60 Minutes: The Lord of the Rings – Mines of Moria

By | March 20, 2019
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by 60 Minutes (website)

Bucharest

2-6 players

Languages: EN, RO

60 minutes

Rivendell, the Elvish city, remained far behind. Maleficent Saruman pushed you on dangerous roads. Check the breast pocket, to make sure it is safe. Yes, the ring is safe. You still have long way to Mordor, where you will destroy the ring in the fires of Mount Doom…
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combined with 4 pro reviews

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ChrisR rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivequite difficult

This was a cool room with good spacing and nice puzzles. We had a lot of expectations - being huge LOTR fans- and we were not disappointed, but it wasn't the greatest game either. The puzzles are all mechanical, there is little to no thinking involved, which was a bummer, but it is still great fun. The game master was very welcoming and helpful when we needed and the story in the briefing had us very excited but somehow the experience did not live up to it.

It's a cool room to play if you are very into mechanical stuff (and you're good at it), but I think adding some thinking puzzles would make it a truly great one. We took a lot of time trying to solve one particular puzzle and ended up losing close to 15 minutes because of it and it was a bit frustrating.

Overall it's a good experience and it's worth playing, but do not expect it to be easy

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5

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Some themes are a natural fit for the escape room format - such as jailbreak scenarios, or anything where you're trapped in a smallish space. As a tale about an epic continent-spanning journey, Lord of the Rings is a less obvious fit; but 60 Minutes' game is based around the Mines of Moria section of the story. While I thought its success at capturing the feel of its subject material was mixed - it's difficult to include battles with orcs and trolls, after all! - as an escape game it's beautiful...

9.2 / 10
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9.5 / 10
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In 2017 rooms have started to get better here in every aspect. This room is one of those but more than anything it is amazingly decorated. This doesn’t seem like a good fit for an escape room setting (generally in a building with walls) but they have managed to make it look and feel like you actually are in some kind of magic universe. You will encounter moss which we haven’t seen before in an escape room and we think is very cool. We have sadly failed to complete the room so we have not quite been everywhere but we can guarantee it’s great.

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