Compendium Escape Rooms: Turd Raiders and The Lost Golden Plunger

I bought vouchers when they were running a sale and made a cheeky back-to-back booking.

Story

Infiltrate the Turd Burglars’ hideout and steal the Golden Turds and Plunger.

Puzzles

A satisfying selection of challenges that encouraged thinking, searching and teamwork.

Mise en scene

Dingy, grimy, decrepit- but spacious- perfectly fitting for a toilet-themed den!

Final Comments

I think we solved all but 2 of the puzzles and so got a respectable score! In terms of collection-based games, though, UI-55 had the edge.

So happy this was my 300th! Another great room by Compendium. 🙂 

Great room. Original, challenging and funny. Worth a visit! 

Simply great fun. So much to do in the time. A great multi-linear room with loads of puzzles. Would highly recommend. 

The game was great, really brilliant set. Full of stuff to do, all go from start to finish!

Sh*t game.

What a fun game. Loads and loads to do. Some really great puzzles and a really large room. Great family room. Suit larger teams. Great hosting as always. 

This stinks in all the right ways. 

What a game - such fun and amazing hosting by Luke. Would happily play all over again. Sure I missed some details due the frantic nature you approach this room. Must play. 

Love a game that doens't take itself too seriously. We are here to have fun after all. 
Fantastic hosting too. 

This game was a breath of fresh air (ironically). 

This has got to be one of the best rooms for kids in this area. Took two kids and they both really loved it, especially collecting the turds. For us a collection element always works well. We also loved the toilet theme and the fact that they'd tried to do something different within the game with inputting clues and getting keys, which led to a slightly different style collection section at the end. Although It did take us a couple of go's to get used to this system. Alex was a great host and he kept things going, so we never had a lull.  Plus because we finished the game we went home with a special prize each, which I thought was a really nice touch. This place certainly deserves its high rising ranking on this website. It's not a massive space and tight in places, so I wouldn't recommend more than four people. My only criticism is that in places I struggled to see, but that could be a me thing. There is a really nice cafe on the same street, called number 10, which I would definitely recommend. We parked in the Leisure Centre car park, the other side of the railway. 

We have enjoyed various rooms within Compendium over the years, all offering their own unique adventure. Their latest offering did not dissapoint! Very fun game that could be played with various ages. An exciting way of inputting the number codes, directions and words. All topped off with a fantastic finale! Can't wait for their next room to be built!

Turd raiders is an absolutely fantastic game. It can be done with older children if they have help to push them in the right direction to solve the puzzles. The boys definitely loved it and got a lot from it as well as appreciating the toilet humour. They loved collecting the turds and the keys. Alex, thank you for your help. We had an amazing morning!

Another terrific room by the fabulous Compendium Escape Rooms… Turd Raiders is such a fun escape room. Kept us busy for the full hour with clever, well-thought-out puzzles. Great hosting made it even better—highly recommend!

Absolutely incredible from start to finish - real love and craft has been put into this one. Puzzles aplenty so bring a big team and if you beat the record, you might just get a little surprise… Don’t miss this room!

My husband and I did this room at the weekend as the final game of a four escape room weekend. We couldn’t have picked a better room to finish the weekend on. Without giving too much away, the final five minutes of the game ensure that you finish on a real high. We had previously been to Compendium to play UI-55, Zombieland 2 (the Perks of Karen) and Bad Elf. UI-55 in particular was one of our favourite rooms ever so we had high expectations for their new game. It’s safe to say it did not disappoint. Our favourite style of room is a non-linear, collection type game where you are frantically running around for the whole hour and therefore Turd Raiders was right up our street. We played as a team of 2 and did manage to get all of the turds but it was verrrry close. We regretted not bringing the two team mates that we played UI-55 with so I would recommend coming with a team of 4. We particularly loved the theming which was very original. We’ve played lots of rooms with similar, ‘been there done that’ themes: magic, pirates, carnival etc. whereas it’s not every day you play a room where all the clues are poo-related! So much fun! For this reason we slightly preferred it to UI-55 even though we loved both. A special shout out to our game master Luke. He was clearly super passionate about escape rooms and we had a lovely chat with him both before and after our game about other escape rooms. We were very grateful for his recommendations. The owner Alex (who we had met before on previous visits) was also there and he too is super friendly and passionate. Would highly recommend. Definitely one of the best places to do escape rooms in the country by far. 

A really fun game with a unique theme. Much like their other fantastic room UI-55, the aim is to collect rather than escape quickly.

It's open play with lots of puzzles to choose from at any one point, and it means you can split off from each other and work on different things at once. The variety of puzzles was good, the room looked great, and the price is at a level a lot of games were at over 5 years ago, so feels like really good value.

Straight into my top 3 escape rooms of all time (and my sons favourite)

A tongue in cheek room that has plenty to do for enthusiasts all while maintaining a great sense of humour.

Puzzles are varied and non-linear enough to allow bigger teams to split up. All while still being manageable to do everything with a team of 2 adults and a 9 year old.

A huge collection room with a frantic finish that left us smiling all the way home

Built by people that love escape rooms and love sharing their work with others. Their passion shines above everything and I can't wait for their next room (im already hearing the rumours about more to come)

Absolutely fantastic collection game. We were thrilled with how much there was to do in the room. Great puzzles, great theme and as always great hosting from Compendium 👍🏻 

When it comes to fun, engaging collection games, Compendium just don't miss. Turd Raiders is a bit daft, a bit rude and a whole lot of clever, clever puzzle fun. It's a game that just keeps on giving.

What we loved about it as a pair of enthusiasts is that it really did keep us occupied (no pun intended) for the solid (again...) hour; we were running around, chuckling at fart jokes, shouting out codes and throwing shiny golden turds into a bag for a full 60 minutes of our lives and we would happily turn around, head back up the U-bend and spend another 60 in there as well.

It's stuffed full of puzzles, it's beautifully put-together and - for those who get all of the turds AND the golden plunger, so are 'flushed' - there was a very special prize to put on our mantelpiece as a talking point for dinner parties. Not sure what else I want from a room!

What a room! Honestly, this is the most fun we've ever had in an escape room! Our GM, Luke, was fantastic, and this room had the perfect mix of puzzles. It was an hour of pure hilarious chaos!

22 out of 24 puzzles complete, we missed 8 of the golden turds

Our ratings:

Theming: 10/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 9.5/10
Value: 10/10
Fun: 11/10

Overall: 99%

Completely novel theme, a fantastic number and range of puzzles that kept us pair of experienced players (400+ rooms but not all logged on here) busy for the whole hour. Collection games are my favourite and this is a great example of one. The signposting for the puzzles is subtle yet clear and intuitive, gentle hints were delivered in a timely fashion (not to solve puzzles, but to identify the last few puzzles remaining, as there were so many to do).

If you have any kind of a childish sense of humour, love puzzles and love being busy throughout the whole time you will love this game.

Excellent hosting as always from Alex - the objective of the game was crystal clear from the pre-game preamble and short safety briefing and everything in the room was carefully designed and place with purpose and made sense. It's always a joy to find a room that we can play exactly how it is designed to be played, and the games at Compendium are all like his.

This game is suitable for newbies, families, experienced players alike - I defy anyone to not love this game. 

We had a fantastic time playing this game and would absolutely recommend it. It’s packed with puzzles from start to finish, which made it a real joy for us as couple who are self confessed puzzle lovers. The theming throughout is strong, the set looks great, and it’s clear a lot of thought and effort has gone into the design. It’s one of those rooms where you can really appreciate the love that’s gone into building it.

There are a few things that could make the experience even better. At times, we found the signposting between puzzles a little unclear, and we did spend some time unsure about what linked where.

The clue system is in keeping with the room’s theme and delivered through an intercom, which looks great, but we did struggle to hear the Games Master clearly through it, especially over the background music. It also felt a bit disruptive having to walk away from a puzzle each time we needed a clue. Having multiple intercom points or a speaker system would make things much easier, clearer and help keep the pace up.

The Games Master was lovely friendly, welcoming and clearly passionate. There were just a couple of points where a bit more timely intervention from the GM would have helped. For example, one of us was working on something for quite a while before we found out it couldn’t be solved until the final five minutes, when a certain piece of information is revealed. A brief mention of that at the start, or a subtle nudge at the time, would have made a big difference.

There was also one puzzle that felt slightly off to us, as it involved interacting with something that felt like it should have been out of bounds from a health and safety point of view. That’s a small thing, but worth mentioning.

Overall, we really enjoyed the room and had a great time. It’s full of content, a great challenge for enthusiasts, and clearly still evolving. Would happily recommend it to others, who are looking for a collector style game. 

Another hit from the guys at compendium, UI-55 was our favourite game but turd raiders is something else. From the moment you walk in to the second you walk out it’s high tempo puzzle solving at its best. We got the status FLUSHED as we managed to get all of the golden turds and the golden plunger. I love collection games but this has to be my number 1 game so far.

An absolutely unreal escape room from Alex, Luke and the team who have put a lot time and effort into creating it. It was a joy to play this on its opening day.  

I'm struggling to find the words to do this room justice and explain how we much fun we had playing this room.

One of the best rooms we've played in the UK, this experience equals UI-55, the escape room that made us fall in love with escape rooms in the first place.

Don't miss out on playing this room, you will not be disappointed!