Your super-rich friend has invited you to a concert with The Weeknd!

You’re invited to a VIP room at the concert hall before the concert starts. You quickly realise you’re locked in and you need to solve all sorts of puzzles to make it to the concert that starts in just 60 minutes!

Reykjavik Escape

Happy Hour

Escape room

I don't think I could honestly recommend this room to anybody. The story is very simple and the puzzle execution inside is pretty lackluster with no real connection to the story or explanation as to why they would be there. The idea is that you're (accidentally) locked in a backstage room and have to get out to go see a concert. First big question is why is there a locked door in the middle of the room splitting the group? I'll suspend my disbelief long enough to play along. So you have to solve two puzzles to get two 4-digit codes to open the door. We managed to solve the door puzzles without solving one of the puzzles to open up a passthrough (because we couldn't figure out how to reset the lock to input the code properly). Then it was on to the rest of the puzzles. One puzzle had label printer strips on the wall with numbers written in (fading) sharpie and opening the door revealed two other strips. But the information on the strips was connected to... random children's blocks? In an backstage room with a bar in it? Why are there blocks here? Or another printer strip above a lockbox that just said "HAPPY HOUR" (the name of the room) which apparently correlated to one small clue that said the time that happy hour began. But you could have put a poster or piece of art up, or some sort of sign? Not just a random printer strip? There were also a bunch of red herrings in the props (for example, drink menus with prices on them and a cash register, but there was no puzzle to solve there and the cash register didn't do anything, or a collection of glasses grouped by type organized from left to right on a shelf). We ended up accidentally solving the final room puzzle to escape because the solution was in the correct place on the wall (which we were told was normal) but didn't even think about it being the final door key because we still had a secret room we knew we had to get into (could see the light behind a panel). The room is suggested for 7-12 people but there were lots of times where a bunch of us were just wandering around trying to figure out what to do next. Ultimately, it felt very lackluster and low effort/budget. The story was nonexistent and the puzzles didn't do enough to tie into the story. Cannot recommend this room and am concerned that other rooms by the same group would be the same, unfortunately.

Happy Hour

Reykjavik Escape

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