Houdini's Workshop

Love this escape room! Super themed as a magician space and some really neat magic tricks that are puzzles! Casey was super friendly and we loved chatting with him! Highly recommend and we will be back to finish the other rooms…

This room was super fun, the puzzles were creative, satisfying, and the theme was a thread that pulled together throughout the entire game. The elements in the room were a bit well-used, and a lot of the locks were number combo locks, but there was a variety of interesting clues and games to play throughout that kept things feeling fresh. Overall a fun and entertaining escape that I would recommend.

This room had so much I had never seen before, & it might be one of my new favorites! HUGE shouts to Mikayla who guided us through one of the best escape days my team has ever had. We all had such a blast thanks to her. Highly recommend PanIQ NYC for above & beyond hospitality.

This room was really cool where it actually incorporates magic into the room and puzzles! I also saw some puzzles that I have never seen before, which was really cool as well! If you get the chance to do a room, this one is worth it!

Highly recommend for any level of escape game enthusiasts!

Not a great one. Too simple.

While there were a lot of locks in this room, getting the code for the locks were done in unique ways. The puzzles were fun, and a lot of them were very unique. We ended up getting in 5 minutes late because we got stuck near time square, and the staff was very understanding. Would definitely recommend!

Staff are amazing. But the gameplay is a bit all over the place. It’s not one puzzle after the next. It’s all at once, so you get confused about which clues are for which lock. Also, too many locks.

Surprisingly good for a room that used so many master locks. The only issue we had was with a couple unfun red herrings. For one, there are differently colored pins on one of the locks, but this isn’t a clue, despite there being several color-based puzzles in the room.

The upsides: some very fun and creative puzzles, surprisingly challenging (might be the closest I’ve cut an escape), and the staff is very nice and cool (shoutout to the guy with the dipper pines hat). The downsides: a couple red herrings (one of them quite major) that really threw us off (and I personally am against red herrings in rooms in general). Also, there’s a 5 letter lock that is multicolored (three different colors across the 5 letters), but it’s not puzzle related, it’s because they replaced pieces of the lock multiple times… which was really confusing. Lastly, there was one double clue (an item where the text was reused) which was kind of confusing since generally in an esc room once something is used, it’s done. Anyways, overall a really fun time!