Clue HQ Birmingham: The Legend of Miyalock: Forbidden Magic

Arches 20 & 21, Lionel Street, B3 1AG

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

The Legend of Miyalock tells of a treasure hidden deep within a mountain, shrouded in magic and mystery and guarded by the spirit of the dragon – Malaki. Long ago, Malaki sought to destroy this world but a young girl named Miya used her magic to entrap the dragon within the mountain. Thousands of years later, the Collective League of United Explorers (C.L.U.E.) has finally stumbled upon the hiding place of this legendary treasure – but they may have unearthed something much more dangerous. Retrieve Miya’s wand, master the magic of the past and join the fight to defeat Malaki once and for all to claim the treasure of Miyalock for yourselves.

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Anonymous experienced rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 52 Outcome: Successful escape!

magicalpoor hostingoverpriced

This game used a lot of tech and only 2 padlocks. Usually I'd like that but in this game it didn't seem to gel with us. A lot of times we did something and a sound would play but we were unsure what happened, leading to a bit of frustration early on.

The room itself had great set design, with multiple different spaces to explore and nice use of projectors etc. Visually stunning, except they hadn't hidden any wires which is always a disappointment to me because it looks slightly lazy (they were also all within reach so I worry what kids would do if they just yanked them)

Sound effects in the 'main' room were really loud and at times slightly overwhelming when trying to think and figure out answers. The 'pond' wasn't reset sadly so we didn't really have to go inside it to find anything as they were just placed on top. Our host wasn't very enthusiastic and sort of just shoved us in the game.

Overall it was a good room, just didn't gel with us!

NovemberGolf21 expert rated this:

I had a few niggles with this room, one thing I really disliked was the lack of clue screens further into the game, and the time it took to send something through did suck some of the enjoyment out from it, some quirky moments that were certinaly unique, and made for an enjoyable game

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Outcome: Successful escape!

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Played: 14/12/2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 53:18 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Interesting use of AV, I found some thing's a little frustrating, but that was probably just us. We still had good fun, and this was an enjoyable room.

A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Played: 8 Nov 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 40:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

immersivefamily friendlyepic

Lot's of tech, animations, and soo much to do. Kids/Families would absolutly love this room. Was great fun and well worth it.

jakea256 expert rated this:

Great use of video and some lovely quirky moments in this game.

Lise expert rated this:

Played: 31 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 50 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Petrina Deakin rated this:

Played: 19 May 2024 Team size: 5 Time taken: 57.30 Outcome: Successful escape!

hi-techstory-drivenmagicalquite difficult

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The Legend of Miyalock seems to be the shining light in the ClueHQ collection. Admittedly we haven’t played many ClueHQ games, but Miyalock is a cracking game and one that ClueHQ can be proud of. We don’t know what the future holds for The Legend of Miyalock, so get and play it now, before it is possibly lost forever.

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There were rumours that this room was shutting down, but luckily it appears to still be available to play. And long may that continue – make the effort to get here if you’re in Birmingham and in a clue-y mood.

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