The Panic Room Gravesend: Wizard of Oz

By | March 20, 2019

by The Panic Room Gravesend (website)

The Grove, DA12 1DP

Gravesend

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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Are you ready to go on the adventure of a lifetime? It's time to visit the incredible land of OZ.
Follow the yellow brick road and make your way into the beautiful Emerald City, perhaps even meet the wizard himself!
You'll be sure to make some friends along the way too, so you'll need to work together to fix your hot air balloon in time. You'll just need a little Courage, Heart and Brains!
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based on ratings from 33 users
combined with 10 pro reviews

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coupleofescapees experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenfamily friendlymagical
OperationEscape rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 15 Oct 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 48.00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Magical, a classic, loved it. Would recommend to groups of all abilities.

Foxybingo2785 experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 26 Sep 2018 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingfamily friendly
Kimchi experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Ceejay94 experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 19 Nov 2024 Team size: 5 Outcome: Failed 🙁
poor hostingquite difficult

The puzzles matched the theme until the very end, and it was hard to work in a bigger group it was a very small space! 

Charlie goodman-smith rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
Richard iles experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 29 Jul 2019 Team size: 5 Outcome: Failed 🙁
immersivefamily friendlyquite difficult

We found this quite tricky, it was well thought out.

OrangeLeek expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 4 Aug 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivefamily friendlyquite easy

A lovely room that is perfect for families. Puzzles are easy, and while there is a lot to do in the second part of the room, you get cracking through it pretty quickly. 

Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunpoor hosting

This would be a great game for families! Some fun elements and interesting puzzles. We didn't have a very good host unfortunately, he seemed bored!

DypanicDuo host experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 21 Feb 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 29:50 Outcome: Successful escape!
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With so many rooms based on classic stories ranging from Alice In Wonderland to Sherlock and Dracula it’s perhaps surprising that there aren’t more escape rooms themed for The Wizard of Oz; aside from one play at home game, this is the first I’ve seen. The Panic Room’s take on the story tasks you with finding courage, heart and brains through a set of locations familiar from the book or movie.

Suitably for the theme, Oz is pitched for family groups, with the ideal audience being a group with ad...

Don’t be fooled by the theme, this room will give both families and enthusiasts entertainment, and is challenging enough for both.
A round-up of five games I played at the Panic Room with highlights being Wizard of Oz and Revolucion Ole.

Fans of the original book or film will be absolutely delighted by this escape room as both the decor and the story are very true to the original! Or at least, I think they are. It’s been a good 15 years since I’ve watched the film and *gasp* I’ve never read the book.

We are taken down the yellow brick road to lend a hand to The Tinman, The Scarecrow and Lion to help them look after the Emerald City.

A pleasant hot air ballon ride and an even more pleasant crash landing took us to the wonderful kingdom of Oz. We found ourselves dealing with flying monkeys, mice and a rather angry Toto. Lions and Scarecrows and Tin Men, oh my!
The theming of this room was incredible! It really felt like stepping into The Emerald City and even though there were plenty of puzzles to be getting stuck into, we couldn’t help but pause to admire the décor!

A well designed and good looking room, some really good puzzles, some a little different to the norm, a very nice room. 

Another solid game from the guys at The Panic Room. Dont let the family theme fool you, its still a work out for your brain cells.

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