Now we’ve got all that “serious” stuff out of the way, we can get on to the main reason the Escape Room World Championships is so good; the unserious stuff! This post is both the easiest to write and the hardest to do justice, but never mind all that, let’s…
The Red Bull Escape Room World Championships culminated in an actual escape room being played. Imagine that! If you just want to see what it looked like, you can watch some not very popular YouTubers playing it below (with cameo appearance from my teammate, Sera, doing a good job of…
As a Lancastrian (let’s not bring Greater Manchester into this) I’m contractually obliged to hate Yorkshire. But in reality I don’t mind it at all (some parts are actually quite nice). If for nothing else, it gave substance for one of my all-time favourite comedy sketches: This last weekend…
I’ve put off writing this post for far too long. Unfortunately that means the ‘enthusiasm’ which I used to fuel the criticism in the earlier sections has long since waned, now that I want to be positive. But they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so hopefully these…
For someone who doesn’t get a lot of time to blog I seem to be spending a lot of time on one subject, eh? Now that I’ve got all that qualifying stuff off my chest I can hopefully be a little more objective. This post will be about the Red…
As I was putting the finishing touches to part 2 of my Red Bull Mind Gamers Recap yesterday I was quite content that most of my (carefully-considered, composed) ranting was over. This chapter was intended to be a quick overview of how we struggled, or not, with the other puzzles and…
Okay, I know why you’re here. You want to see me pass some opinion on the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Championship. Maybe even get ‘controversial’. Maybe, but first: I want to talk about biscuits. Wait, what? Stay with me here. While we were out in Budapest a much bigger…
I know a lot of people are clambering for information and opinion on the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Championship which I participated in last week. I’ll do what I can, and hopefully connect people to other relevant content. But the question is where to start? I don’t have the…
