Escape Hunt Basingstoke: Alice in Puzzleland

By | October 25, 2020

by Escape Hunt Basingstoke (website)

14B Festival Place, RG21 7BA

Basingstoke

2-6 players

60 minutes

Step into Wonderland, where the Hatter has been accused of stealing the Queen’s Tarts. With Alice nowhere to be seen, it’s time for you to fill her shoes.
You find yourself at the Hatter’s cottage. The table is set but no one is around.
A sign on the lawn reads ‘Tea Party Cancelled by Royal Decree’. Curiouser and curiouser…
Find and return the Queen’s Tarts in 60 minutes, or it’s off with the Hatter’s head. Chop chop.
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based on ratings from 65 users
combined with 4 pro reviews

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SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 21 Jul 2024 Time taken: 58 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
magicalillogicalbroken tech
Stevie Davies expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: September 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 29m 34s
family friendlyvery easy
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Played: 8 Aug 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 41:20
broken techoverpricedunoriginalvery easy

Basically just a ripoff of the old Time Trap game with similar theming, but done so much worse. 

phudson2907 rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 47 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersive
Alwaysablast rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 7 Jul 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 43.47 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenbroken techoverpriced

This should have been a really good room, as it has potential, however a lot of the tech was either totally broken or flawed. A lot of time was wasted thinking a solution was wrong when actually it just hadn't triggered what it should and we ended up having to explain solutions to the GM over the tannoy so they could manually override catches when we did have the solution right, or just having to fiddle with putting the same thing into a the same place multiple times to get it to trigger. Real shame.

spbc expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 26 Oct 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfunneeding tlc
2For1 experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 30 Aug 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 38:10 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivenbroken tech
Fun family room, we took our 12 year old, she loved it, good room for beginners. 
A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Cat.P rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: Feb 22 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulmagical
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Whilst Alice in Puzzleland is available to play at multiple sites across the UK, we chose the closest to London: Reading. During our experience there, we were led by the Cheshire Cat (played by the awesome Games Master Hamish) through the rabbit hole and into the magical world of Wonderland.


Our GM declared we were the best team he had ever seen play this game. But actually...

Overall, a really good game with some lovely game play and well designed props. Escape Hunt Resorts World is based in the middle of a shopping centre which felt very unusual but means there are lots of people and passing trade.
We headed down to Puzzleland via Oxford to help save the Mad Hatter from Execution! Sinister stuff! See if we managed to find the Queen’s Tarts and what we thought about our Alice in Wonderland themed experience.

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