Escape Hunt Reading: Escape The Wild West

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Hunt Reading (website)

Kings Walk, 19-23 King St, RG1 2HG

Reading

2-6 players

60 minutes

Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details
You’ve struck gold but word got out and now the vultures are circling.
Step into the Wild West, where the tiny frontier town of East Victoria is celebrating the discovery of gold.
But the celebrations turn sour when news arrives that the bloodthirsty Bill French Gang are on their way to claim the gold – and kill everyone in East Victoria for good measure!
With no sheriff around and no cavalry riding to the rescue your only hope is a rusty old locomotive that hasn’t worked in years – but with just one hour to get it going and escape with your lives, you need to think fast and work even faster.
There isn’t a second to lose.
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Escape_2023 expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
broken techoverpriced
Sabrina (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 12/05/2019 Time taken: 54:02:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 4 Time taken: 45:21 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivequite easy

I think this is the only Escape Hunt room I can truly say that I enjoyed.

kristinaescapes rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 4 Time taken: 45:21 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersive
Kelly Archer experienced rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Team size: 2

Decent ideas but a few flaws made it a bit frustrating

thelonewhovian rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 07/05/2023 Team size: 1 Time taken: 59:46 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersiveintensequite difficult
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
Played: 2 Jan 2020 Team size: 5 Time taken: 52:24
illogicalpoor hosting
MightyMidds experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Tom Alcock expert rated this:Rated between 10 and 10 out of 5
Played: 16 Oct 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 54:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techoverpriced
We were running late but rushed to get there for 4:15 and got there on time. We then sat around and didn't get in until 4:40

At least 3 mis resets. 

Everything was broken, everything had to be overridden and we always had to wait for it to happen

Then we completed everything and threw all the final pieces in, then we got told that we hadn't solved a puzzle and we're missing pieces. 

So we went back to the puzzle they told us to go back to and we told them that we'd already done it. 

Then they overrode it, so obviously weren't watching. 

The GM was very keen to offer us 50% off next time

Oh and everything was tatty as hell, there was meant to be some writing on a cloth that you needed to read, but it was completely unreadable too. 

For £100 for 4 people, pretty terrible value really. 

TeamHawley experienced rated this:Rated between 10 and 10 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techpoor hostingoverpriced

Everything was broken, poor hosting. Really disappointing.

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Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt's Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty frontier town (incongruously but conveniently already formed into bars), you now need to make a quick exit by train before the local gangsters arrive to take it all from you.

That premise is used for an unusual scoring system. You need to find as many...

At the time of writing, I’ve played every one of Escape Hunt’s escape rooms and I can safely say that Escape the Wild West is my favourite, followed by Blackbeard’s Treasure. 
Gold! We've struck gold in the Old West! But... Uh oh, a gang of thieves is on the way to claim the gold and finish us off. Someone better call the sheriff!

Escape Hunt, Oxford impressed us with one of our favourite games to date. Since playing ‘Escape the Wild West’ we’ve been and played all the other rooms at Escape Hunt, Oxford

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