Trapp’d Chester House: Spellbound: The Witches of Chester House

By | September 27, 2023

by Trapp'd Chester House (website)

Irchester, Wellingborough NN8 2DH

Wellingborough

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

In a time when the local villagers were convinced that witches held sway over these woods, stories of possession, hauntings, and madness ran rampant. Now, it is widely believed that the spirits of those cursed souls still linger in this forest. Among them, the infamous Marjorie Sutton stands out, said to appear at the stroke of midnight, in her long-abandoned home nestled deep within the woods.

Though you’ve always been sceptical of superstitions, Marjorie’s tale has piqued your curiosity, and an unshakable feeling draws you toward uncovering the mysteries of Chester House and its witches. Before you know it, you and your friends are on a journey to spend a night in the very cabin that was once Marjorie’s abode.

As the night descends, you quickly realise that the age-old legends hold an element of truth, and you too have fallen under their spell. With a mere 60 minutes until the witching hour reaches its peak, your mission is clear: locate and destroy the accursed book, escape the cabin, and never look back, lest your soul becomes ensnared, and you find yourself forever TRAPP’D within the cursed forest!

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Anonymous rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 21 Apr 2024 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlyplainquite easy
vickib93 rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 25 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingfamily friendly

We did this one after their new one and it was a good room but again not many locks and everything was more magnets and having to do stuff for things to open, we personally like the idea of many locks to open but we still enjoyed it and was good fun. With the other reviews the room is quite large and there could have been more added to the room. 

🔐SpontaneousIllusion expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2

Game play was sparse , but what was there we enjoyed. Also very run down like their other games. 

MartinStrong76 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersive😨creepy

We really enjoyed this one!  A little run down, and a couple of tech issues during the game, but they were forgivable as the game had charm and a good amount of things we hadn't seen before. The space as huge, and probably could have been used a bit more, but still a good game though!

Mighty Oaks experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 22 Aug 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:07 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
TheSinger expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 3
originalbroken tech😨creepy

A rather original theme here but somewhat poorly executed. The space is huge and with the amount of space to hand, there felt like there was a complete lack of things to do. Broken tech (ish)… what I mean the room is tired, and need fixing in places as things had been pulled away and clearly broken. 

There was also quite a fun little of puzzle that required digging/searching however the cloud of dust this creates was unbearable. 

The room is creepy in places but nothing to write home about, could have been such a better experience. 

Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersive

Uncommon themed rooms which I liked. Not keen on the location. Okay hosting, but they are clearly running multiple games at once which I'm not a fan of. There are a lot of magnetic/electronic puzzles which I do like. Some new puzzles I haven't seen before. We hit a wall though and wasted a lot of time at one point. Not my favourite room but it was different!

flyingoctopus expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivequite easy😨creepy

This is quite an immersive room set in a large space. It contains a nice variety of puzzles and flows well.

There is quite a lot of unused space at one stage in the game and I just wonder if it would be worth putting some more puzzles in the space to create a more difficult room. 

thehermit experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 13 Feb 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivequite easy

Amazingly themed room and was alot of fun. However, the the space is absolutely huge but is very sparse with puzzles, to the point where it felt like the space was almost a waste, which was a shame.  As well as there being only a few puzzles, this felt very easy for a team of 2 which is supposed to be a hard room. 

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This game was originally Salem in Leeds, but has now reopened under the name of Spellbound. One of the GATAPAE team played recently and the game is, as far as we could ascertain, the same as the Leeds game.
Salem is a brand new Trapp’d game. Even if we hadn’t already played both the other two rooms in the Leeds venue in their original locations, we would have picked to play Salem purely for the strong Blair Witch meets Sleepy Hollow vibe.

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