The Escaporium: A Christmas Advent-ure

By | November 30, 2019

by The Escaporium (website)

Ground Floor, Berwick St Mills, 23 Square Rd, HX1 1QG

Halifax

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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Overall rating

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 17 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

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Player reviews

Jordan Brown experienced rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 24 Feb 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 4630 PUDs Outcome: Successful escape!
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Adam Bravery expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 12 Nov 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 5160 PUDs Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverfamily friendlyintense

Such a neat concept makes this a great room for enthusiasts while also appealing to family / novice groups. Kept us engaged throughout and despite being quite linear, we all had good time and would tackle bonus puzzles while the others attacked the primary puzzle. Set is good and puzzles are a lot of fun to solve - only a well hidden bit of searching kept us from the maximum score. Really enjoyable game, highly recommended

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Sabrina (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 16 Apr 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 59:29 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 16 Apr 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 5230 Puds Outcome: Successful escape!
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🤘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
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Jess_keds expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlyintense

A lovely Christmas room. There’s so much to get through so keeps a good intense pressure as a two. We managed to get everything with 20ish seconds remaining so a strong pace is needed throughout! The puzzles are easy but as there’s so much to do, you still feel challenged. 

matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 23 Sep 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlyfun
arandzom experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyfunnyfamily friendly
hologramtale rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
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MaliceInWonderland rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveintensemagicalquite difficult
A collection room rather than an escape room, but the theming is on point and there's so much to do! Really great nonstop fun! 
lilyw rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 5
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🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 13 Jan 2024 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Christmas games have become more and more a part of the Escape Room universe, whilst each game is different, they all tend to have similar parts.  Christmas trees, silly hats, presents, crackers, tinsel, etc.  This is a very linear room where you move between 24 puzzles (advent!) with each puzzle giving you hints how to solve the next one.  This is a very fun room that will leave you with a smile on your face when you leave.
🔐SpontaneousIllusion expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
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Such a fun game! The only kicker was how close we were to finishing! Such a feel good game! 
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: January 2024
originalfamily friendlychristmas
Great advent calendar themed room, great concept.
A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 19 Dec 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfamily friendlyquite difficult
Jen Wells (Get Wells Soon) expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 5230 puds! Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingfamily friendly

A really different set up here, as the aim is to score points rather than escape. It's not the biggest game but the puzzles are so on-theme, so quirky and there is just so much in here that we found the time flying by! It is designed so that you can do this with children and not get too hung up of whether you escape or not, which makes it really accessible as a fun Christmas trip out. It's also got enough challenge for keen escape room-ers! We really rated this one.

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Having been opened for 2021’s festive season, Christmas Advent-ure was long closed by mid spring when I got to Halifax, but the owners kindly allowed us to play it anyhow, since it hadn’t yet been torn down. I’m not sure whether it’ll be available again next Christmas, so this review may be purely for retrospective interest.

This is a score-based game. Your goal is to gather small wooden tokens called PUDs, which you then feed into a collector that gathers them off in a rather satisfying manner...

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