Make Your Escape: Spellbound

By | March 20, 2019

by Make Your Escape (website)

First Floor, 4 Osmaston Road ('The Spot'), DE1 2HR

Derby

4-10 players

60 minutes

Deaf friendly - contact the venue for details
In the witchcraft trials of 1607, two women were convicted in Derby despite protesting innocence. For centuries, their woodland cabin remained untouched.
Now their story continues: one of mystery, deception and magic...and you will become part of the legend.
Work together as a team to solve the puzzles and escape.
Something wicked this way comes...
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based on ratings from 48 users
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gfdubbs rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
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Schteeeve experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 60 Outcome: Failed 🙁
clevermagicalin need of updatingvery difficult

A great room with excellent theming and a really nice range of puzzles, including some very novel mechanics that feel incredibly satisfying when you figure them out.

The room is definitely a steep challenge for 2, and sadly we didn't quite make it out in time, but will definitely be trying again once some more time has passed!

Room could definitely do with some music to add to the experience, and a couple of aspects of the room did seem a tad worn and could do with renewing.

Team Jophie experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 27 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
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spbc expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 17 Apr 2022 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
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browngate experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Dan Getliffe experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 12 Nov 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingvery difficult

This was a good, but unfortunately not great room for me. It’s hard to talk about the things I didn’t like without giving too much away, but probably a combination of the story, first puzzle and space used. Two puzzles/object finding tasks are also essentially the same which threw me a bit. 

And I will bang this drum until I’ve played my last room - put some music/ambience in! It’s silent in there and you can hear people outside easily which really takes you out of the immersion…

Some good puzzles in here and certainly lots to do for two (maybe too much realistically), but I came out of this one feeling a bit underwhelmed after all the good things I had read about it. 

ashpf experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
AJ’s expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 31 Dec 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:31 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivestory-drivenquite difficult😨creepy

This game still sits firmly in our top 10 after playing a further 140 games since! The design of the room and the puzzles put in matching in with the style of the game was something fantastic to experience! Make sure you have your running shoes on if your a small group as there is a lot to do here! Definitely worth the trip to play this game! 

Elliott rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 7 Apr 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverbroken techquite difficult

This escape room is jam packed with lots of interesting and satisfying (sometimes difficult) puzzles, in particular I liked the one at the start. Lots for everyone to do, not a linear game. The only thing that left a bit of a sour taste was a broken (very very stiff) directional lock, and the host seemed to dissapear and not help us with it, which was frustrating.

Lawsome Foursome rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 9 Apr 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 48:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalepicquite difficult

Excellent room.  One of the best rooms we have done

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I'll be mostly echoing Chris here, but Spellbound is a lovely room that I'd enthusiastically recommend to pretty much anyone. It's a classic of a well-designed puzzle-driven game which benefits from a beautiful set, a fun start, and a thoroughly satisfying conclusion.

It's one of the least linear games I've played. I played with a team of four, and that was a good number to divide and conquer without feeling that I'd missed out on too much due to my teammates solving things while I was l...

A fun game, with pretty decorations and good puzzles. I can't imagine what it would be like with the full ten people but, for the two of us, it was most definitely a rewarding experience and well worth the trip over to Derby.
Spellbound is a mission, especially for a team of two. That’s why it’s normally recommended for 3+ players. It is achievable for a team of two, but it’s full on, with loads of puzzles and content to sift through - but from the very first puzzle, this game is a hoot!
It’s a big room full of puzzles. Okay, that’s a tad reductive for an intro, but I’m not sure how else to describe Spellbound. The theme is neat enough: like The Signal it’s based on a story from Derby’s history, but this time going all the way back to the witchcraft trials of the 1600s. You start the game split up, and there’s a clever test of teamwork and deduction before you can reach the room proper (it took us a good ten minutes, though we were playing with fewer than the recommended number of people).

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