by Breakout Chester (website)
42 Bridge Street Row, CH1 1NN
2-5 players
60 minutes
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Do not be fooled. This room is rated 3/5 difficulty and posed as one of the easiest games on their website, however it was not easy by any stretch of the imagine. This room has LOADS to do.
Some rooms have a great mixture of math puzzles log puzzles, obvservation, physical puzzles etc. Cursed Carnival is very VERY padlock heavy (which we dont actually mind) and involves a lot of searching, (something else we dont actually mind)
Its greatly on theme throughout and the puzzles are perfectly logical. This actually turned out to be our favourite room of 4 that we played in one day (disturbed, dark magic and excalibur being the others)
Some people may be put off by the theme, however its purely there for theming and storyline, and not scary at all so perfectly suitable for all

#7
A fun experience here, they went all out with the decoration and it looks great, wasnβt too difficult so I would recommend this before tackling something like Forsaken or Excalibur. Donβt be fooled by the βCursedβ moniker though, this is family friendly. Would recommend if youβre heading to Breakout.

Fun room which will probably be great for beginners. Its quite linier in its flow without much walking backwards and forwards so always feels like you're progressing. The carnival theme is kept well throughout and it has a nice mix of puzzles that everyone can get involved in. The name "cursed" carnival and the description make it sound quite scary but it's not at all and would be suitable for families to enjoy. We had fun in this room and would recommend it.


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.
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