Christmas Catastrophe

This one was rough. While the room itself is difficult, the hard thing with it was that the GM paid no attention to our game and had no clue what was going on. They had this gimmick that you had to hold hands and sing a Christmas song to get a clue, which I’m sure they thought was cute. We played along the first time, but when it resulted in no clue, we quickly gave up on that. Partway through the room, we were solving a puzzle that required being able to hear. Between the Christmas music playing from the screen and the kids-no exaggeration- screaming their heads off right outside the door, we couldn’t hear anything. We asked that she turn the Christmas music down… no response. We asked for a clue a second time… no response. A third time… no response. We got the clue on the fourth time… and it was for a puzzle we had already started solving, but didn’t have all the pieces for. We kept going on the room, but we were stymied. The thing is, I know that part of it was my brain was not fully engaged and we were struggling to solve things we should have been able to solve, but the fact that ALL THREE of the clues we asked for, we had to ask AT LEAST twice (the second clue was the only one we had to ask for four times). The final clue, she actually came into the room to see what was going on. It was a very frustrating experience overall.

We were under the assumption this room would be really hard. It’s not that bad. It’s a cute holiday room. It’s a single room, but set a theme and was fun to do.

This room was a lot of fun, however it felt like it was a little too easy. As a team of 2 we finished with 18 minutes left (normally we are right down to the last minute). The workers were surprised and said it was one of their hardest rooms, but we felt like there could have been a couple more puzzles added. Still a lot of fun, just wish there was a little more.