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Permanently Closed - Onboard the famous trans-European Budapest Express, you are with Karine Peaufiner, a famous French detective from Paris. You are traveling to Budapest to meet with other detectives showcasing the latest developments in crime scene forensics. It is nighttime and you are passing slowly through the heart of Europe during a heavy snowstorm. You are reviewing case notes in your cabin with Karine and your colleagues. Suddenly there is a knock at the door, it is the train manager. He looks worried and asks you to come quickly to the First Class dining coach. When you arrive, you see a man slumped over a restaurant table. He was Sir Clarence Hayden and he has been murdered! The manager informs you that in one hour the train will stop at the next station, if the killer hasn’t been apprehended, they will be free to escape into the night and get away with this horrible crime! Your reputation as brilliant detectives precedes you, he asks you to solve the crime so the murderer can be caught and brought to justice. You’re able to narrow down 5 suspects who were seen in the dining car around the time Sir Clarence was murdered. Moving through the cabins and gathering evidence, the killer knows you are hot on their trail and has decided you are their next target. With you out of the picture, they would be free to escape when the train stops. Solve the riddles and puzzles, gather the evidence and solve the murder before it’s too late! Do you have what it takes to find the killer before they find you? Time is of the essence!
- 2-7
- 60 mins
- Hard
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pastormikewilson
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The second escape room we did in Wichita, Kansas with my two brothers was Escapology. It was much better than The Room. Escapology is one of the largest escape room chains in the country. They develop their rooms at their headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, and when they perfect a room, they put them all over the country. I've been to a couple of the Escapology locations, and they always have great lobbies, introduction videos, booking and check-in procedures, and friendly staff. Your game master (the person who gives you hints) is not usually the same person that shows you to your room. I don't really like that because information gets repeated, and you don't really get to know your game master. This location in located in The Alley, a giant entertainment center with an arcade, a bar/restaurant, a bowling alley, go carts, etc. The lobby of the escape room is really cool, and the waver signing process was simple. The employees were nice, but they seemed a little overwhelmed. I'm not sure why because there weren't many people there. My biggest tip for these rooms is make sure you pay attention to and remember what is in an area of the room when you move on to a new area and thoroughly search everything. We did four escape rooms at this location: Budapest Express, Mansion Murder, Under Pressure, and Cuban Crisis. This was a good room with great immersion and decor. Like most rooms, it had a mix of generation one (traditional) locks and generation two (electronic) locks, but I prefer to see more generation two locks. There were a couple clever twists in this room, but most of the puzzles/locks will be very familiar to people who have done a lot of rooms. I won't give too much away, but the ending was disappointing. There were only three of us doing the room, and a fourth person would have been helpful in this room because the ending requires people to divide and conquer. We completed it in about 55 minutes with two hints.
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