Breakout Manchester: Sabotage

Difficult but enjoyable. Fun ending but the last puzzle was very hard.

Stop That Launch!

I was supposed to tackle this as a team of four, but someone dropped out last minute. As it's a five-star room, I went in with low hopes of breaking out.

Story

Save the world by stopping a missile strike.

Puzzles

Hard, with a capital H! Although we cracked some of them quickly, others had us completely stumped. They were army-themed, and a couple of practical tasks were involved to spice things up a bit. One of them stood out as particularly novel to me. Clues weren't coming when we needed them, but even so, we'd have needed many more to get out.

Mise-en-scène

'Enemy territory' was uninspired. As mentioned, the puzzles and props contributed to a military environment, but  it was otherwise a basic office.

Final Comments

We were at least four puzzles away from success. Take your best team for this room.

A great room with a lot of numbers! Only has a 26% success rate.. so pick wisely 🤣 

This is their hardest game, we liked it slightly less than the others more due to there being a lot of looking for things rather than puzzles, we find that harder. Still enjoyed it though. John was a fabulous host. 

Games okay - Last puzzle is just random. Why is it there?

Difficult but fun room.

It's ok but would agree one of the last puzzles is too random, ambiguous and difficult.

We were very disappointed by Classified which is meant to be the prequel to Sabotage, so had low expectations when attempting Sabotage with a new crew but were surprised by some of the puzzles that brought laughter and excitement. One of the last puzzles of the room was on the edge of being too difficult or too random, so this one brought a bit of frustration but overall a good evening with one big surprise that we all enjoyed.