Locked in Edinburgh: The Distillery

By | March 20, 2019

by Locked in Edinburgh (website)

1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL

Edinburgh

2-5 players

60 minutes

Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details🐶
Delve into the depths of modern day Summerhall, a cultural center for arts and alcohol lovers alike! We’ve partnered up with our neighbours at Pickering’s Gin to create a challenging and immersive experience- Locked in the Distillery.
Your mission here is to uncover the identity of the disgruntled employee plotting against the Distillery, find out what they’re up to, save yourself and save the gin!
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based on ratings from 19 users
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d.green26 expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 22 Jul 2024 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfamily friendly
DypanicDuo experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 28 Aug 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 39:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting
gamesmaster13 rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 50:27
value for moneyclevergreat hosting
A really great room, immersive and cleverly thought out. GM was so attentive and helpful, not overbearing with clues but we were never waiting about with nothing to do. Very accessible for two people, would definitely recommend. 
RJ Chowdhury experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivengreat hostingintense
Really really fun room, having done more than 50 escape rooms.

Wasn't too challenging for a team of two, but definitely kept you on your toes! It's a mostly traditional escape room, with some interesting tech.

I really enjoyed it and the host was fab - definitely coming back to do the other rooms. 

Only thing I would change would be a better clue system, with sound playing when you get a clue, and clues coming up after being typed - but it wasn't walkie talkies, so that is a huge plus! 
puzzlepalooza experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5

Probably the Lockedin room that gets the least attention, but super fun nonetheless. Lockedin Edinburgh is one of my favourite venues in the country. Bravo!

Sandie Morris rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 23 Aug 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49.37 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techoriginalintense

4thnroomnas a duo with my 11yo.

Lots to do, but we plowed on through, found the spy -but alas failed on the last little test.

Lots of fun and lovely hosting. We were given a quick tour of the rest of the rooms, hopefully we'll be able to come back soon to do the rest!

StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 08/03/2020 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
jonjames rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 23 Apr 2019 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalfamily friendly
👽benjed rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivestory-drivenquite difficult
meggshe rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 20 Nov 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 40 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven
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With Distillery, Locked In continue their exceptional standard of theming and props. Here the equipment used for the room comes courtesy of an actual gin distillery elsewhere in the building, and it looks fantastic.

The largest and most impressive items in the game are sadly purely decorative, though clearly marked as such. A couple of surfaces are marked as suitable for writing notes on with a highlighter, which is a great alternative to a whiteboard or pen and paper.

A good portion of this g...

A roundup of the three games at Locked In Edinburgh. The Secret Lab is the jewel in their crown but Animal Hospital and the Distillery both deliver solid experiences too.

The Distillery might be the easiest of the three, but it's a nice challenge nonetheless. It looks nice - I mean, it's literally set within the Pickering's Gin premises, so of course the distillery looks like one - and some puzzles were fairly original. Once again, we felt swamped by the amount of things to do (and that crazy-yet-somehow-justified lock count), and I gave up on keeping a live count of my tallies.

“Why the hell would I want to escape from a gin distillery?” was the unarguably correct point made by a friend when trying to explain this game to her. The answer is that it’s one of those escape rooms where you’re not actually trying to escape. Rather you’ve got sixty minutes to find out which of the disgruntled employees has been plotting against the distillery.
There were a decent variety of puzzles that played to all of our strengths at different points in the room. They were mostly non-linear which is our preferred style but all came together neatly at the end to join us all back up for the final ‘aha’ moment at the end, 
A good humoured “whodunnit” style game with great theming and some really fun puzzles.

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