Christmas CatastropheThe Escape DateEscape roomIRLThis one was rough. While the room itself is difficult, the hard thing with it was that the GM paid no attention to our game and had no clue what was going on. They had this gimmick that you had to hold hands and sing a Christmas song to get a clue, which I’m sure they thought was cute. We played along the first time, but when it resulted in no clue, we quickly gave up on that. Partway through the room, we were solving a puzzle that required being able to hear. Between the Christmas music playing from the screen and the kids-no exaggeration- screaming their heads off right outside the door, we couldn’t hear anything. We asked that she turn the Christmas music down… no response. We asked for a clue a second time… no response. A third time… no response. We got the clue on the fourth time… and it was for a puzzle we had already started solving, but didn’t have all the pieces for. We kept going on the room, but we were stymied. The thing is, I know that part of it was my brain was not fully engaged and we were struggling to solve things we should have been able to solve, but the fact that ALL THREE of the clues we asked for, we had to ask AT LEAST twice (the second clue was the only one we had to ask for four times). The final clue, she actually came into the room to see what was going on. It was a very frustrating experience overall.
Th3 C0D3Escapology - DraperEscape roomIRLThis escape room was pretty good. I wouldn’t say I loved it, but it was pretty good. There were only two of us and it took us 45 minutes with two hints. Overall, it was fine. It was good for a Tuesday activity.
