by Exciting Escapes Portsmouth (website)
48 London Road, PO2 0LN
3-6 players
60 minutes
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based on ratings from 15 users
combined with 2 pro reviews
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Good escape room, with a range of skills needed to move through the challenges. We missed a couple of obvious things that slowed us down, and afterwards we felt like there were a few too many pointers to help us along. It was perhaps slightly linear at times, it never felt like there were loads of things in play at any one time. Good hosting. Room 11 for us!
Good room overall. Fun puzzles to complete and quite original - got us to engage all our senses!
Pretty easy (especially for four of us) to complete with no clues. Worth playing if you're in the area, though.
We hadn't done a room themed around a real cinema before. Some very cool props that made it seem immersive. The puzzles were clever and there was good signposting throughout the room, making it clear how to progress. We will be back to do their remaining rooms.
Enjoyed aspects of the theme and details, but felt that some of the puzzles were not logical / intuitive. Difficult as a team of 2 to be able to complete some of the puzzles, probably better as a larger group.
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Christmas travelling provided a handy excuse for a return visit to Exciting Escapes' Basingstoke branch, and the two rooms there that I hadn't previously played. The first was their 1960s game, which follows the company's convention of basing each room in a different decade. The theming extended to the background music, and after playing I had 60s hits going round my head for the rest of the day.
The other linking theme of Exciting Escapes' rooms is spies and espionage. In this one you're searc...
