The Gaol BreakAdventure Rooms Adelaide - Escape Rooms and BarEscape roomIRLInterestingly themed room with some wonderful out of the box thinking unlike a large majority of expected puzzling. Both times the chasing team caught the running team. Seemed to be more physical thinking in the first room with a larger number of puzzles, and more logic and instructional puzzles in the second room. A bit of a shorter experience, as even with many newcomers to escape rooms all escaped early. Suited a large group (14) perfectly, though a little packed in the second room with 7 people. Clues were to be handed physically in the room, but none were needed. A bit tough in some thinking but otherwise great for a new group wanting to get into escapes.
Hunting Bigfoot - A Monster MysteryMindshift Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLAbsolutely stellar experience start to finish. Hunting bigfoot was the perfect level of challenge for my group- most members are fairly new to escape rooms (having played their first or second two days prior) and myself having the benefit of working at one. It is rated 8/10 on their scale. The room itself was spectacular, incredibly well themed and very immersive start to finish. One very small jumpscare in the room, though I was too busy solving it to see it happen- all others in my group were quite startled though so it did its job. My only real complaint was the lighting levels in the room- while it was amazing having the diegetic light in the room (lanterns), the lighting levels got lower the further in you got. Not at all impossible to solve puzzles and in fact we did still do all of it at a very good pace, but we did struggle at a few points having only the two lanterns for the 5 people. If anyone struggles with low lighting I would highly recommend asking for extra lighting within the room or perhaps having a flashlight if yoy would still like to complete this room. This was my first room at mindshift after recommendation from a duo who came to my work and said it was among the best in adelaide- and after playing I am absolutely inclined inclined agree! If only I lived here and could play more of them right away. Danny was amazing start to finish and was lovely to chat to! Another staff member (unfortunately did not get their name, but they were wearing a red shirt) greeted us at the desk and when we came down they asked "are you guys from hunting bigfoot? Did you finish already?" In a very fun tone so they were also amazing despite us not having seen much of them prior.
