by Escape Hunt Lakeside (website)
Lakeside shopping centre Unit 2-5, THURROCK RM20 2ZP
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
You’ve struck gold but word got out and now the vultures are circling.
Step into the Wild West, where the tiny frontier town of East Victoria is celebrating the discovery of gold.
But the celebrations turn sour when news arrives that the bloodthirsty Bill French Gang are on their way to claim the gold – and kill everyone in East Victoria for good measure!
With no sheriff around and no cavalry riding to the rescue your only hope is a rusty old locomotive that hasn’t worked in years – but with just one hour to get it going and escape with your lives, you need to think fast and work even faster.
There isn’t a second to lose.Overall rating
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The magnet to the main door to the game wasn’t working so was left open throughout with the noise of the bar underneath being quite off putting. Some of the tech and props were broken with us spending a lot of time on one large looking puzzle struggling to work it out only to find out when asking the GM afterwards it was broken some time ago. We would have preferred to have been told. Another prop required wasn’t working and when asking the GM during the game we had no response. The final puzzle had three broken parts to it. Very disappointing
We had a few mishaps with the room with a puzzle not reset and elements that once complete weren't activating. The theme and set are good but didn't transition that well between rooms. Not a room I would recommend
Disappointing room, a couple of puzzles hadn't been reset properly, some had to be over ridden by the game master and some just didn't make any sense or flow at all.
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Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt's Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty frontier town (incongruously but conveniently already formed into bars), you now need to make a quick exit by train before the local gangsters arrive to take it all from you.
That premise is used for an unusual scoring system. You need to find as many...
Escape Hunt, Oxford impressed us with one of our favourite games to date. Since playing ‘Escape the Wild West’ we’ve been and played all the other rooms at Escape Hunt, Oxford
See also
- Escape Hunt Oxford: Escape The Wild West (Oxford)
- Escape Hunt Manchester: Escape The Wild West (Manchester)
- Escape Hunt Reading: Escape The Wild West (Reading)
- Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Escape The Wild West (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Hunt Liverpool: Escape The Wild West (Liverpool)
- Escape Hunt Watford: Escape The Wild West (Watford)
- Escape Hunt Kingston: Escape The Wild West (Kingston upon Thames)
- Escape Hunt Birmingham: Escape The Wild West (Birmingham)
- Escape Hunt Norwich: Escape The Wild West (Norwich)
- Escape Hunt Bournemouth: Escape The Wild West (Bournemouth)
- Escape Hunt London Oxford Street: Escape The Wild West (Central London)
- Escape Hunt Milton Keynes: Escape the Wild West (Milton Keynes)