Battleship - The Pirate Edition

This isn't really an escape room. It's a room filled with puzzles where you try to solve as many as you can to earn more cannonballs, so you can have more shots when you play Battleship. You'll split up into two teams for Battleship, but you can do all the puzzles cooperatively or as the two teams. There's a prep phase where you do a couple puzzles to get your Battleship boards unlocked. Then you do a round of puzzle-solving to earn ammo to play Battleship. After that, you repeat the round of puzzle-solving followed by the second and final round of Battleship. All the puzzles are pretty much combination lock puzzles. If you love that, great. If you want the feeling of satisfaction from escaping a room, you won't find that here. The GM says this room has replayability value, but I don't see us coming back for a second round of Battleship, even if the Battleship is a little tech-y (but not that cool or advanced).

Fun battleship game pitting against each other to win

I really enjoyed this escape room because of the number of puzzles, the theming, and the set design. Be aware though that this isn’t your typical escape room where you solve puzzles and escape as a team. This is a live interactive game of Battleship and escape room puzzles where you have to solve puzzles for more materials to shoot at your opponent’s ships. I’ve played this game before when it was owned by Deceptive Games, and No. 1 Escapes still does a great job at using the same puzzles but in a different format and its delivery. I didn’t even get to finish all of the puzzles and there were some new puzzles that were added as well. We were having such an enjoyable time that we didn’t even realize that the 60 minutes was up already! Very interactive, competitive, and fun!

A puzzle fest bonanza! Definitely a great time. Faithful to the original though I think I liked the original a tad more. If it were a 90 minute game with 3 round of solving, I feel like the game would play better.

I absolutely love this room! It’s super simple: a quick portion where you work with the other “team” before going on your way to solve as many puzzles as possible. The “story” in this room is simple and serves as a reason to solve puzzles but doesn’t add anything to the experience. This room is for puzzle lovers who love to compete against themselves and others, as the number and variety of puzzles means there is difficulty for everybody involved regardless of experience. There are still some puzzles that say “coming soon” but the ones that were there were super cool!

100% agree with another reviewer that this latest version of one of our favorite puzzle-grind rooms is definitely worth doing even if you’ve done previous versions at Not Another Escape Room (still the best version) and Deceptive Games because No 1 Escapes has changed out/added more puzzles. But we also don’t like how much time is allocated to the two rounds of battleship in between the puzzle solving. It feels like we have much less time in this version to solve puzzles in the main room, which is the whole appeal of a puzzle-grind room. We appreciated that our GM gave us 5 extra minutes of puzzle time bc we rushed through the battleship portion to get it over with, but overall we still got less than 60 minutes of our paid play time which is frustrating for a puzzle-grind room. Nevertheless, I’m giving it a ❤️ because I appreciate that No 1 Escapes has preserved this gem of a room, and puzzle-grind rooms are relatively hard to find. And I do appreciate the new puzzles to refresh the room. This game is also replayable bc you won’t get through all the puzzles in one run, and inevitably your teammates will solve puzzles you never get to see. And we appreciate that they’re offering a good discount to re-do the room. But it sucks that only about 30 mins are allocated to the main puzzle solving, which makes it less appealing to return.

The best room for those who love and care about solving puzzles. It’s a PUZZLE HEAVEN! We played both Not Another Escape Room and Deceptive Games’ versions before and it’s definitely worth playing again since No.1 Escape added even more puzzles. However, you only get 2 rounds of 15 minute puzzle solving time instead of 3. (We were able to get more puzzle time by speeding through the first room, so that’s what I recommend for replay groups.) The OG is still the best in my heart, but I’m glad they were able to preserve such an epic game!

Not really an escape room but was still fun.