Tag Archives: memorable puzzle

Skurrilum: Malvinis Vermächtnis (Malvini’s Legacy)

Hamburg, Nov 2017

Skurrilum’s reputation precedes them, and we added on a side trip to Hamburg purely to try out their games. Frustratingly, only two of their five games are currently available in English, with the rest requiring fluent German, but we eagerly booked i… (more)

iLocked: Alien

Nottingham, Oct 2017

iLocked’s first game was highly automated, and Alien takes the level of technology a step further. The setting and story here is of course a nod to the movie, with the players as the crew of a small spacecraft woken from stasis after an attack from a… (more)

Co-decode: Professor Dunstan and the Search for the Ancient Statuette

Swindon, Aug 2017

Professor Dunstan and the ~~Unfeasibly Long Room Name~~ Search for the Ancient Statuette is buried an industrial park on the east side of Swindon, and it took some searching and a couple of calls to the operator to find our way through t… (more)

Tulleys Escape: Mutiny

Crawley, Aug 2017

Mutiny is Tulleys’ pirate game, and it’s a swashbuckling joy to play. A pirate theme demands good decorations, and this one delivers in spades. It has the same large footfall as its sibling game and is a clear step up in its visual impact. (Players s… (more)

Find Exit: The Bank Job

Riga, Jul 2017

The Bank Job starts in darkness, and I was pleased to be supplied with not just the usual hand-held torches but also lens-less glasses with mini torches built into the frame, which both make the darkness less annoying and had a nice elite cat burglar… (more)

Extremescape: Lost Tomb

Peak District, Jul 2017

Extremescape’s first game was a big, brilliant pirate game. Their second is loosely inspired by Indiana Jones, and it somehow manages to be even better. Like Pirate Ship, Lost Tomb is a 90 minute game. Where Pirate Ship injects a moment or two of une… (more)

Phobia: Houdini Escape

Paris, Jul 2017

Houdini is a prison escape game with a twist. The briefing describes how Houdini himself is the only prisoner to escape this jail, and you need to beat his escape time of 60 minutes to prove yourself worthy of joining the great man on tour. Also, the… (more)

Code to Exit: The Dark Ages

Altrincham, Jul 2017

Code To Exit is based in Altrincham on the outskirts of Manchester, about half an hour by car from the city centre, built and run by a couple of Hungarian business partners. There’s a particular style of escape room that I think of as Hungarian, bein… (more)

Make Your Escape: The Signal

Derby, Jul 2017

Second up, was the venue’s original game “The Signal”. Set back from the first game with its own separate reception and briefing space, the backstory around this game is again based on a local legend.

The blurb says:

“Following reports of strange … (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Heist

Exeter, Jun 2017

I got a good impression of Red House Mysteries from the moment I entered the venue, through a corridor lightly but skilfully decorated to evoke an air of old-time mystique. They have two games with quite distinct themes and styles, and the first one … (more)