Tag Archives: good for experienced teams

Escape Reality: Fibonacci

Cardiff, Dec 2016

This was the second room we played from Escape Reality, and although it shares some of its flaws, overall we found it more enjoyable, even though we narrowly failed to escape within the 60 minute deadline.

It shares the same slightly flawed hint sys… (more)

AIEscape: Leo’s Path

London, Nov 2016

This is a rather unusual, distinctive room. Firstly, it’s deliberately and explicitly linear, with one puzzle leading to the next until you reach the end. Secondly, there’s pretty much no searching involved. It’s also a pretty and at times quite poet… (more)

Escape Room: Abandoned Factory

Tallinn, Jun 2016

The success rate for the Factory was apparently even lower than for the Lab (a.k.a. ‘hardest room in Estonia’ Lab – at time of playing, there had been only three successful teams, ever (!).

It’s very linear and unusually difficult, consisting of a s… (more)

Escape Rooms: Secret Lab

Tallinn, Jun 2016

This room appears to no longer be open, so this review is purely for comparison.

It was billed as the ‘hardest room in Estonia’, and it definitely ranks as one of the hardest rooms I’ve tried. Unfortunately, that was partly because of gratuitous use… (more)

Omescape: Joker’s Asylum

London, Apr 2016

Definitely one of the harder rooms I’ve played – we made it out, but barely.

I found the initial section frustrating, in a way that could be significantly improved with better technology – I won’t go into details since it could be considered a minor… (more)

Cryptex: Bomb

Prague, Jul 2015

There was a nice contraption for one of the puzzles… that unfortunately didn’t work properly for either of our teams. It was a reasonable room, definitely on the hard side so perhaps worth trying for teams looking for a challenge; but on the whole … (more)

Exite: The Curse

Helsinki, Jun 2016

We were one of the first groups to play this room, and at the time no-one had beaten it – we didn’t either, though we missed it only by a matter of seconds. It was difficult mainly because of the sheer quantity of puzzles to get through, which arguab… (more)

TRAP: Bomb Room

Budapest, Aug 2014

I’m writing this review more than two years after playing the TRAP rooms, so my memory is unreliable and they may have changed anyhow – the Bomb Room for one appears to no longer exist. Also, we played all four rooms in a crazy consecutive burst of e… (more)