Clued Up! Escape Rooms Norwich: Nuclear Countdown

By | September 29, 2019

by Clued Up! Escape Rooms Norwich (website)

64-66 Prince of Wales Road, NR1 1LT

Norwich

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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It’s the 1960’s and the height of the Cold War. You are Special Agent Delta of British Intelligence and there is an imminent nuclear threat to the world! Your mission is to stop the missile by solving all our puzzles and save the world! Nuclear Countdown is a highly challenging logic based game and due to the puzzle dynamics and complexity we recommend a party size of 4+. We always welcome our younger guests, however this game may be less suitable for younger children.
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notanotherrobot rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 56
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Brilliant room and we escaped as a team of two. A really immersive story and quite a few original puzzles, great host (Andy), great venue

Anonymous expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5

If you are fine with having solid puzzles with not much to look at in the set, you’ll enjoy this game.  We were very entertained for the whole hour!

stairs expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 6 Oct 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 00:40:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Nuclear Countdown is the oldest of the escape rooms at CluedUp's Norwich location, and we played it having already enjoyed the others. It's fair to say that it's perhaps not as impressive as their other rooms; it takes place in a single, medium-sized room, and the decor is functional, but fairly plain. There is a section of the game that must be navigated by flashlight, but fortunately this does not continue for the whole game. The locks are mostly numeric, alpha, or directional combo locks, and the puzzles are fairly code and cipher-heavy. There's no Hollywood-style flashy moments.

That said, even though it might not have been considered state-of-the-art or stand out "wow!", there is still plenty to commend about this game:

- although there was only limited tech involved, what tech there was all worked flawlessly.

- the puzzles themselves were solid, and in-keeping with the theme: chemical formulas, locations of missile sites, access codes, that sort of thing. There was not a single puzzle that we felt was unfair, misleading, or out-of-place.

- Our GM was attentive and gave just the right level of nudge when needed

- There was some suitable background ambience music track which helped set the mood

- The room, lobby area, and entire building were well-sanitised, there was fresh air and hand sanitiser available throughout, and staff wore masks (as did we in those areas, but we removed them in the room itself)

So, all in all, still a very solid room, but if you only play one room in this location I'd probably recommend trying their Bank Heist or Prison Breakout rooms first.

Reviews by escape room review sites

Nuclear Countdown is a good game. It’s got an escape rate of around 40% currently and Clued Up! rate it as a 4/5 difficulty. Run by a team of escaper enthusiasts who want to create a great game it's certainly worth a visit if you are over in Norwich looking for a game to play. 

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