Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Derby

Unfortunately, this room has a lot of unmet potential. It starts off well with the team members briefly separated by a puzzle, and then you have to move into a secondary room before ending in a tertiary room. However, from the second room onwards we found it disappointing. 

The puzzles within the secondary room are not particularly hi-tech, and there are lots of buttons and switches that seem as though they should do something (e.g. making a sound and lighting up) but aren't actually necessary for the game. There were also a several links missing between puzzles and solutions which meant that finding solutions was often a process of elimination and so unsatisfying. 

In large part, our disappointment was due to the poor hosting. There were multiple occasions where we needed to shout the answer and the host didn't hear us, even though we'd provided the correct answer. This cost us time but, more importantly, was incredibly frustrating as we couldn't tell where we'd made a mistake when, as it turned out, we hadn't.