Breakout Liverpool: Cursed Carnival

By | March 20, 2019

by Breakout Liverpool (website)

7-11 Sir Thomas Street, L1 6BW

Liverpool

2-5 players

60 minutes

You and your friends have won yourself a prize at the local carnival, but it's a prize with a difference. Since you took it home, you have been plagued by strange dreams and a haunting voice that tells you to return your prize within 7 days. You return to the site of the carnival on the 7th day and enter the old workshop where you must solve the mystery with only an hour left before the clock strikes midnight. Can you break the curse in 60 minutes or will your nightmares come true...
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Rated between 2.5 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 33 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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caroline354 expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Jess Phillips rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 59 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
overpricedplain😨creepy
knoh39 experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendly
EscapeCarrtists rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 7 Jun 2019 Team size: 3 Time taken: 56:17 Outcome: Successful escape!
good decorquite difficult😨creepy

Played this room as a group of 3, for a three star rated room it’s definitely one of the harder ones. Plenty of puzzles to solve the room decorations matched the theme perfectly

TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Great introduction game - Easy for experienced players.

MerseyMarauders expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivefamily friendly
grogu42 experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
ratsontour expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 13 Oct 2019 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy
Lise expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 2016 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

We escaped the Cursed Carnival at Breakout Liverpool back in 2016 with Team Raging Clue. We picked this room as it was the easiest one according to the stats, so we can slowly and surely build up to the most difficult rooms.   The layout of the room itself wasn’t that bad, with new surprises at each corner and a nice carnival soundtrack. We had a good fair amount of laughs throughout our 44 minutes of game but I regret few things: – the lights being maybe too bright indulging a bit the atmosphere of what could have been a really creepy carnival room; – some puzzles were a bit far-fetched (and even after sleeping on it, we still haven’t understand their logic). – and finally, the ending was a bit of a let down: the door opened by itself before we finished completing the last puzzle… !   We first thought someone opened it by mistake as we were still trying to sort out our last puzzle!

EscapeCarrtists rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 10 Jul 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:33 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivenquite difficult

Played this with a newbie and thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and puzzles. Kept us on our toes throughout and our own stupid mistakes made us take longer. 

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Rated as the easiest of Breakout Liverpool's games, we added Cursed Carnival to our schedule partly for the theme and partly just because it was available at a convenient slot time. With most of Breakout's games being on the easy side for experienced players, I was expecting Carnival to be brief and insubstantial, but was pleased to discover that it's actually one of their better games, and not noticeably shorter.

Every now and again an escape game gives you an item or clue before you go into t...

A reasonably well themed, not very scary carnival game. Good puzzles and a reasonable flow made this an enjoyable experience.

We have sinister dreams about a doll possessed by a little girl that wants us to help free her from a carnival. Can we save her?

This room was okay, but it could have been so much more! Click the link to find out our thoughts!

A fun and lower difficulty room that is great for beginners and surprisingly very family-friendly, despite its supposedly creepy theme.

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