BubbleAndSqueak


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Played: 2 Mar 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:12 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy
Played: 2 Mar 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:12 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 17 Feb 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 89:35 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 30 Dec 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:39 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 30 Dec 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:34 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 26 Jan 2025 Team size: 5 Time taken: 34:52 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 03/11/24 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:47 Outcome: Successful escape!
clever

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).

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

Overall: 93%

Played: 5 Dec 2024 Team size: 5 Time taken: 43:49 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy

This is a good game for non-enthusiasts, easy to understand, and not overly complicated. It felt like the old point-and-click style games, with puzzles dotted in between. Some fun puzzles.

Played: 24 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 51:26 Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hosting

This was a really solid game, with well-thought-out puzzles, and an additional side quest to complete if you wanted to. The theming was fantastic, and our GM was fantastic!

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

Overall: 93%

Played: 24 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:07 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 24 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 60:53 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalfunnygreat hosting

This room was such fun! It kept true to being a proper pub, and our GM (T) was INCREDIBLE!!! T brought it all to life, and I can't recommend T (and the room) enough! The adult humour was done in such a casual way that it encouraged my husband and I to start cracking jokes! The puzzles were fantastic, things were hidden in ingenious ways... We recommend this room!

In addition to this, as it was the final day of our Honeymoon, T let us make our mark in the room itself... See if you can spot us! :)

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

Overall: 94%

Played: 23 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 65:26 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 21 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 73.42 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclever

Really good game, we loved the connection to the senses. Be aware if you struggle with mobility, though, there are stairs and areas where you'll need to crawl. It was one of the cheaper rooms that we found in Amsterdam, but the quality definitely didn't suffer because of it!

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 9.5/10
Value: 8.5/10
Fun: 9.5/10
Overall: 91%

Played: 6 Jun 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 20 Aug 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 3 Jul 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 22 Oct 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 52:29 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 28 Aug 2023 Team size: 7 Time taken: 31:37 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 17 Aug 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 60 Outcome: Failed :-(
illogical

I'm putting in the same review for this room and for The Vault, as we did them as the double room, Audacious.

We were incredibly disappointed by these rooms. The puzzles were illogical, some requiring logic leaps with no clues. There were red herrings that seemed to only exist for the GM's amusement, and the whole experience felt like the rooms had been made to make the GM feel smart, rather than to provide enjoyment for the team.

Theming: 6/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 1/10

Overall: 44%

Played: 17 Aug 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 60 Outcome: Failed :-(
illogical

I'm putting in the same review for this room and for Return To The Rock, as we did them as the double room, Audacious.

We were incredibly disappointed by these rooms. The puzzles were illogical, some requiring logic leaps with no clues. There were red herrings that seemed to only exist for the GM's amusement, and the whole experience felt like the rooms had been made to make the GM feel smart, rather than to provide enjoyment for the team.

Theming: 6/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 1/10

Overall: 44%

Played: 6 Mar 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 60+ Outcome: Failed :-(
Played: 27 Dec 2021 Team size: 5 Time taken: 53:30 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 24 Oct 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 7 Jun 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 12 May 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 11 May 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hosting
Played: 11 Apr 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 27 Mar 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 18 Mar 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 3 Oct 2018 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hostingplain

As this room has a minimum of 3 players, we brought a friend. Unfortunately, the room was fairly empty and pretty basic. There was only one reason to need 3 players, and it could easily have been built to only need 2. The room itself left one of us, and at several times, 2 of us standing around not doing anything

Theming: 5/10
Puzzles: 5/10
GM: 2/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 2/10

Overall: 4/10

Played: 13 Mar 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed :-(

It was a fun room with decent puzzles, but be wary if you have bad knees. It required a lot of sitting on the floor and crouching, which I struggled with, causing us to run over by 2 minutes. They let us finish the room because we were so close. A few pretty cool puzzles, although one was a little janky. As a couple doing this room, the waiting area and initial briefing felt very corporate-focused, but the room didn't.

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 7.5/10
Fun: 7/10

Overall: 7/10

Played: 29 Mar 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting

As always, good theming and a fantastic, enthusiastic GM

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 8/10
Fun: 8/10

Overall: 8/10

Played: 23 Mar 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting

Really cool theming from the moment we entered, and the GM was in character (and costume). Fun puzzles and good storyline

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 8/10
Fun: 8/10

Overall: 8/10

Played: 12 May 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:37 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 16 May 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 6 Dec 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
plain

Very plain room, not much physically there. The puzzles were rather strange, and it didn't seem to flow very well. They also thought we'd booked for a different game, so we had to wait while they prepared the room we'd actually booked.

Theming: 2/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 2/10
Value: 2/10
Fun: 2/10

Overall: 2/10

Played: 3 Apr 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 60:00 Outcome: Failed :-(
poor hosting

At the beginning you're split into two cells. Make sure that you have at least one person in each cell who isn't colour blind! We played as a team of 3, two of us are colour blind. This meant that we couldn't complete one of the first puzzles. After asking for assistance due to colour blindness repeatedly for several minutes, we finally got help, when we were told 'You should have told us that you're colour blind!'

After that fiasco, a puzzle ending was broken, leading to us standing around the tiny room with two GMs trying to fix the puzzle (rather than just giving us the key so we could progress). Other puzzles felt like they were missing clues, and some keys didn't work properly (despite being the correct keys)

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 4/10
GM: 3/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 5/10

Overall: 50%

Played: 18 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:13 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 15 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:50 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 15 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 53:47 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 13 Sep 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 51:52 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hosting👻scary

As a team that doesn't like scary rooms, this was incredible. We asked them to turn down the scares, which they happily did, removing the jump scare and turning down the music. There was a crawl space and some really good puzzles.

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

Overall: 9/10

Played: 10 Nov 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverimmersive

Our first-ever escape room, and it set a very high bar for all future rooms. Our GM was fantastic, and the scoring system was so cool! There's one feature we haven't seen since in over 50 rooms. Honestly, we can't recommend it enough!

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

Overall: 10/10

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

Played: 30 Aug 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 39:04 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 17 Mar 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 31 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 53:06 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 17 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:13 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 16 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:06 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 3 May 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 7 Nov 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
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