Fortune Teller

The room is beautiful and the design quality is solid through nearly everything....for the first two thirds of the experience. After that things fall apart and left us with a sour taste about the room overall. I think it could use some playtesting adjustments, not even a wholesale overhaul, and it could be a room I love. All that said, the GM was a huge detractor from the experience. As a previous reviewer noted, they were short with us and basically lectured us for at least 10 minutes straight before starting the game. They also interrupted the game over the speaker to give another small lecture while we were trying to listen to game content. I know this was a staff person, not the owner who we had the pleasure to meet when doing their other room, but be warned that this could happen to you as well and it wasn't fun.

The room was unique and had potential for being exciting, but the moderator was not helpful and very short with our group. We were a group of adults and experienced escape room enthusiasts, so it was off-putting to be talked to in such a way. When clues were given, they just kept repeating the same phrase over and over. This was not helpful, especially when the the speakers were not working well enough for all of us to hear throughout the space.

Room itself was a cool design and vibe. The room might’ve been fun, but the lady who helped our group was really rude and it was hard to hear almost any instructions from the room itself or her over all of the sounds and things happening at once.

Mental Trap's biggest strengths are their effects and their ambition. Fortune Teller has both in spades. A fantastic seance with perfect audio and shocking effects I haven't experienced before. There were some technical difficulties, but the ingenuity of the puzzles more than made up for that. Also, bonus points for being the only room I've done that has a puzzle that REQUIRES 4 people. Overall, it was a fun haunt of an escape room executed by some of the best professionals in Portland.