Escape Glasgow: Contagion

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Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, G2 6HJ

2-5 players

60 minutes

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Your team of fellow scientists have been working tirelessly to create a vaccine for the fatal CYE disease. Everyone believes that you are on the cusp of defeating it. Unfortunately your work has taken a turn for the worse and you have all managed to contract the virus.

There are two options:

Either sit around and let it take you or redouble your efforts and create a vaccine.

This is not your only problem. After creating the vaccine you must find a way to defeat the lock down on the laboratory. The quarantine timer is set to 60 minutes, after which the room and all traces of your work will be incinerated. You must do this if the rest of humanity is to benefit from your work.

Get your white coat and your safety goggles on as you prepare for Contagion....
Our first themed game for Glasgow, Contagion is also our first multi-room live escape game. It will demand outside the box thinking with an interesting array of problem solving, code-breaking and other various puzzles.

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WinglessArchangel experienced rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

plainquite easy

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

reviewed in York

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reviewed in Lincoln

liam and rosie experienced rated this:

Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!

😨creepy

reviewed in York

gamesmaster13 experienced rated this:

Team size: 5 Time taken: 57:35 Outcome: Successful escape!

cleverpoor hostingunoriginalquite difficult

Some really clever puzzles in this room- we went in the first week it opened, but some tech was already broken 🙁 GM couldn't hear us so kept giving us clues to puzzles we had already done, and at the start, the room just looks like an office space filled with Ikea furniture. It does get better, but it's a shame the same amount of effort wasn't put into the beginning of the room.

reviewed in Ipswich

Dawne20 rated this:

Played: 10 Jun 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56.22 Outcome: Successful escape!

poor hostingoverpriced

We have played a lot of escape rooms and we definitely prefer the independent escape rooms, the chain rooms just don't cut it. We did not get this room and did not enjoy it.

reviewed in York

Anonymous rated this:

Played: 23 Oct 2023 Team size: 5 Time taken: ? Outcome: Successful escape!

good themingbroken techpoor hosting

Our host was nice, but we'd been before so were all too familiar with how touch and go the clues can get here. Played soon after the opening, but a piece of tech was already broken and the venue did not look cleaned up (construction bits, wood, etc). We would wave for a clue only to be given hints about a puzzle we'd already completed. The room itself was nicely built and costumes for an immersion -- just a bit of a let down.

reviewed in Peterborough

A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Lincoln

Adrienne Ward rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

illogicalquite difficult

Last clue was just ridiculously obscure.

reviewed in Peterborough

Kerrie Wykes rated this:

Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

reviewed in Ipswich

A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.

reviewed in Blackpool

If you're lucky enough to get a good GM then this is a solid room and one we would happily recommend to enthusiasts

reviewed in Peterborough

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reviewed in Sheffield

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reviewed in Blackpool

The premise of Operation Contagion is fairly straightforward. There’s a zombie apocalypse sweeping the globe and the world is in lockdown – not too hard to imagine post-2020, hey! – but this laboratory has developed a cure. Great! We’re saved! Only the lab is also in lockdown and there’s just 60 minutes before it self-incinerates. Ahh, not so great.

reviewed in York