Yukon GoldEscape! WhistlerEscape roomIRLThis room is built well and has some good puzzles. A couple puzzles in the first room require significant precision, one particularly with placement. We had it correct for probably 5 minutes but because two bottom pieces line up differently than the rest without reason, it wouldn’t trigger the mechanism. For this kind of stuff it would be better as a 1 hour room. This room uses darkness AND background noise as a purposeful component to make the second half more difficult. IMO if you have to use darkness (and now sound) as part of the difficulty, then you don’t have enough confidence in your puzzles. This room is challenging enough without the darkness and sound. Lastly, this facility requires you lock up all your belongings, including smartwatches-one of the only places I’ve been to that does that anymore. It also uses walkie talkies for your clues. The walkie talkies are VERY difficult to understand (again, especially with the extra sound difficulty component) and ours somehow got turned off or died during the game so instead of bringing us another or fixing the one we had, they just let us struggle and then said “we were trying to reach you but couldn’t”. This room could be amazing but has a few design flaws/kinks holding it back.
Aura RisingEscape JoplinEscape roomIRLThe last puzzle is definitely difficult. Our GM helped us keep track of our progress a little bc it’s multiple things you have to keep track of all at once. The rest of the room was awesome!
