by Cryptology Nottingham (website)
107 Upper Parliament Street
3-6 players
60 minutes
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based on ratings from 67 users
combined with 5 pro reviews
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there was plenty of puzzles , very original idea
I liked the idea of this room—where you only get a set amount of time in each area before you have to move on—although I've seen it better executed in other rooms (e.g., Time Run). On the one hand, it gets you to see everything in the room, but on the other hand, you're left frustrated that you didn't solve all the puzzles.
Disappointingly, the set was a major letdown - I've said it is "tired", but it isn't clear that it ever was a decent set, and I really had to stretch credibility at times with the settings for some of the areas. Perhaps the "dreamer" in question didn't have a particularly vivid imagination...
We did really well with most areas and solved almost all the puzzles. However, there was one area we didn't get on with, and we only solved half the puzzles. There were also a few instances of the tech not working.
That said, you don't have to solve all the puzzles to have a chance at "escaping" - solving the puzzles just makes it easier.
Decent room but it could have been so much better!
Hosting was great.
Accessibility: You have to go up one flight of steps to get to the room. There are no major issues inside the room, although there's one area where having a sense of balance is helpful.
A room with great high potential, low deliverance. Several unique challenges mixed in in several uninspiring rooms with puzzled that felt convoluted and sometimes pointless to the final outcome. A few of the challenges required subject specific knowledge however a majority were still enjoyable. #LeftMeDreamingForMore
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This isn’t a typical, search every corner for items type of room. This is solve as many puzzles as you can in the time and get rewarded for those that you do solve type of challenge. This means that even if you don’t do so well at the beginning, you still have a chance to progress to the end and “escape”!
Think of it as a Crystal Maze episode where you are all allowed to take on all the challenges in all four zones one after the other, where they open all the doors in each zone and the whole team just goes and works on all the puzzles simultaneously, obtains crystals (dreamkeys) for solving those puzzles, and then moves on to the next zone. The final zone (dream) is made easier the more puzzles you have solved, but you all get a chance to tackle it not matter how well you did.
It is worth spending about 12 minutes in each room, to maximize your chances, but you can move on if you do manage to get all 5 keys from that room earlier than that.
We collected 18 of the 20 keys and escaped in time, getting the second fastest time of any 3 person team to take on the Dreamscape!
Puzzle fans will love this one. It really is like a test of your puzzling skills as a team, and for everyone’s individual strengths. We had a Math whizz in our team who solved the number based puzzles in record time. Similarly I whizzed through the wordy ones, and together we did the logic and physical challenges.
Highly recommended for something a bit different, an immersive experience with a lot of laughs and clearly a room where the owners have thought outside the box and put a lot of time and effort into make something fantastical, varied and humorous that will have broad appeal. And they did just that!
The rooms were incredible – Dreamscape plays out like an escape room fan’s actual dream, with a huge volume of puzzles, all focussing on different strengths, and a great flow between each of the dreams! Each dream was so different from the previous and the types of puzzles in each room were SO cleverly tied into the feel of the dream you find yourself in. We spent most of the game working separately to try and tackle the volume of puzzles we were faced with – but we did come together a few times for some particularly tricky bits! We tried to separate according to our strengths (but in hindsight it was probably whoever got to the puzzle first! ).
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