After three in a row with @EcclesLadies at The Escape Room, The Animals made a visit to Manchester to Infiltrate Breakout: You are interviewing one of the most dangerous criminals ever to have walked the planet in a maximum security ward. You believe this person may hold the answer to…
I don’t have much time today (stupid work) but don’t want to miss. Apologies if it seems a bit rushed. My suggestion for today is partly inspired by this post about a little known UK reality/game show from fifteen years ago. In almost every escape game situation you have to suspend…
Buoyed by back to back successes, and challenged by the empty space on the Hall of Fame (i.e. nobody has escaped yet) the @ecclesladies team were keen to take on The Escape Room Manchester’s The Secret Lab. However, drawing from my experience at The Dungeon of Doom, I insisted that…
I think it’s fair to say that everyone with which I’ve escaped has enjoyed it, but none probably as much as the @ecclesladies. Just a week after our first visit we returned to The Escape Room Manchester to take on Prison Break: You are locked in a maximum security prison…
Usually when you enter an escape room you are presented with one of two scenarios: An obvious starting point; a sign on the wall, a document on a table, an out of place object etc. Lots of possible starting points (a decorated set) from which you need to decide what…
Please note this review relates to a visit on January 16th, the day after The Escape Room opened. After visiting a couple of different operators, reading extensively on ExitGames and even giving some thought to opening an escape game business, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what…
You may recall that I introduced yesterday’s Theme Thursday post by saying the idea was very much invented by EscapistTO on the Toronto Room Escapes blog. In a ‘if it happened in a film you would say it’s unbelievable’-level coincidence, the theme that EscapistTO had lined up for yesterday was…
Today a break from the reviews to include a feature blatantly ripped off from EscapistTO. Please go and read some of his thoughts and reviews on escaping; it will make me feel better. The idea of ‘Theme Thursday’ is to come up with a theme for an escape room that…
Please note this review relates to a visit in December 2014. After being wounded on their first go The Animals were keen to put things right and play again. And as Clue HQ were offering a Living Social discount for their other room, Bunker 38, and we’d enjoyed our first…
Please note this review was based on a visit in November 2014. Buoyed by a record breaking performance in Madchester I was keen to play again as soon as possible. But with Team Watch unavailable for an inexplicably long time a new group was needed. Step forward The Animals! I’d…
