by Escapologic (website)
21 Castle Gate, NG1 7AQ
2-5 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Strange machinery breathes in the stillness of the laboratory. Bubbles rise in a mysterious green liquid. Cogs click. Gears clank. And in the air, the unmistakable sound of fear...
As your breathing stills and your pulse slows to normal, you take a look around. What happened here? Somebody left the room in a hurry. But why? Your eyes grow accustomed to the dim, dusty light, and you begin to make out the discarded pieces of arcane mechanisms. There has to be a pattern, a code, something to show you the way out.
Contraption was the first of our Nottingham escape rooms, and its fiendish ingenuity has given it legendary status. Can you put the clues together before the clock hits zero?
Employ a combination of wits, nerve and inspiration to beat the machine and find your way out. With false steps at every corner, willing you to fail, the only way to outwit Contraption is to work together. Use your team's individual skills to solve physical and mental puzzles, crack cryptic codes, and unravel the secret escape route left by the mysterious inventor.
Solve the riddle, or the last sound you’ll hear will be the cogs of the lock, as they turn and seal you in forever.
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Whilst it is the oldest room at Escapologic it certainly has aged extremely well. A great fun game with fantastic theming and quite a few puzzles we weren't expecting and hadn't seen before. Genuinely well worth doing and travelling for. A real treat for the eyes!
We were delighted to get Willow as our GM again after meeting him on a previous visit and loving his style and he didn't disappoint. Great hosting with a fab sense of humour.
Great room with fun puzzles. A little on the easier side for us but we enjoyed it. Defo recommend.
Contraption is the oldest game at Escapologic and at 9 years I expected to find it in pieces (having had some bad experiences in older games this year). I was happily relieved to see this game, whilst having a couple of rough edges still looks pretty good for it's age. the gameplay is mostly linear but with only a couple of padlocks, there's more technology in the room then you might initially think. Our host was Evie (I think) and she was great throughout, hinting us (with a clever clue system) at just the right moments to nudge us back on the path. Nothing in this room will wow you but it was a very fun thing to do for an hour.
Not a super long game. With the exception of me being incapable of spelling a word there wasn't anything that held us up. Worked well as a warmup for Curio 🙂
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Contraption is Escapologic's original game, the first of what is now eight different escape rooms at their Nottingham location, and it's clear why the venue made a splash from the outset. The game is a steampunk-y fest of cogs and pipes and machines that dispenses with padlocks in favour of an array of imaginatively different mechanisms.
Your first task on entering the room is to turn on the lights. It's not pitch black, fortunately (there are enough metal doodads around that the room might be ...
Escapologic in Nottingham, UK is one of those must-play venues and has been nominated in the TERPECA’s every year, so when I heard that they were opening a remote avatar room, I was rather curious to see which one it would be. I guessed it would be one of two, and one of my guesses, “Contraption”, was correct.
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- Escapologic: Contraption (remote livestream) (not available)