by Break Escape Nottingham (website)
107 Upper Parliament Street
2-8 players
Languages: EN
60 or 90 mins🐶❄️
You’ve been sent on a mission by the Big Boss: break into the bank vault, grab as much loot as you can and make your exit before you get caught! Make sure you remember to steal the precious diamond, otherwise the Boss will not be happy. Security is tight, so you’ve got lasers to dodge and plenty of locks to decipher.
You’ve got 90 minutes, steal as much as you can!
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We did the 60minute version of this room.
Break Escape rooms are always good, and this one was no exception. There are a LOT of puzzles here, and I loved that you could do as many as you liked without losing time on the main objective. This is definitely a room for 4 or more people. The level of clue-ing was very helpful, and I liked that our host Oleg afterwards showed us the two remaining puzzles we didn't get during the time. The way of "collecting" our swag was very helpful too, much easier than carrying loads of stuff around. Would highly recommend.
An epic room of huge proportions- lots of very creative puzzles. Loved the very clever central room interface. For smaller teams I would definitely recommend the 90mins- theres just so much to do!!
Did the 90 min version as a team of 2. Lots of puzzles, it was great.
Absolutely fantastic room, having done a couple of other ones at this site I can confidently say this was the most fun. The open ended structure allowed for great teamwork and individual puzzle solving, and the use of tools was a fun change. Just a shame that the Cryptology site was bought by Break Escape and the advertising has started rolling out generative AI art, which comes across as very lazy and cheap.
Lots and lots to do defo recommend doing 90 minutes as 60 feels so rushed and felt given so many clues when we didn’t want them which made us constantly feel behind. Given so much information at the start which slightly confused us with what to do more so but a very good experiences with so many different puzzles and things to do just wish did 90 minutes version so could do more things together and experience it all but highly recommend
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Nottingham is full of rooms that are beloved by enthusiasts, and Daylight Robbery has become one of the most frequently and warmly recommended of those. In a way it’s an evolution of what Cryptology did with Dreamscape, in that both are score-based games with plenty of parallel play that suits larger groups; but Daylight Robbery takes those characteristics and turns them up to the max.
That might not be instantly obvious - the game doesn’t plunge you into the mayhem immediately. But although it...
This was a fantastic room, the action was non-stop, frantic and fun. This is not your typical linear escape room - this is PUZZLEMANIA! Our GM Mark, who is also a co-owner, was in character, and really seemed to enjoy his role and giving the briefings and hints.
The room allows you to split up and work on different strengths, but also to team up into smaller groups or pairs to collaborate on puzzles.
We certainly got our steps in this room - and whilst the space is open and bright, there are some doorways where you can clash, so just be mindful while you run about!
This room will delight puzzle fans, those who love combination locks, fans of Heist movies such as Ocean’s 11, and those who have always wanted to go on a crime spree but would never want to break the law 🙂
After the game, Mark was happy to fill us in on any missed puzzles and the amazing hidden secret - so much so that we were still in the room long past when we were due to leave! We came out as the 4th “richest” of all groups to have taken on the heist, and the top spot for a group of three, with £1,773,009.19 worth of loot (98% of all available items) - so we were absolutely thrilled. I wanted to go back in and do it all again!!
There are SO many puzzles, locks, tasks and fun things in this room that even in a group of 8, all will get a chance to solve something. The technology behind some of them I had not seen before - and there is such variety in the room that I think even if you did revisit the room you could find puzzles you hadn’t solved the last time, and take those on between you.
I do hope they make another game like this one - however for the sake of the sanity of whoever has to reset all the items we displaced - they may have other ideas!
Cryptology are always great at creating a really immersive, authentic space for their rooms, but Daylight Robbery is SOMETHING ELSE! The Nottingham Cryptology HQ is in an old bank and so the brilliance of Daylight Robbery is that this bank heist takes place in an ACTUAL BANK VAULT.
Daylight Robbery can only be described as an hour of chaotic puzzle solving and it was just so much fun, if a little stressful at times. Read more in our review!
Quite simply one of the best escape rooms we have ever played. Enjoyable from start to finish and a must play game for enthusiasts and beginners alike. Superb!
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