rubylantern
97 escape rooms
The best thing about this room is the beautiful scenic decor. It’s stunning. There were also a couple of enjoyable puzzles. Otherwise, I found this room to be frustrating because there was zero organic flow to the game. You are only allowed 3 hints, which I consider terrible customer service because people are spending their hard earned money for a fun experience. And of course escape rooms should be challenging but if people are stuck and have already used up their 3 hints, are they honestly supposed to just wander around aimlessly for the remainder of the game?? A couple of the puzzles were riddle-based and the answer was only available by using 1 of your precious 3 hints. People should not be expected to be good at solving riddles and the solution should be located somewhere in the room. A lot of puzzles/clues were handwritten and were faded and very hard to read. One puzzle did absolutely nothing once solved. And the strangest thing of all was that it seemed to just abruptly end once we were 30 minutes in and I placed some items in a certain spot and there was an announcement that we had successfully won the game. Again, no organic flow, just a seemingly random series of puzzles peppered with red herrings. Such a shame that it was so beautifully decorated because the puzzles definitely did not match that level of quality.
