Exciting Escapes Croydon: Breaking The Law

By | July 26, 2023

by Exciting Escapes Croydon (website)

Grants Entertainment Centre, 12 Middle Street, CR0 1RE

Croydon

2-5 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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It’s 1977, and a corrupt police officer is providing foreign powers with out secrets. Can you break into the Police Station and retrieve them, before he returns?
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Elisha Horsepool host experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 39 mins 22 secs Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverintensequite difficult
2For1 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 3 Nov 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:54 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverstory-driven
SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 24 Aug 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersivestory-driven
BubbleAndSqueak expert rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 12 Nov 2017 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:36 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclever

So many cool, well-thought-out puzzles, presented in a wide variety of ways with some really fun mini-game style solutions.

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 9/10

DoctorPB experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Alwaysablast experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 4 Feb 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 44 Outcome: Successful escape!
original
This was definitely a fun room and nice to have more than one challenge to meet to actually escape. That said, I think it's an older room and a couple of the puzzles possibly felt slightly "left behind" in the escape room world BUT that isn't to say don't play it, because we still had fun!!
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Billa Babybel experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 28 Dec 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
Stevie Davies expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: September 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45m
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Each game at Exciting Escapes is set in, and themed for, a specific decade, and Breaking The Law is their 70s game. While that's an era sometimes remembered for cheerless economic depression, I found this game to be joyously fun and my personal favourite of the three at the venue.

The aim of the game is to find a briefcase of evidence locked in the office of a corrupt detective. Some aspects of the game I'll have to skirt around for spoiler reasons, but a central challenge described in the pre-...

Probably the best of the three games at Exciting Escapes. Solid puzzles with a strong physical element, a real sense of progress during the game and a thrilling finale added up to a highly enjoyable experience.

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