Lucardo Manchester: University of Magic: The Entrance Exam

By | March 1, 2021

by Lucardo Manchester (website)

Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD

Up to 6 players

Β£80.00

Languages: EN

πŸ“Ήremote avatar
not on sale

Play Lucardo’s University of Magic remotely from home through Zoom. The Professor will always be on hand to guide your team through the puzzles and codes and may even have a trick or two up their sleeve. We would recommend no more than 6 players as communication with the Professor could become diluted and therefore effect game play and your potential completion.

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Rated between 4 and 5 out of 5

based on ratings from 37 users
combined with 7 pro reviews

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Kelley Wolatz experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 15 May 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulfunnymagical

This was a fun room that is beautiful. It has great theme and the GM was fun! No telescape, so I enjoyed that also. A pixie fairie provides the camera view!

πŸ”James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 18/03/2021 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
When a great Avatar turns a good room into a great room!  Fantastic experience.
Jens (Bruteforce) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 14. Mai 2021
🦑cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5

Wonderfully  charismatic and engaging host/avatar, and great use of the camera pixie to give you a great view of everything. Its a great room to start with, but the addition of the two characters of Prof Rick and Emzie the camera wielding pixie really elevates this adventure as your drawn even further into the narrative. The absence of an inventory is alos really refreshing as you're not diverted from the action. 
A few adaptation to the IRL puzzles actually make gameplay better (in my opinion) as the puzzle that can cause so much frustration (and in my case borderline rage quit!) has been modified and is no longer a time sink.
This is a wonderful family game, and a cracker of a game for introducing new players to the world of online escape rooms. Go play, iits so much fun!

πŸ”SpontaneousIllusion expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Outcome: Failed πŸ™
illogicalbroken techpoor hosting
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 06/11/18
matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 17 Mar 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 55 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverstory-driven

#5

Fantastic quality of puzzles ands set decoration. A very original room,  attention to detail was great and it was loads of fun! The best room out of all of Lucardo’s that we’ve done. Still hovering around our top 10 after 40 rooms.

Alice Lucy rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 13 Aug 2021 Team size: 3 Time taken: 55 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingmagicalthematic

Quite fun and magical feeling, and impressed with the props! Slight downside that I feel like some of the puzzles weren't so challenging and leaned slightly too much towards the looking around for things

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 28/10/2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Really good room by Lucardo. We were hoping to complete this room since we did Dragon's Heart back in 2018.

It really didn't disappoint but we were left a bit lost by the story, we didn't know what the aim of the room was, not sure if we missed it in the introduction video (which had very low volume) so once all the padlocks and doors were opened, we lost a bit of time trying to understand why we were meant to do.

The game master (Emma, I believe) was fantastic. She really is enthusiastic about escape rooms so it made our experience even better as she knew to wait before sending us clues.

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Lucardo has built a reputation in the UK for quality games and had long been on my wish list of places I wanted to visit. They entered the online market in mid-2020 with Gemrunner (which I rated highly for its design and the overall experience). I’ve not had the chance to play Safe House as yet so when the opportunity came up to play the University of Magic I immediately signed on. Along with Prisons, pirates and sci-fi, Magic is one of my go-to themes.

Well deserving of its great reputation University of Magic was a fun, well-decorated room and, while the challenges focus more on observation than hard puzzles, there's still some meat in there to keep you busy.
Due to bad experiences in the past we tend to stay away from magic themed rooms, but this one has restored our faith. Now we need to head to the Lucardo Rawtenstall branch to check out the sequel!
It’s an extremely popular game and we could see why. It’s a beautifully themed and high-quality game with good puzzles excellently tied into the theme.Β 

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