Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Escape The Wild West

By | March 20, 2019
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by Escape Hunt Edinburgh (website)

Upper floors, 26 Castle Street, EH2 3HT

Edinburgh

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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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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based on ratings from 56 users
combined with 8 pro reviews

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Jen Wells (Get Wells Soon) expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

As always with Escape Hunt, no effort has been spared making sure the theme is on point; some great challenges and quirky problems to solve.

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Claire Stephens rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
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zchaaln rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 12 Mar 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:29 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifuloriginalstory-driven
Alwaysablast rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 6 Oct 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 40:52 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenbroken tech

Disappointing room, a couple of puzzles hadn't been reset properly, some had to be over ridden by the game master and some just didn't make any sense or flow at all. 

caroline354 expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
spbc expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 25 May 2023 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
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SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
shatters rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 4 Jan 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 44:21 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulstory-drivengreat hosting
We really enjoyed this room. Really well built, good simple theming. Puzzles made sense and only one was a bit annoying breaking the 4th wall where the host was waiting for us to sit in a certain way and then would push a button.  Interesting finish where you could escape with lots of gold or a little depending on how you were doing, and one puzzle that took a rarely used sense to solve. Good design. 
thelonewhovian rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 07/05/2023 Team size: 1 Time taken: 59:46 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersiveintensequite difficult
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8/10
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!

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...

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reviewed in Manchester
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. 
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reviewed in Manchester
A brilliant room to play!

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

reviewed in Oxford

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