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 Lincoln

liam and rosie experienced rated this:

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

😨creepy

reviewed in Blackpool

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:

Played: 07/01/16

reviewed in Peterborough

Brian experienced rated this:

Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Blackpool

Scotus0 expert rated this:

Played: 31/10/2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: ~59:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Lab Life

I’m sad to hear that Escape Blackpool is no longer open, as this was an impressive room.

Story

You and your fellow scientists have contracted a virus that’s killing the world. Create a vaccine and escape the locked-down laboratory before it’s incinerated! A scenario that I now know is very, very common in the world of escape rooms, but this was my first time saving the world from a deadly disease.

Puzzles

This was a very tricky room! There were several clever features and quirky uses of apparatus that you’d expect/hope to see in a lab-themed escape.

Mise-en-scène

Very white, very polished, very lab-like! The props provided appropriate touches: science utensils, reading material and gear. I love any room where outfits are given, and so the lab coats were appreciated.

Final Comments

We only received one hint from our Game Operator, and this was on how/where to use a particular tool. She clearly knew exactly what time(s) teams need a hint. It was a good room for a team of both beginners and more experienced players.

reviewed in Edinburgh

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reviewed in Newcastle upon Tyne

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reviewed in Lincoln

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 08/08/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:57 Outcome: Successful escape!

How appropriate, a room based on finding the vaccine to a global pandemic! You are in a lab environment and have to solve some lab based puzzles, some clever technology is used to good effect and the perennial periodic table makes another appearance. I wasn't a fan of the final puzzle and we got out with 3 seconds to spare and it was literally a guess. Space is a little confined and some of the locks might be confusing if you've never seen the type before.

reviewed in Peterborough

Tim Cooper expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

plainunoriginalquite easy

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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