by Escape Reading (website)
Queens Walk Unit5, RG17QF
3-6 players
60 minutes
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based on ratings from 30 users
combined with 2 pro reviews
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Played Blown Away with a new group of friends and had a great time. Fantastic hosting from our friendly and enthusiastic games master, and a successful escape with just over 10 mins left on the clock. We worked our way through the variety of physical puzzles (no padlocks may I add), activated the 'extended version' of the game and deactivated the bomb whilst enjoying our time inside.
Great game with an original design and concept! A lot to do for a team of 2 in the full version but our highlight of the day at escape Reading!
We had a great time in this escape room! Thanks also to our host Essie who was lovely!
A very cool room, some really clever puzzles, lots of physical tasks, and not a single padlock to be found! Choice of a hard or easy version too (we played easy but were shown hard after hence the difficult rating!).
Only criticism is the last puzzle; the whole group thought it could do with a bit of a revamp as we easily spent 10 minutes on it.
Great room, good GM (Josh), we had a dance party partway through, which was fun.
Our ratings:
Theming: 8.5/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 9.5/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9/10
Overall: 88%
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While there are a handful of hard-core enthusiasts who might attempt to play solo, for most players solving as a team is one of the joys of escape rooms. A disproportionate number of my most memorable moments in games have involved tasks that required players to work together in some clever way. And while Blown Away is an impressive game in many ways, what I really loved about it was that it's built around interesting, smart puzzles that can only be solved by a team working together.
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