Lakes Escapes: Casino Heist

Stanley Street, CA14 2JD

2-7 players

60 minutes

Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details

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You have been selected from the best code breakers and diamond thieves in the country. A notorious criminal gang, The Barco Syndicate, have summoned you for the biggest heist of your lives. Putting your reputation on the line as the best team for the job, you are to enter an underground casino, where the famous Shadow Diamonds are held in the vault. The problem is you only have 60 minutes to pull off this job as the casino is opening soon and the staff will be arriving. But, there is a twist, you have the opportunity to take a further 9 million dollars in cold hard cash if you have the time and the nerve. Can you take the full 30 million dollar haul?

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stairs expert rated this:

Played: 2 Aug 2024 Team size: 8 Time taken: 01:00:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hostingfamily friendlyquite difficult

We played Casino Heist immediately after Diamond Mine in the same location, and would happily recommend them both. The Casino Heist scenario starts off with a brilliant set piece, and then settles into a typical escape room format. There's lots of content - our team of eight players of mixed experience levels were kept busy throughout the whole hour, and only just secured the final loot within the last few minutes, so would definitely recommend this as suitable for larger groups.

There's no single stand-out moments, but a solid mix of observation, deduction, assembly and physical manipulation puzzles thoughout.

Excellent, attentive hosting by the GMs delivered a few clues to nudge us along when we requested, and happy to chat afterwards.

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TheCLAMS expert rated this:

Played: 26 Jun 2023 Team size: 6 Time taken: ~62mins Outcome: Failed 🙁

very difficult

The first part of this room is just pure fun. After that, we were so stressed 😂 This room is quite hard. There is a physical puzzle which is quite difficult and took us ~10 mins to complete which really threw us off. I'd still recommend this room, just be prepared for a challenge.

The fact that Molly Minerva managed to successfully escape in a team of 2 is actually unbelievable and her team must be a force to be reckoned with!

Jen Wells (Get Wells Soon) expert rated this:

Played: 6 May 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hostingintensequite difficult

This one seems to divide opinion somewhat and I can see why: there's an elevated level of challenge in here that makes it a tricky room, particularly if tackling it as a two and I can see how it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.

The start of this game is superb - it really adds to the immersion and is such a novel way to kick off a heist. Once in the casino, this is a game where subtle details count and we missed a few things because they were quite leftfield. Saying that, the 'a-ha!' moments were therefore all the more satisfying!

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abooth expert rated this:

Played: 6 May 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57 Outcome: Successful escape!

Amazing game - very difficult but we relish that these days. The start is absolutely brilliant!

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:

Played: 19 Oct 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁

immersivegreat hostingquite difficult

Byromodon experienced rated this:

Played: 7 Oct 2021 Team size: 6 Outcome: Successful escape!

value for moneyquite difficult

Interesting beginning and mechanics. Theming could be better as feels like a room with casino things stuck on the wall rather than a proper casino

Anonymous rated this:

i loved it

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