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 …
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 …
