by ClueCapers Limited (website)
Upper Floors, 1 The Broadway, SO23 9BE
2-6 players
Languages: EN
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Percy’s Paradox boldly takes the indoor escape room experience to the outdoors. Teams will have to rely on keen puzzle-solving and observational skills to succeed and ultimately complete a mission whose story is uniquely tied up with that of ClueCapers’ portal-making professor, Buff Hoon-Smith.
Where other outdoor activities might rely on an app or print-out to guide you, Percy’s Paradox instead gives you curious objects encased in our unique 3D-printed ‘time capsule!’. Inside are literally layers of puzzles and mechanics for you to explore and solve but indeed, it is the combination of this and the very world around you that will provide the answers to uncover the next layer of the capsule and delve deeper into the story of your mission and the history of Winchester!
This is a BIG game – our longest ever adventure with up to three hours to complete it – wear comfy shoes and bring snacks!
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You carry all the puzzles with you in a very clever device. I've done a couple of other outdoor games that have relied on sending messages at various points with further clues, but this one is much more imaginative than that. You could do this fully self-sufficiently without resorting to mobile devices at all, but WhatsApp help is available and the couple of hints we got were just the right amount of nudge in the right direction without giving too much away.
We dawdled a bit to start with, tried to over-complicate a couple of the clues and got a bit stuck in the middle when we went down the wrong track (metaphorically, not literally), so we could've been a bit faster, but it is still quite long though - time-wise, not distance. I'm glad we didn't take our 9 year-old. He enjoys an hour long escape room, but I think he would've struggled with endurance/attention span on this one. You can pause your time for breaks via WhatsApp and our lunch break in the middle definitely helped.
Overall, I'd say this is a great attempt at taking the escape room experience into an outside setting and would recommend it to anyone with half a day to spare.