Escape Newcastle: Contagion

liam and rosie experienced rated this:

Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!

😨creepy

reviewed in Ipswich

Dawne20 rated this:

Played: 10 Jun 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56.22 Outcome: Successful escape!

poor hostingoverpriced

We have played a lot of escape rooms and we definitely prefer the independent escape rooms, the chain rooms just don't cut it. We did not get this room and did not enjoy it.

A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

Adrienne Ward rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

illogicalquite difficult

Last clue was just ridiculously obscure.

Kerrie Wykes rated this:

Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

Anonymous rated this:

plainunoriginalsmall

This room is inside an active school. You walk through the school with kids in classrooms to get to the escape room. Very odd indeed. This room also had an internal window into the school corridor which the students sat on and we spent the whole game listening to petty childish squabbles and arguments about fornite. Not an ideal location for an escape room when you want to be immersed in the story. The room itself is tiny with basic puzzles. You can see there has been an attempt to make this game stand out but they've basically just crowbar'd in some irrelevant tech.

reviewed in Leamington Spa

TeamDenton experienced rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

family friendly

This was a fun room, our main complaint was that it felt like we were given a bit too much information at the start. There weren’t loads of tactile interactive elements so this room was less about searching and props than it was about logic and puzzling.

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Lee Taylor rated this:

Played: 15 Apr 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:22

plain

Wasn't much in this room, it wasn't bad but I would recommend spending your money on another room.

🎲A Jones experienced rated this:

Played: 2 Apr 2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 41:17 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Anonymous rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

broken techpoor hostingunoriginal

Jordan Brown experienced rated this:

Played: 7 Aug 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:43 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Blackpool

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:

Played: 07/01/16

reviewed in Glasgow

WinglessArchangel experienced rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

plainquite easy

Amy Lowson rated this:

Played: 18/02/2019 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

Tim Cooper expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

plainunoriginalquite easy

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 08/08/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:57 Outcome: Successful escape!

How appropriate, a room based on finding the vaccine to a global pandemic! You are in a lab environment and have to solve some lab based puzzles, some clever technology is used to good effect and the perennial periodic table makes another appearance. I wasn't a fan of the final puzzle and we got out with 3 seconds to spare and it was literally a guess. Space is a little confined and some of the locks might be confusing if you've never seen the type before.

reviewed in Edinburgh

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reviewed in Glasgow

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reviewed in Blackpool

Scotus0 expert rated this:

Played: 31/10/2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: ~59:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Lab Life

I’m sad to hear that Escape Blackpool is no longer open, as this was an impressive room.

Story

You and your fellow scientists have contracted a virus that’s killing the world. Create a vaccine and escape the locked-down laboratory before it’s incinerated! A scenario that I now know is very, very common in the world of escape rooms, but this was my first time saving the world from a deadly disease.

Puzzles

This was a very tricky room! There were several clever features and quirky uses of apparatus that you’d expect/hope to see in a lab-themed escape.

Mise-en-scène

Very white, very polished, very lab-like! The props provided appropriate touches: science utensils, reading material and gear. I love any room where outfits are given, and so the lab coats were appreciated.

Final Comments

We only received one hint from our Game Operator, and this was on how/where to use a particular tool. She clearly knew exactly what time(s) teams need a hint. It was a good room for a team of both beginners and more experienced players.