Cryptic Escape: The Treasure of Green Beard

Augustine Steward House 14 Tombland, NR3 1HF

2-5 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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Green Beard, the notorious and ruthless pirate, famed for stealing valuable treasures throughout the Caribbean. He would usually sell or trade these valuables, however, there is one item he kept for himself, an amulet, which is rumoured to hold immense power. Many have searched for this amulet, none have succeeded or returned to tell the tale.

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Jodislaroue rated this:

Played: 27 May 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 40:30 Outcome: Successful escape!

escapeartist1212 expert rated this:

story-drivenfamily friendly

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family friendly

Lauren Haylock-Shanes rated this:

Played: 7 Feb 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hostingillogical

I don’t like red herrings

SLB177 rated this:

Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

beautifulfamily friendlyillogical

Great looking room. Puzzles were quite straightforward with a few redherrings

notanotherrobot rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 37

originalillogicalpoor hostingquite easy

Loved how this room started and I quite like the theme. Again let down by a poor host who really didn’t give us the impression that they wanted to be there. And what really lets this room down is a huge part of the room we completely bypassed so we never needed to open it and a red herring that I must’ve spent 10 minutes on and we still managed to get out in 37 minutes. Great decor great layout half decent storyline Poor hosting and I hate red herrings!

Anonymous experienced rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁

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Since this review is inevitably going to degenerate into a rant about 'good' difficulty versus 'bad' difficulty in escape rooms, let's start on a more positive note. The Treasure of Green Beard is nicely presented, a traditionally structured escape room that puts puzzle solving ahead of narrative, with a wide array of nautical knick-knacks used inventively. The structure is somewhat non-linear, with a number of tricky-ish search targets in a way that sets it up well to keep a medium or large tea...