Escape Lincoln: Contagion

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Lincoln (website)

Sessions House, Lincoln College, Monks Road, LN2 5HQ

Lincoln

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

closed
You've been infected with a virus. You have two options. Sit around and let it take you or redouble your efforts and retrieve a vaccine from an old medical facility.
This is not your only problem. After retrieving the vaccine you must find a way to defeat the lock down on the laboratory. The quarantine timer is set to 60 minutes
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based on ratings from 25 users
combined with 5 pro reviews

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liam and rosie experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
Adrienne Ward rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
illogicalquite difficult

Last clue was just ridiculously obscure. 

Anonymous expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
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. 
Lee Taylor rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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.

πŸ”James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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.
Dawne20 rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
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:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Kerrie Wykes rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!
TeamDenton experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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. 

amywoof rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.
If you're lucky enough to get a good GM then this is a solid room and one we would happily recommend to enthusiasts

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