by Exciting Escapes Croydon (website)
Grants Entertainment Centre, 12 Middle Street, CR0 1RE
3-7 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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Loved the decor and music association but nothing too much after that. Puzzles felt very disjointed and a lot of just spotting this and that without any coherent narrative. Nothing really to solve, just things that "you need to have spotted". Ended up being handheld to solve the room which is never fun. Felt like a missed opportunity to lean more heavily onto the music but it was too shy to put people off who didn't know the music.
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It’s a challenging room, but it’s nothing insurmountable and instead, incredibly satisfying when you finally crack the codes and figure out what to do. More than anything I just enjoyed being in the physical space. Bopping along to the 90s hits we had a great rhythm in this room and a very fun interaction with our Games Master afterwards. So much so, we immediately booked another room to play directly after.
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Something unusual about Exciting Escapes as a venue was that, although all my team liked all three of their rooms, we were very split on which we liked best. Each is designed around a particular decade, and has a different feel to it: the 50s game had a subt...
