GR8escape York: Return from Wonderland

Really enjoyed this one. A lot more difficult than others and we enjoyed the challenge as it's more about will you get out than everyone gets out anyway 

A beautiful set and a lovely host, I believe, called Jerry. Spoke to her for a while and clearly love is put into these rooms. Felt like a good amount of puzzles for the time, with some challenges and had non-linear aspects for bigger teams. But there were a lot of red herrings in this room so hard to understand what was relevant and clues were sometimes too cryptic. Overall a fun room though.

Very poorly decorated room with LOTS of red herrings and some illogical puzzles. Looks and feels like a DIY escape room you could make at home.

One puzzle didn't work - we placed the correct piece but the RFID tag didn't trigger so we had to keep jiggling things around to get it to trigger.

Very poor game master (an older woman) - with only 5 mins left, she kept giving us clues to puzzles we'd already solved!! When asked about it afterwards, she said we'd "skipped" some parts and she felt like we should've gone back to solve them instead of escaping. WOW!

The only room we've ever done where the game master is actively trying to get us to NOT escape, but we managed it anyway - her face when she was begrudgingly forced to take our photo afterwards was priceless!

Please don't go here.

We didn't have a good experience with Gr8 Escape. Our GM was inactive for the first half of the room, and despite waving multiple times, we received no hints. The room itself is also poorly maintained - a lot of necessary writing has been rubbed off the walls, which leads to a lot of guesswork for the puzzles. The puzzles themselves are also quite illogical, and once one thing is solved, it's hard to figure out what the next step is. I would not recommend this room!

A lot of effort has been put into the decor of this game. It’s looking a bit worn in places, but you can still see the effort that’s been put in. 

The puzzles are ok. Some are original. The issue really with the room is it didn’t really flow overall well. Some puzzles are a bit of a jump in logic or there is no obvious reason to know at least where you should be looking. You just have to stumble across the correct puzzle. 

As the game progresses, the sign posting gets a bit better, so the flow gets better, but still some jumps in logic are required.

The hosting was ok.

Worth playing if you are in York ,looking for something to do. 

Is it worth travelling specifically for this : No.

Nice family friendly room. We didn't have the most enthusiastic host, but still enjoyed ourselves. 

2nd on leaderboard