Puzzlescape

Good room. One particularly challenging puzzle that slowed us down considerably, but all round a good room.

Excellent for beginners, a couple of trip ups for us which slowed us down. But great fun and as always as Puzzlescapes fantastic hosting. 

Maybe a trigger warning for bug phobics would be good here, but as mild phobics ourselves it wasn’t too tricky to deal with that section.

There was an item/construct that we hadn’t seen before which was nice, but it was a variation on a theme.

Nudges were timely and gentle enough just to put you back on track which highlighted the excellent and attentive hosting.

We wouldn’t automatically recommend this for a beginner level room for 2, but maybe if there were a mix of experience then that would be fine.

The large number and wide puzzle range go from observational to skill in both low and high tech which would allow a wider range of experienced players to join in.

Definitely a positive, value for money experience, but challenging!

Pretty good room, enjoyed it apart from one dexterity puzzle towards the end of the game which was a struggle, but we were able to bypass it! Gm at puzzlescape is always nice and friendly!

Interesting take on an escape room with pretty much entirely dexterity/tactile puzzles. Some puzzles could have felt unfair or frustrating - they were unnecessarily time consuming - but it was a great escape room for some of the less puzzle-minded folks I brought along!

The individual puzzles were fine - nothing exceptional, but a fair variety and seemed solid enough. Unfortunately, the overall flow of the game was a mess. We ended up accidentally jumping over a puzzle early on and, from that moment onwards, everything kind of fell apart... On two separate occasions, we ended up solving electronic puzzles that made something happen in a room that we didn't yet have access to. We spent about 20 minutes following a series of puzzles that resulted in nothing more than an item that would have been the "intended" way to solve a puzzle that we had already solved via another method ages ago. And, due to an unfortunate GM oversight, when we entered the final area, the "big reveal" was, well, already in plain sight. They then tried to correct this error by remotely "unrevealing" the prize item again in front of us, and this made us even more confused as to what was going on.

We escaped, but our overall feeling at the end was one of confusion rather than success, and unfortunately can't really recommend this game based on our experience.

I really enjoyed this room! It was a physical-puzzles heavy game, with a bit of maths and some decent teamwork/communication. It was well put together in terms of quality and finish, and everything flowed nicely.

"Sleight of Hand" is a fitting name for the room. I enjoyed it and felt it was well produced, and although it wasn't massively original, everything it did, it did well and had a good variety of puzzles.

There is one very difficult dexterity puzzle towards the end, which after 5 mins of failing to succeed, we were allowed to bypass with a verbal riddle. I'm not keen on this type of puzzle but as there was a bypass I don't really mind.

The host was friendly and welcoming and a good GM.

This was our first escape room so it's hard to judge fairly in retrospect, but we can say a few things for certain: We had a friendly and welcoming GM. It was a well-dressed set with good production values/set dressing; everything felt solid and nothing was incomplete. There was a storyline that tied things together nicely. The puzzles had a good variety and flowed well - however we found a huge difficulty spike in one puzzle in particular. This left us rushing the quite spectacular later parts of room which was a shame, and felt out of step with the other tasks we had - but perhaps we were just too inexperienced.

An spider/bug warning is needed for anybody with severe arachnophobia.

We've done a lot of rooms and this one is fairly unusual in that it's a searching/hidden objects -heavy room. We enjoyed it and got out in good time - there were plenty of "aha" moments as we kept unwrapping layers of item of putting pieces together.

The GM was lovely and gave just the right level of nudging when we got stuck without giving the answer away, which is a skill we appreciate.

Nice little room with range of types of puzzle. Great hosting. Diamond room a bit more original but good value for money and an hour nonetheless.

Lovely hosting, slightly cheaper build, but creative and achievable with a couple of really nice tools and original ideas. Our first room ever but we’d still enjoy it now having done a lot more rooms since! Good value for money.

Easy puzzles mixed with ridiculously hard dexterity “puzzles”.  The whole room could have been combined in a portable box and would’ve been better.  And the owner took a lot of pride in us not getting out.  Red flags.