Exit The Room Manchester: Madness

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!