by Escape Coalville (website)
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
🐶👶James Murdoch, private Investigator, has been arrested for murder. Having arrived at his office, he discovered a dead body. He doesn’t know the victim and he knows that he didn’t do it.
What he does know is that he has been framed. He has been investigating a high profile case and he believes that the murder was committed in order to put him away and prevent JM from discovering the truth.
Having been arrested it is down to the team of crack investigators to find all of the evidence they need to uncover the real murderer, bring them to justice and free JM before it’s too late. Forensic teams will be returning to the scene of the crime in 60 minutes in order to gather all of the evidence. Evidence that the investigators need to clear JM’s name.
In its original form, this game existed at HintHunt, London. We've given it our own Escape Coalville twist and brought it to Leicestershire. Please be aware that there is an element of crawling for at least one person in the group.
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Good game, good puzzles. Hosting let this one down - everytime we asked for clues we were ignored which meant we failed. If she had helped us at all we would’ve got to see the end of the game.
A bit plain for my liking, and some of the puzzles were a bit tenuous.
It's a room "of its time" and we had fun with it, but our experience was marred by some broken tech that's allegedly an issue known to the venue, a missing item, and something being out of my (safe) reach in a room with a lot of "finding" involved. It could also do with having a quick vacuum, being overrun with dust!
Host was very attentive and knowledgeable about the game.
We enjoyed this game, some really fun bits in here even a cheeky chocolate cookie waiting for our 3 year old which was a really lovely touch. She enjoyed searching around and helping us find clues and we really liked how original this game was.
Trip down memory lane for me having played the original version at HintHunt way back in 2014. Nice to see that the company have made subtle but well received changes to the gameplay whilst keeping the main chunk of the game. Quite search heavy but really fun to find the hiding spots and associated puzzles.
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