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ClueCapers: Rescue from Winchokey

Winchester, Sep 2017

Winchokey is ClueCapers’ second escape room, and has a prison escape theme – hence the ‘chokey’ in the name. The venue frames its games as excursions through a portal into a parallel universe, and here your task is to rescue a fellow portal traveller… (more)

Exit The Room: Zombie

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Exit The Room were kind enough to let us play this game 90 mins earlier than we’d booked in for – we didn’t tell them that we wanted to change the time so that we could go try one of their competitor’s rooms too.

Despite the name, there are no zombi… (more)

Paradox Questroom: Mission 007

Tallinn, Jul 2017

The name’s Bond. James Bond.

You’re given a mission brief by a video which was possibly the highlight of the game, appealing to my sense of humour.

Once into the room, you find out the mission had been compromised and you have 60 minutes to solve … (more)

TimeQuest: The Quest to Save Camelot

Tonbridge, Aug 2017

Every once in a while I find myself in the odd position of having not enjoyed playing a game, and yet still thinking it was a good game that I’d be happy to encourage other people to play, and that was the case with TimeQuest’s Camelot game.

TimeQue… (more)

Trapp’d: Molten Creek Mine

Northampton, Aug 2017

This game needs a warning: wear clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Or perhaps a stronger version: expect to come out absolutely filthy.

As you might guess from that, Molten Creek Mine goes all-in on the decor. The story is that you’re a team… (more)

Nogame: The Mystery of the Mad Scientist

Riga, Jul 2017

Mad Scientist had a very unusual beginning to an escape game. Unfortunately, it wasn’t by design. The operator let us into the room and shut the door behind us, leaving us in near complete darkness, with no torches and with a digital clock on the wal… (more)

Lucardo: Contamination

Manchester, Jul 2017

The first game we played at Lucardo was, of course, the one they describe as their hardest room. The gamemaster told us in the briefing that it’s hard not because the puzzles are unusually difficult but because of their sheer quantity, and that was e… (more)

Escape From The Room: The Curse of Old Maid Milly

London, Jul 2017

Escape From The Room is based in the suburban wilderness of Sutton, which although certainly inside the M25 is quite a trek from central London by public transport (though a lot more convenient for any South Londoners with a car). Not only is it off … (more)

The Real Escape: The Chamber of the Deep

Portsmouth, Jun 2017

The three games at The Real Escape each have a very distinct style. The Chamber of the Deep is their pirate game, and the most realistic style of decoration of the three. You’re searching the pirate captain’s cabin for his treasure, and there’s a sui… (more)

Lock’d: Museum Warehouse

London, Jun 2017

Museum Warehouse is a variant on a heist theme, where you are art thieves trying to find and take a set of small statuettes. Cynically, the ‘Warehouse’ part of the name is convenient since it allows a simpler type of decor, based around metal shelvin… (more)