Tag Archives: TimeTrap Escape Rooms

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Curiouser and Curiouser

Reading, Jan 2023

Curiouser and Curiouser is the sequel to Time Trap’s previous game Imaginarium. There are any number of Alice in Wonderland rooms available, but Imaginarium was unusual in combining Wonderland theming with a section set inside Lewis Carroll’s mind. T… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Station X

Reading, Feb 2020

Time Trap’s wartime game is based around Bletchley counter-espionage. Set in a railway station, it gives you the job of identifying which of seven suspects is a spy. You have an additional bonus mission – apparently the spy has hidden several cylinde… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Pudding Lane

Reading, Feb 2020

Those who are less familiar with London history might assume Pudding Lane is confectionary themed – but of course this game is actually named after the place where the Great Fire of London began in 1666. Your team has been sent back in time, not to p… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Imaginarium

Reading, Aug 2018

Quite a number of escape companies use a time travel premise for their games, and the first game I played at TimeTrap demonstrated a stronger than average grasp of historical detail. So it was a surprise to find that in Imaginarium, although it theor… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: The Divide

Reading, Aug 2018

There are all sorts of potential pitfalls involved in attempting to build an escape room that addresses serious social issues – in this case inequality and homelessness. Being designed as entertainment, a game could easily come across as mocking, pat… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Rebellion – 1136

Reading, Mar 2018

Few escape games open with an explanation of one of the more obscure parts of English history, but Rebellion does and pulls it off smoothly. As the intro succinctly explains, you’re travelling back to the 12th century to retrieve the royal crown for … (more)