The StorykeeperLocurioEscape roomIRLPossibly the best room I’ve ever done. If you don’t like this, then you don’t like escape rooms. I got the vibe from the other reviews that I would regret not doing this room, so I’m glad we make it work during our short amount of time in the city. We were able to escape with two experienced puzzlers with a number of hints along the way
Cosmic CrisisThe Escape Game - MinneapolisEscape roomIRLLots of fun unique puzzles. Our group of two experienced puzzlers happened to be paired with two newcomers. We were able to work together and teach the newcomers escape room basics. We finished with plenty of time to spare
The Arcane LibraryThe Lodge of Lazarus CroweEscape roomIRLLike the other reviews mention, this room is linear so I don’t recommend more than 3-4 people. However it is a great room if you have a group of mixed experience players. New players won’t have a problem figuring out what they should focus on. Veteran players will enjoy the novel and technical aspects of the puzzles in the room
The Cursed Carnival [Abandoned Carnival]Lock and Key EscapeEscape roomIRLTwo adults. We had fun in this room. Host was friendly. Puzzles were fun
The DepthsThe Escape Game - MinneapolisEscape roomIRLA fun, well themed room. Two experienced puzzlers and we were able to complete this with plenty of time to spare. I don’t recommend a group larger than three as there wasn’t a ton to do in parallel
The AnomalyPuzzleWorksEscape roomIRLAll of the rooms at Puzzleworks are well done, but I recommend saving this one for last and a group of 3-4 highly skilled puzzlers Most rooms you’re just working towards escaping in the allotted time. But with this room you’re basically doing three disjoint 20 minute rooms. Regardless of your performance in each room, you still “escape”. This room is different in that you’re just working towards a score which gets put on a leaderboard against other arbitrary scores My wife and I are avid, casual puzzlers. We aren’t interested in the competitive side of escape rooms. We just want to complete all of the puzzles in a room and escape before time runs out. There were several puzzles we did not solve in this room because we ran out of time in the various segments and were forced to move on to the next part. If at any point you get stuck on any of the puzzles I highly recommend asking for a clue immediately or else your experience might be similar to ours where you “won” but didn’t get to solve all of the puzzles and don’t even get to know what you did wrong Also, we thought we had solved a couple of the puzzles in the first segment correctly but based on our final result we messed them up. Not having immediate feedback on whether or not your solution is correct with the opportunity to try it again if you’re wrong is very frustrating Anyhow, do this room with a group of either three or four puzzlers who know what they’re doing and are up for a competitive room and ask for hints the moment you get stuck on anything and you’ll have a nice time. Enjoy your arbitrary point total at the end To be clear: don’t send more than four people into this room. There wasn’t enough parallelizable work to keep that many people busy One other thing to note: there’s no common ground / plot between the three disjoint rooms which seems like a miss
The ExperimentCognition EscapesEscape roomIRLPuzzles were unique. Overall, the room lacked flow and cohesion and was needlessly complicated to the point of making it more frustrating than enjoyable. The hint system was incredibly slow and as a result we ran out of time before we could finish
EnchantmentRed Door Escape Room - EncinitasEscape roomIRLTwo adults plus a three year old for an extra challenge. Finished with time to spare. The three year old thought the room was amazing. My wife and I enjoyed the room as well
Company Like... FishTactical Escape 101 - MaplewoodMN: Maplewood MallEscape roomIRLThis was one of the easier rooms we have done. Our group of two finished in under 30 minutes. The game was well designed; we only needed to ask for a clue once. It was a fun outing!
Connolly’s OfficeStillwater Escape Co.Escape roomIRLFun room. Completed with time to spare by two experienced puzzlers. Lots of fun little puzzles. Kept us busy and feeling like we were moving forward the whole time Bonus: theme of room loosely ties in to the history of the building!