A slight twist on the original definition of a Mechanics Monday, instead of an element that’s constant in every game, I’d like to discuss an element you some of the time – red herrings – and maybe start some discussion on whether they’re a good thing for escape games or not. …
As we’ve already got a plan for next week’s Themed Thursday I thought I’d share this with you today. I thought I’d had a really good original idea for an escape room. It would be set in Paris and your daughter has been kidnapped. You take on the role of …
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that when @Escapistto first coined the phrase he said “Themed Thursdays” rather than “Theme Thursdays” as I’ve preferred. The reason for this is that it wasn’t intended to be purely about escape room themes. Just that posts on a Thursday – a potential midweek …
Unsurprisingly when people are coming up with themes and plots for escape games they think about situations where you’re trapped inside somewhere you don’t want to be. Prison is the most obvious example, but we certainly can’t say that’s an underused theme as there are two jail breaks in Manchester …
Reviewing a new room is fun enough, but visiting a new site is better, and a new operator better still. And I got do that twice this last weekend! But first things first. As mentioned by ExitGames, Escaping is exploding in Liverpool at the moment. Not long ago Clue HQ …
Prologue: I started writing this post on Wednesday, and planned to finish it the next evening. Then when I got home from work on Thursday I saw this tweet from @EscapistTO. I’ve said before that great minds think alike but this is getting ridiculous! Anyway, I haven’t read that post yet …
Sometimes when reviewing an escape room you struggle to say anything beyond the obvious; the presentation was nice, the host was pleasant, the puzzles were easy, yadda yadda yadda… That isn’t the case with Classified. I’m not saying the host wasn’t pleasant! I mean it gave me lots of other …
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 …
