Spartabantam


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Played: 10 Apr 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 39
Played: 17 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 46:53 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting

Really like this room.  Being set in the Nottingham caves really adds to the immersive nature of the room, and there are some lovely touches of humour throughout.  Hosting was EXCELLENT, and the props were amazing - no 3d printing here, it all seemed to be authentic WW2 equipment!  Most enjoyable.

Played: 16 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 42 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivelinear

I'm conflicted by this room.  Easily one of the best theming of any room that we've done.  The decor, the sounds, the special effects - lovely.  And certainly more activity/movement required than any other room we have done.  And I would imagine as a two player, quite good fun.  But as a four player, we found it a bit linear, with 1-2 players twiddling thumbs waiting for the next step.  And even now, there are a few puzzles where we still don't know why what we did worked.

[as an aside, this is the only room I think we've ever been to where the host didn't ask us if we had done any escape rooms before putting us in; also one of the few where we have no official record of time taken, either on the team photo, or a little card. Not sure if this is policy or not at Escapologic, but it didnt add to the experience]

Played: 15 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 1.74m Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingintense
We did Cypherdyne and then Daylight Robbery back to back, and I'm glad we did them this way, as this got us into the right frame of mind to tackle the mountain of puzzles in Daylight Robbery!  Daylight Robbery was a full hour of escaping/puzzling and just kept a team of four entertained throughout!  An hour just wasn't enough time to solve all the puzzles, and we're kicking ourselves that we didn't squeeze more in.  One of our favourite rooms out of 40 completed.
Played: 15 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 39:30 Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingquite easy

We did Cypherdyne and then Daylight Robbery back to back, and I'm glad we did them this way, as this got us into the right frame of mind to tackle the mountain of puzzles in Daylight Robbery!  Cypherdyne has lots of nice puzzles and some nice techy elements that appealed to a geek like me.

Played: 12 Feb 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 34:43 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven

This was our first room as a 2 rather than a 4, but we managed to cope!  Some lovely props and overall theming throughout.  Nice twists on standard puzzles too.  You could see how someone else could build the same room and not do it anywhere near as nicely - some real cvare has been taken in making the room look authentic.  Good job!

Played: 30 Dec 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 44:46 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivemagical

Just a beautiful room.  From beginning to end, you are transported into an Age of Magic.  There were squeals of delight throughout.  We've done 30+ rooms and this is definitely near the top.

Played: 30 Dec 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 38:36 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalstory-drivengreat hosting😨creepy

Love the fact that it is within a real barbers shop.  Some nice twists on puzzles as well, which we haven't seen before.  It's a shame the owner was thinking of closing it, as its a great little room.

Played: 19 Aug 2022 Team size: 4
Played: 28 Aug 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 49:42
Played: 28 Aug 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 43:46
Played: 18 May 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 32.02
originalimmersivefamily friendly

Good room with some excellent theming, and quite immersive.  We particularly enjoyed the non-linear design of the room, meaning that all team members could be doing something without waiting for an alpha player to solve a bottleneck puzzle.

Played: 17 Apr 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 49 Outcome: Successful escape!

Quite a nice little game.  Suffered from being done the day after Marvo Induction, so seemed pale in comparison.  Puzzles were nice, although some were a little repetitive (solve this puzzle five times; solve this puzzle eight times; solve this puzzle and wait for 25 seconds).  Nice audio track played throughout helped keep the gameplay immersive

Played: 16 Apr 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersiveepic

No spoilers.  Just go and play this game.  It's the best game we've seen.

Played: 1 Jan 2022 Team size: 3
Played: 7 Jan 2022 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclever
Played: 19 Feb 2019 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalgreat hostinglarge
Played: 16 Feb 2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 45.34 Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingfamily friendly
Played: 11 Apr 2018 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulgreat hostingfamily friendly
Played: 14 Apr 2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Failed :-(
broken techpoor hosting

A reasonably nice room, ruined by poor GM.  Cut short the game after 55 minutes for no apparent reason, and final clue involved us changing the time on the clock after being told not to remove things from the wall.  Appears to have closed down now, which is a shame as the props and theming of the room was very nice (cold war Czech theming).

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