Time has stood still! You are in the watchmaker's secret workshop, here too all the clocks have stopped. Hurry up and find a way to restart the world clock before the world descends into chaos.

The Escape GmbH

Timeset [Time Set]

Escape room

Not a very interesting room unfortunately. Neither the puzzles nor the setting felt well developed.

The puzzles were almost all observational in nature, and there were only two moments where I felt they got clever: one was figuring out the zero in the hourglass puzzle, and the other was the proper use of the magnet. The clocks puzzle could work better if players would be given a sheet indicating timezones: this would function both as a clue that the clocks need to be rearranged, and as information required for the puzzle (as it stands, you either have to know the timezones yourself, or brute force the solution). There is also a huge number of red herrings in the room: almost the entirety of the room's posters and the magazine are useless. This meant that we spent time hatching elaborate theories that were more interesting than the actual puzzles, when we were actually supposed to scour the room for Alan keys. We needed a hint for each of the three Alan keys (although some of that is on us). We also needed hints in the second room for both puzzles involving a person standing in the first room. There is a lesson for us here: always try to connect objects on walls with the opposite wall in the other room if it is accessible.

Although there was some effort put into the setting, i.e. most of the puzzles reference time in some way, and the desk is an actual watchmaker desk, the room still felt very stale and generic. It also doesn't help that the room feels more like a big ad for MIDO watches (perhaps a sponsor?) than an escape room. It's even worse, because, like I mentioned, most of the MIDO props are red herrings, so you end up being bombarded with MIDO ads for NOTHING!

This is one of the weakest escape rooms we've played so far.

Timeset [Time Set]

The Escape Zürich

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