybe it’s on the easy side – though partly that’s just because the puzzle sequence is put together such that the game has an intuitive flow from one poin… (more)

Escape Games NYC: Outer Space

New York, Jun 2015

This room kept us appraised of our progress using some nice-looking screens built into a plausible spaceship console. By-and-large the room had good production values and a sci-fi atmosphere that supported the game. There was a brief backstory includ… (more)

Claustrophilia: Voodoo Tales

Budapest, Aug 2014

Like the other Claustrophilia room, this is a very puzzle-centric room with a couple of refreshingly physical tasks as well as the usual assortment of search and solve puzzles. It’s more heavily themed, and pleasantly creepy.

However, the Claustroph… (more)

Claustrophilia: The Wicklewood Heritage

Budapest, Aug 2014

Wicklewood doesn’t have much in the way in theme or story, it’s more just a room full of puzzles – but they’re excellent puzzles. There are a couple that are quite unusual and pleasing, and more physical than normal. Personally I’m all in favour of r… (more)