Embark on a spellbinding adventure in Paradox Parlour's brand new game, Enchanted Relic: Wizard's Enigma. Trapped between worlds, Maxwell Mysterium needs your help to find the elusive Elixir and return him to his rightful realm. Gather your team, sharpen your wits, and prepare for a mesmerising journey into the unknown!
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This is a good fun room. So much of a step up from their other rooms in terms of set design and quality. Really enjoyed it. Worked well with a group of 3 of us. Good variety of puzzles and a really decent size space used as well. Thanks!
Played: 16 May 2026Team size: 2Time taken: 56Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfamily friendlyfun
Great overall room with some different and unique puzzle which was great
Rooms looked really good
(Tons of padlocks) nearly everything was padlock basic which I did not mind as there are symbols by each padlock so you know which number goes to the right lock
Played: 28 Jan 2026Team size: 2Time taken: 66Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting
Really enjoyed this room as an experienced 2. No big wow or surprise moments. Great hosting from Joe and puzzles were a mix of logical or puzzles. Very much non linear as the first room as 5 or 6 solved and the second main room has probably 5 or 6 non linear and 4 others. Theming is good but not amazing. It is a traditional padlock room overall we really enjoyed it. Puzzles were mostly at a moderate fun level not too easy not too hard. Neither of us have great eyesight in dim lighting so we struggled a little with locks, a colour based puzzle and there is a puzzle where something is hidden in plain sight even with a very very direct clue we struggled to see it because of our slightly older eyes and even after the clues only one of us could see it.
Played: 20 Feb 2025Team size: 4Time taken: 53.19Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-driven
There is A LOT to do in this room! Another Paradox room with 2 objectives so that beginners feel they have been successful if they just get the first. This was very non-linear so plenty for larger team sizes to do.
This room is padlock heavy but good signposting helps to know which lock to use. Some very original puzzles in the room too, which we hadn't seen before in 90 rooms. Plenty for our 8 and 10 year olds to do too.
Played: 8 Feb 2025Team size: 2Time taken: 49:53Outcome: Successful escape!
originalmagicalquite easy
Really enjoyed this one - good theming and some great puzzles. They can be a little easy but there’s a fair amount to get through to compensate. Some good variety in there as well, and they link well into the theme of the room. Story telling was a little light though, especially in the last part - feels like somthing was missing there. And I will continually bang the sound design drum on these reviews - get that music turned up! Quality of puzzles makes up for most of these little niggles.
We really enjoyed this room. It was quite padlock-heavy, but it didn't feel overbearing, and the puzzles to get the padlock codes were incredibly varied. Some very nice logic puzzles in this room, as well as a cool colour-based feature (be wary if you're colour blind, my husband found it a little trickier but not impossible).
It’s clear to see the step up in design and puzzle quality as the team have built up their experience over the years. The set looks incredible and has many ooh moments throughout. The puzzles are incredibly varied and gave some satisfying ahhh moments throughout. Easily my favourite of the two branches that Paradox Parlours have!
Played: 1 May 2024Team size: 3Time taken: 61Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulmagicalquite difficult
A nice room, apparently very new. Good story, good theming and set. My only criticism is there are an awful lot of padlocks, probably more than any other room I have done, and after stooping down to enter a code into a tiny little lock for the 10th time, it does wear a little thin. It would have been nice if there was a bit more automated electronic unlocking of things, and a few less padlocks.
That said, the puzzles were great and the clue delivery system was really cool and very in keeping with the theme. Some nice surprised and magical moments.
Easily in my top 5 rooms.None of the puzzles were particularly hard, but there were loads of them - great fun as a team of two as we both got to do lots!The room is put together really well. This is by far Paradox Parlours' best room.Our host was absolutely fantastic! I wish I hadn't forgotten his name, because that guy deserves a bonus! When he saw that we'd selected "enthusiasts" as our reason for doing the room, he had checked with the host that ran our last to see how we did. Seeing that we had done pretty well, he made sure to set the puzzles to be harder than they are as standard - how's that for going the extra mile in the name of extra service?!All in all, excellent experience. Would strongly recommend.
Played: 3 Feb 2024Team size: 6Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverfamily friendlyquite difficult
We played this game before the public opening, so there are small elements that might have been refined since we played but...wow!! Our whole team loved this game. It was jam packed full of puzzles and kept us really busy. Some unusual puzzles and great theming.
Played: 3 Mar 2024Team size: 4Time taken: 53.00Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverepicquite difficult
Fantastic game, joy and puzzles round every corner (and there were a lot of corners!). So many things to solve and not completely linear. We are an experienced team and we completed it as a 4 with no clues. It’s really well structured that you could break into pairs or work as group or go off solo. Puzzles were tricky but all could be solved with a bit of logic - so it was very satisfying. It’s nice to do a game that doesn’t have tenuous links between things. There were quite a few padlocks which we enjoyed and they helped you work through knowing what needed to be done. It really did combine the best elements of so many escape room puzzles. Not too techy and no countdown clock. An absolute gem for Woking!
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