by Escape Newcastle (website)
95-97 Grainger Street, NE1 5AE
2-6 players
60 minutes
Enrolment is just 60 minutes away and some prankster has played a terrible trick on you and hidden your wand. Explore the depths of the castle and find your wand before the school bell rings.
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SiSitAndWait rated this:
Played: 22 Jan 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 49:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivefamily friendly
A Harry Potter room without saying Harry Potter ha!
Some very original moments in this game with some clever surprised made this a fun game for our team. One of the closing puzzles we had never seen anything like and it was really well executed.
Anonymous rated this:
Played: Team size: 4 Time taken: Outcome: Successful escape!
Barry Hammond experienced rated this:
Played: 13/10/2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 37 Outcome: Successful escape!
Arjay Henshall expert rated this:
Played: Team size: 2 Time taken: 52.30 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Witchcraft & Wizardry is certainly a pretty room, with plenty of fan service to those who like the Harry Potter franchise. It's also a noticeably small room, which means this is a game I'd recommend playing with a small team.
To my cynical eye it was rather heavily based on unlocking one padlocked drawer after another, with a few more red herring items than I can approve of. The rule that everything is used exactly once was broken in the other direction too, with an item being unexpectedly need...
A pretty room with a reasonable and nicely structured set of puzzles. Although it could most definitely be improved, we enjoyed our time in the game and, as London games go, it would sneak into my top half.
If things were running smoothly this is probably an ok room, particularly for children or new players. But if you’re an enthusiast I think you’ll find this room rather lacking and one to avoid.
In the almost-year since I’ve visited, but it definitely stands out as one of my favourites of 2020. I’d recommend this for a beginner team, a team of magic fans, or anyone wanting a satisfying escape room experience.
We needed a family-friendly room, and this fits the bill beautifully - minimal jeopardy in a fantastical yet cosily familiar world.
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Other copies of this game in other locations:
- Escape London (Shadwell): Witchcraft and Wizardry (East London) (closed)
- Escape Peterborough: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Peterborough)
- Escape Sheffield: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Sheffield)
- Escape Skegness: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Skegness)
- Escape Stoke: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Stoke-on-Trent)
- Escape Colchester: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Colchester)
- Escape Dundee: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Dundee)
- Escape Glasgow: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Glasgow)
- Escape Hull: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Kingston upon Hull)
- Escape Livingston: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Livingston)
- Escape Leicester: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Leicester)
- Escape Leamington Spa: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Leamington Spa) (closed)
- Escape Milton Keynes: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Milton Keynes)
- Escape Plymouth: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Plymouth)
- Escape Stirling: Witchcraft & Wizardry (Stirling)
- Escape London (Shadwell): Witchcraft and Wizardry (East London)
- Escape Edinburgh: Witchcraft and Wizardry (Edinburgh)
- Escape Dublin: Witchcraft & Wizardry (Dublin)