by Paradox Parlours Guildford (website)
Jeffries Passage, GU1 4AP
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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combined with 3 pro reviews
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This was the first escape room I've done and it was brilliant.
The games takes place in the future where an artificial intelligence tries to take over the world and you have to stop it.
What makes this stand out is the interaction with the "AI" who was making jokes, trying to put us of and general causing mayham. For example one of the team was reading out a series of numbers to another player to enter the AI started listing random number to put us off.
4 of us completed this in just under an hour and it was a good mix of challenging puzzles and team work.
We have done a few escape rooms since, but this remains the best
Really fun game, hard work to complete as a 2, but not unachievable, just need to make sure the logical part of your brain is on top form, some of the puzzles take a bit of working out. As others have said, interacting with the AI makes for a unique and very different experience!
Quite a nice little game. Suffered from being done the day after Marvo Induction, so seemed pale in comparison. Puzzles were nice, although some were a little repetitive (solve this puzzle five times; solve this puzzle eight times; solve this puzzle and wait for 25 seconds). Nice audio track played throughout helped keep the gameplay immersive
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