Escape Hunt Birmingham: Blackbeard’s Treasure

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Hunt Birmingham (website)

120 - 122 Corporation Street, The Square, B4 6SX

Birmingham

2-6 players

60 minutes

Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details
Blackbeard is dead, his loot lies unguarded. Sink or swim? It’s up to you.
Step onto a pirate galleon in the middle of a battle for control of the High Seas. Your captain, the terrifying Blackbeard, has just been killed and his ship is shot to pieces and sinking fast.
With no chance of victory, you and your scurvy shipmates decide to jump ship – after helping yourself to the contents of Blackbeard’s legendary treasure chest.
You’ve broken into his cabin to grab all you can, but now the door has jammed shut and you’ve just 60 minutes to escape; any longer and you’ll drown – if the sharks don’t get you first.
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based on ratings from 76 users
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Em_Jess713 rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: Sept 2021 Team size: 3
immersive

If you don't like the smell of dirty water, you might feel a bit nauseous in this room! Personally for me, I thought the theming, even down to the smell, was just absolutely fantastic and so immersive. Personally my favourite pirate themed room I've done.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1 and 1 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1 and 1 out of 5
Jemileh experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 6 Jan 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
Stevie Davies expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: September 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 34m 56s
immersive
Lindsey Carey (Dinner Jackets) expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 26 Jul 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 34:02
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting

Thanks so much to Bronwyn, their hosting really added to the experience for us. We enjoyed the room so much more because we felt they were genuinely taking notice of what we were doing.

Thanks for making our experience great. 

Alice Lucy rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 2 May 2022 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
coco974 rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hosting

Brilliantly themed and set up room - there's no mistaking it's a pirate ship! The surroundings and puzzles were perfectly on theme.

This was only our second or third room so most of the puzzles were new to us, but still easy enough to complete as a team of 2 newbies. There was one task that we just could not do - even with a clue from the GM we just could not recreate the sound correctly, in the end we asked for help again, eventually reaching a solution. But good luck with that if you're like us and completely tone deaf. Also, when we went back and did the room next to this one, we could still hear that particular task, that sound haunts us 😂

Overall, brilliant room, brilliant theme, brilliant puzzles, brilliant GM. 

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 20/10/18
Siân O'Brien experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 12/09/2020 Team size: 5 Time taken: 35:27 Outcome: Successful escape!

I loved this! It was brilliant. It was possibly our best ever time and we made it onto this months leader board! So it was an easier room, in my opinion. (possibly adapted for Covid?) 

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The game themes that Escape Hunt have been rolling out sound a little like costume ideas for a children's party: cowboys, vikings, Doctor Who, pirates. Since this is an industry that deals in escapism, that's all to the good, and we eagerly signed up for their Blackbeard game.

Your job is to sneak into the cabin of the recently deceased Captain Blackbeard and swipe his loot before the ship sinks; our gamemaster played the role of our confederate on the outside with gusto. Pirate themes always s...

The tale of Blackbeard's Treasure goes - you and your team find yourself stranded on a sinking pirate ship. Sure, you could immediately jump ship and row your way across the ocean to safety but where would be the fun in that? Plus, rumour has it there is treasure aboard. The legendary Blackbeard's Treasure. It's hidden somewhere inside his personal quarters and its your job to find it and get to safety before the ship sinks.

Our least favourite game that we have played at Escape Hunt. The puzzles could have been really good but their execution was somewhat lacking. An enjoyable game overall however

We headed to Oxford only to end up on Blackbeards Sinking Ship. See how we got on finding the treasure and escaping a watery grave!

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