Category Archives: Norwich

Cryptic Escape: Magic School

Norwich, Jul 2023

Cryptic’s Rose Lane branch is on the third floor of a car park, which is a curious location and one that seems like it shouldn’t exist; finding an escape room venue instead of more cars seemed a little like finding a hidden platform at Kings Cross.

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History Mystery: Secrets of the Tunnels

Norwich, Dec 2019

Most of the reviews I’ve written of games by History Mystery could start in a similar way, by saying: “this is the first game I’ve played inside…”. With Secrets of the Tunnels, that sentence ends with “…an underground medieval street”. This is a … (more)

Cryptic Escapes: The Treasure of Green Beard

Norwich, Aug 2018

Since this review is inevitably going to degenerate into a rant about ‘good’ difficulty versus ‘bad’ difficulty in escape rooms, let’s start on a more positive note. The Treasure of Green Beard is nicely presented, a traditionally structured escape r… (more)

History Mystery: Body of Evidence

Norwich, Aug 2018

Where History Mystery’s first game is situated upstairs at the Norwich Guildhall, their second is in the basement of the same building, in what used to be gaol cells right up to the 1980s. The booking confirmation warns players that the cell graffiti… (more)

History Mystery: The Merchants’ Vaults

Norwich, Aug 2018

Having located their previous games in Norwich’s Guildhall and in a historic church, History Mystery’s latest is set the medieval undercroft below Brideswell Museum. This is a ghostly grey space of elegant ancient arches and crumbling walls, simultan… (more)

History Mystery: The Queenmaker

Norfolk, Dec 2017

With their first two games set in Norwich Guildhall, History Mystery had already set a high bar for their locations, but their third game takes that to a new level by being set in an actual church. The church in question is part of the Blickling esta… (more)

History Mystery: Archived Alive!

Norwich, Dec 2017

In Archived Alive! your mission is to rescue the local historian, who has managed to lock himself in the vaults. As he explains to you in the intro video, the poor fellow has been there three days without food or water, and since he’s also worried ab… (more)