Exit The Room Manchester: Madness

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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A world-famous professor has started to show signs of insanity. He has secretly started a new series of psychiatric tests as part of a top secret new project. As the months pass and none of his test volunteers has returned the world grows increasingly suspicious. Your mission is to enter his creepy laboratory and discover what he is working on. The lab could be full of death traps and you have a mere 60 minutes to discover his secret plan, prevent him from carrying it out and ultimately to save mankind!

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TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Wasn't a bad room - compared to the other games here...

thehermit experienced rated this:

Played: 11/08/2019 Team size: 3 Time taken: 48 Outcome: Successful escape!

value for moneygreat hosting

Great room for new escapees - Not the best theming, but the game play was fun.

grogu42 experienced rated this:

Played: 11 Aug 2018 Team size: 3 Time taken: 48.43

great hosting

Not a bad little room, the theme was fairly generic and the theming was pretty standard but not bad. Some good puzzles in there, but a few we have seen many times which made it a little easy for us.

AdamEscapes rated this:

Played: 13 Nov 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 35

We played this back in the day during a bit of an escape tour of Manchester. Definitely at the bottom of the list in terms of quality but right up at the top in terms of price, it was cheap. Not necessarily a bad room, just a little easy and simplistic at times. Could be improved in certain areas!

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Scotus0 expert rated this:

Played: 25/02/2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: ~50:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

An Economical Escape

At less than £9.00 per person, I couldn't resist giving Exit the Room a try.

Story

Enter an insane professor's lab in order to find out and put a stop to his secret plan.

Puzzles

Bog-standard, really, but we realised part-way through that we had skipped several of them. Due to an error when resetting the room, I was able to open a lock prematurely. Basically, a word lock was sitting in a cabinet, the correct sequence lined up on it, and so I entered this into the word lock that was preventing the door from opening. This didn't occur to us as strange until we were trying to unlock things that we should have already opened by that stage. Our Games Master was apologetic.

Mise-en-scène

Unconvincing. It's a bunch-of-props-thrown-in-a-room situation. At the time, the venue was only a few months old, but nothing at all made me feel immersed. I feel this sort of stuff should be put in place before opening.

Final Comments

You get what you pay for, I guess!