Escape Live Birmingham: Dr Watson’s Office

An easy and quick room to solve with a linear, logical flow. 

This is ideal for semi-experienced teams. It may feel too easy for experienced, and it can be a little too obscure for beginners who still lack the right automatisms in the room. 

We escaped in under 30 mins as a team of 2. There were some nice puzzles, and some a little flawed but not enough to break the immersion or the progression in the game. 

A fun room with a great story and flow. Enjoyable solves, hosting left a little to be desired

I can highly recommend this room! Having now completed Escape Live Birmingham's traditional rooms, this was one of their best. It's very traditional, so it's a great starter room, if you're new to Escapes. It was very traditional in terms of tech too. As a team, this was one of our fastest rooms, but I don't think that's because it's the easiest. I think it was just slightly unoriginal, so we've seen a lot of similar puzzles before. That's why I think this is a great starter room. The hosting was brilliant - and we had no clues! It was lovely to have the space we required to attempt the game ourselves, and we could dictate the when we wanted clues.

A major, major plus point for us is that everything worked! It's a well kept room, which allowed us to focus on game play and no need for the GM to intervene. Perfect. 

As a team, we also prefer non-linear games, and this fit the bill.