Breakout Chester: Cursed Carnival

42 Bridge Street Row, CH1 1NN

2-5 players

60 minutes

You and your friends have won a prize at the local carnival, but it's a prize with a difference. Since you've taken it home, you have been tormented by strange dreams and a haunting voice that tells you that you must return your prize within 7 days. You return to the carnival on the 7th day and enter the old repair shed where you must solve the mystery with only an hour left before the clock strikes midnight. Can you break the curse in 60 minutes or will your nightmares come true...

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EscapeCarrtists rated this:

Played: 10 Jul 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:33 Outcome: Successful escape!

cleverstory-drivenquite difficult

Played this with a newbie and thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and puzzles. Kept us on our toes throughout and our own stupid mistakes made us take longer.

Chris Metcalfe experienced rated this:

Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

value for moneygreat hosting

TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:

Team size: 2

beautifulgreat hosting

Nothing special, but another great starter game from BOL.

Jess_keds expert rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

funnyfamily friendlyvery easy

roberts0502 expert rated this:

Played: 16 Nov 2019 Team size: 5 Time taken: 45:00:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

immersiveintense👻scary

Adam S experienced rated this:

Played: 29 Sep 2018 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

lizratesrooms experienced rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!

family friendly😨creepy

Philip & Gemma rated this:

Played: 30 Dec 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

value for moneyimmersivequite easy😨creepy

This room has a great carnival theme, with a slighty creepy undertone (mostly having to carry a creepy doll around with you).

The space seems big as you are constantly moving into new sections of the game. The puzzles aren't particuarly hard but are mostly themed well to the room.

The room was enjoyable and had enough to do that it was satisfying to work through and complete. It is definitely suitable to beginner players.

thehermit experienced rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

We played forgotten to not long after it opened to the public, and the room itself looks really great. However it felt like there was a few clunky puzzles in here that left us scratching our heads and needed explaining.

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This room was okay, but it could have been so much more! Click the link to find out our thoughts!

A fun and lower difficulty room that is great for beginners and surprisingly very family-friendly, despite its supposedly creepy theme.

Rated as the easiest of Breakout Liverpool's games, we added Cursed Carnival to our schedule partly for the theme and partly just because it was available at a convenient slot time. With most of Breakout's games being on the easy side for experienced players, I was expecting Carnival to be brief and insubstantial, but was pleased to discover that it's actually one of their better games, and not noticeably shorter.

Every now and again an escape game gives you an item or clue before you go into t...

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