Tag Archives: Lock Academy

Lock Academy: The Examination

Paris, Sep 2023

The premise of The Examination is unusual for Lock Academy – because this is your graduation exam. The test is overseen by an AI assistant, and assesses a variety of skills that have a suspicious degree of overlap with the skills needed to beat an es… (more)

Lock Academy: Revolt At Lock Academy

Paris, Sep 2023

Each room at Lock Academy is different and distinctive, but after playing a few of them you start to recognise a house style to the puzzles and the game structure. I’m not going to give away the plot, but Revolt starts off with the (fictional) founde… (more)

Lock Academy: Très Cher Lock (Little Miss Lock)

Paris, Oct 2018

Lock Academy currently operates six escape rooms, and of those Très Cher Lock is the one I’d heard of first, the one that comes up most frequently in discussions of which games to play in Paris. However, that’s because it’s one of their earlier games… (more)

Lock Academy: L.A. Confidential

Paris, Oct 2018

Despite the name this is nothing to do with the 1997 movie starring Russell Crowe. The L.A. stands for Lock Academy, the detective school that provides a common setting for all this venue’s games, and your task is… to relax in the Academy’s recreat… (more)

Lock Academy: Le Casse de la Siècle (The Heist of the Century)

Paris, Oct 2018

First of three games I tried at Lock Academy, Heist of the Century was also the first escape room I’ve tried playing in a different language. Due to a complicated series of booking problems that were entirely my fault, I ended up having to find a sub… (more)