Category Archives: Prague

Mind Maze: Galactic Pioneers

Prague, Aug 2023

Every spaceship develops potentially catastrophic problems at some point in its journey, and every spaceship can be fixed by sufficient fiddling with electronic panels and screens. That, at least, is what I’ve learned from escape rooms. In Galactic P… (more)

Mind Maze: An Incredible Story of Nautilus

Prague, Aug 2023

These days Mind Maze has three separate locations; conveniently for visiting enthusiasts, the two TERPECA-nominated rooms are both at the same address. We played both, starting with Nautilus.

You’d guess from the name that Nautilus is a steampunk-st… (more)

The Padlock: Safe – The Secret of Jack Daniel

Prague, Aug 2023

This game unquestionably should be getting a higher rating than I’m giving it. Safe, or The Secret of Jack Daniel, is an impressive game even by Prague’s high standards, and I can easily understand why many visiting enthusiasts consider it the best i… (more)

LostExit: Kino Úsvit

Prague, Aug 2023

The escape room industry is always advancing and becoming more sophisticated, so there’s little place for nostalgia, no golden age to look back to, when the cutting edge just keeps improving. Even so, Úsvit Cinema struck me as showcasing several virt… (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)

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)