Clue Cracker: Temple Quest

By | September 30, 2020

by Clue Cracker (website)

68 St John's Road, TN4 9PE

Tunbridge Wells

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

Legend has it, that in the heart of the Aztec Jungle, there stands a hidden Temple – home of the Golden Monkey statue.

Do you have the tribal instinct required to decipher the cryptic clues, break into the Temple and discover the hidden mysteries that await?

Escape reality and immerse yourself in a boulder-dashing, jungle-swinging 60 minutes – packed full of mazes, secret passages and cryptic games for everyone to enjoy.

Can you solve the mystery of Temple Quest? Will you find the Golden Monkey and escape in time? Book your exhilarating adventure today!

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Overall rating

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5

based on ratings from 39 users
combined with 5 pro reviews

Your review

Player reviews

madhatter rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 17 Feb 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 46.46 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting
We loved this room! Very reminiscent of jungle run with a bit of crystal maze thrown in! The theming is on point and the hosting fantastic. They’ve got a great team. All well thought out and the game flows. Hosting was just great company and fun and we completed it without the need for any clues. Every one of us really enjoyed it. There’s plenty to do and you don’t have to do most things in a set order
Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 2 Nov 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:46 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersivegreat hosting
matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 11 Aug 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 55:59 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnyimmersive
FranklyOscar experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Mia Rabone experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 11 May 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 56 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersiveepic

LOVED THIS! It's one of my top 3 UK games. The 'set' is brilliant and there's a brilliant range of puzzles. Thoroughly enjoyed, would highly recommend! 

d.green26 expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivemagical
😺Lianne experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 10 Apr 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57m Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnyimmersive

An absolutely fantastic room from start to finish. It's a great theme - but also brilliantly executed in the room design. Everything felt robust and well-built, and many of the puzzles were unlike others we'd seen before in other rooms. Our GM was fab, and we loved the humorous touches throughout. Definitely tough as an experienced team of two, but a delight as it unfolded - worth the trip!

benny1664 experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivestory-driven

The theming in this room is great and its amazing they built it all themselves.  All the way through this game delivers time and time again.  easily in my top 3 games from the 50 I have done.

Escape Enthusiast expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 15 Jan 2022 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersiveepic

One of the most enjoyable games i've played. It's a very physical game with a lot of exploration which makes you feel like you're a tomb raider. There are some great logic puzzles too, so there's a something for everyone to solve. I would easily recommend this room to anyone. It's bound to impress anyone who gives it a go. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting

A fantastic game by a wonderful company. Set dressing is immaculate, puzzles feel strong, well built and fun to complete. Hosting was excellent. Can't wait to see and play the other games!

PurpleB expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersive

Amazing set and some interesting concepts.

Sabrina (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 28/11/2021 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnygreat hostingfamily friendly
Easily my favourite room at this venue.  From the hilarious startup video and all the way through the game, humour plays a big part of this game.  Room is well themed and contains an intense series of quite varied puzzles to achieve your goal, you may fail but you will have had fun doing so!
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
funnyfamily friendlyepic

This adventure was so much fun, its a fabulous build, with a high standard of production and excellent attention to detail, but what elevates it to a must play is the excellent comedic moments in there. The laugh out loud moments start in the briefing and there's lots of banter opportunities with Boris your helper in the temple.

Combine this with a great variety of puzzles, and a rather fun transition, and you've got a wonderful adventure that's a great play for both families and enthusiasts. My favourite room at Clue Cracker. 

Ronnie Meade experienced rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 7 Aug 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnyimmersivegreat hosting

What a brilliant escape room company Clue Cracker are, 3 top rooms and funny, engaging staff! 

Temple Quest is definitely the pick of the bunch with immersive decor, tongue in cheek laughs and something for everyone in terms of puzzles... Physical and logic. The gamesmaster made our experience with his cheeky monkey one liners throughout.

Nichola Morrison experienced rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
funnycleverimmersive

Loved this game, host was brilliant really made it funny. Lots of physical challenges which I love and a few puzzles that force you to work as team. Loved it,  make sure you wear suitable footwear you'll be running around in sand. 

Spanishfleas experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 23 Sep 2021 Team size: 5
cleverimmersivemagical
Robin Harris & Michael Bailey experienced rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 4 Aug 2021 Team size: 3 Time taken: 53 minutes 13 seconds Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivefamily friendly
imrahil experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveintensequite difficult
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 1 Sep 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 42:09 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingepic
Peter Hoare rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 29 Nov 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 73 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnygreat hostingquite difficult

A difficult room to do with two people, a lot to do, lots of areas and lots of puzzles that all need to be completed at some point or another (not necessarily in a particular order). The room is very well looked after, everything works and the theming is all in perfect condition. There is some amazing projection and interactive technology too. 

The thing that really makes this though is the hosting, there is a a character that guides you through, voiced very well by the GM, and if you want, you can more or less have back and forth conversations with this character which was really fun. 


browngate experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
pipityk rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
GB rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 60 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivefamily friendlyepic
Barry Hammond expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 21/08/2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58.11 Outcome: Successful escape!
Ratchel experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
HazelChester rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Mrs G experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Adam Bravery expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 12 Jul 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 31:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnyepicquite easy

Truly a brilliant escape room, and so much fun to play. All the puzzles are just amazingly well executed and really enjoyable to solve. The build is fantastic and the interaction with the GM makes for a very immersive experience. Some cool mechanics throughout keep things interesting and an intense finale end the game in style. Unmissable!

🌵Juliette B expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 26 Nov 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:59 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnyimmersive

Another temple, another cursed statue... 

Game plays with a very silly sense of humour and takes you through a nice progression. Plenty of puzzles to do throughout. Fine timewise as a 2 in terms of completion, but might be better as 3+ due to a split experience which falls into the nothing to do vs something to do category until the activity is completed (not hard but would be much quicker with 2 of you - and had some unfortunate confusion due to a non-reset padlock; however GM managed this well). Well hosted and thought it was an excellent game overall.  

Speedy Sloth expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
originalgreat hostingepic
Jen Wells (Get Wells Soon) expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 2 Jun 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnyimmersive

Hilarious and challenging in equal measure, this is an incredibly immersive game that takes the best features of the classic temple game trope and puts a clever spin on them.

It's always a good sign when we're sad to find we're at the end! 

StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 7 May 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 43:54 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techimmersivemagical
Jess_keds expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnyimmersive
EmmaSmiley rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 15 Mar 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivefamily friendly

All hands on unique puzzles fitting with the theme. Loved the satchel to coolect the loot made it feel like you were raiding the temple. This room is easier than their diamond dog and I would say very family friendly.

Dave Howarth rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 17/02/2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 46
beautifulfunnyimmersive

Brilliant time getting out of Temple Quest today. Lovely mix of games - physical, codes and teamwork. The decoration is great and the staff are wonderful - thanks to Zack for making us feel so welcome and playing along with my birthday surprise… 

abooth expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 5 Aug 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 55:32 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnyimmersivegreat hosting

Jungle Run meets Crystal Maze meets soo many other awesome adventure shows and movies. Lots of ground to cover in this room with plenty of physical puzzles to get occupied- most immersive intro to a game we’ve ever had and our host Dawn was superb!

Reviews by escape room review sites

On a day of playing several very strong games, I had particular hopes for Temple Quest, the newest (at time of writing) game from Clue Cracker, having noticed the way it's quietly climbed into the top bracket of the UK rankings; and was delighted to find that it thoroughly deserves its reputation.

In this game you're on the trail of a missing explorer, and more importantly the Golden Monkey treasure he was searching for. Which is to say, it has a whole lot of Indiana Jones vibes with extra monk...

There is no doubt that this room is going into both of our Top 10’s, it was great. Great is the word to describe it, great puzzles, great design, great hosts, great fun!

The most impressive part of Temple Quest was the sense of discovery, accompanied by 360º immersion it was hard to feel like we weren’t in a Temple in the depths of the jungle!

I love a good temple game, and Clue Cracker’s offering is one of the temple-iest around. Think of every kind of cool and thrilling element from the cultural reference points of the genre 

Clue Cracker have really hit the jackpot with Temple Quest. All in all, an awe-inspiring, action-packed, puzzle-packed, atmospheric, humorous adventure which enthusiasts and families alike will be blown away by. Don't monkey around - get booked in to play this game - you will not be disappointed. 

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