by Cliffhanger Rooms (website)
The Stone Barn, Lakeland Village, LA12 8PX
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
You are a member of a successful crime syndicate, and your specialty has always been safe cracking. Today, you’ll be facing your greatest challenge yet, as you and your team attempt a heist at the Hatton Garden safe.
Your inside man “Basil” has just completed phase one of the heist – he has ensured the building is empty and gained access to the manager’s office, where the door to the vault awaits. He has assessed the situation and has reported that this particular vault is going to be difficult to compromise. Basil has discreetly hidden clues, tools and hints around the office which you will need to complete your job as safe cracker.
Basil also reports that he has suspended the security system for 55 minutes. After that amount of time, the alarm will be activated, and you will have 5 minutes from that point to escape before law enforcement arrives.
If you do manage to enter the vault, you will have to make a crucial decision: take the available money and run, or stay just a little longer to try to significantly increase your take.
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based on ratings from 6 users
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Sabrina (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:
Played: 3 Sep 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 41:20 Outcome: Successful escape!
Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:
Played: 3 Sep 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 41:20 Outcome: Successful escape!
Fairly standard heist style room, math haters might dislike the number of times the calculator came into play.
Anonymous rated this:
Outcome: Successful escape!
A digital room but with a host who can nudg you back in the right direction, if you've played the room in Cumbria then some puzzles will be familiar to you, but there are some new ones in there too.
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A mixed room that will likely appeal to novices but may leave enthusiasts feeling that there's too much process required to solve the puzzles. Overall, I enjoyed it but if you get frustrated easily then steer clear!
One of the more out-of-the-way locations for an escape room, Cliffhanger Rooms is in the small town of Newby Bridge in the southern part of the Lake District. Remote enough we may never have gotten to it, were it not for my parents conveniently moving to a village ten minutes down the road. So a birthday trip was combined with a parental visit and we made the short drive from Grange-Over-Sands to the next village over.
The decor in this room was not as exciting as the other two rooms but it’s incredibly difficult to make an office interior exciting, which is where you need to start to move on to the vault. It has to make sense to the theme though and it did.
See also
Other versions of this game:
- Cliffhanger Rooms: The Hatton Garden Bank Heist (audio-led) (not available)
- Cliffhanger Rooms: Bank Heist (audio-led) (not available)