The Fortune Teller and the Freak Show

The Fortune Teller and the Freak Show

Very positive (32 ratings)

Clockwork Escapes

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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The year is 1875, and the traveling circus has come to town. You're excited to check it out - especially the fortune teller - but something feels off as soon as you enter the tent. Something sinister is going on at the circus. Trapped there, you must figure out what is happening and put a stop to it, or you will become part of the show!

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (32)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

@rhodisney
rhodisney

67 escape rooms

So I'm very guilty of not listening to intros for escape rooms because normally they don't matter and the room has a general theme with puzzles and you don't need to listen. Well, we escaped without paying attention, but it definitely would've shaved off a few minutes haha! This room was very fun and very well themed. All the props felt expensive and purposeful. It was a very mechanical room with some little pops of tech which added to the ambiance which was appreciated. Can't wait to see their next room!

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Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

6

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

16

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Jul 18, 2026 | Experienced Jul 12, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Glad you enjoyed the room and theming! We aim to have immersive intros for our rooms so make sure to keep that in mind for our future rooms ;) haha!

Jul 19, 2026

@roskosmos
roskosmos

121 escape rooms

Excellent room! Well themed with puzzles that fit in nicely with the narrative. Lots of room for parallel solving as a team. Just a very solid, well done experience

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Spooky

Minimum age

13

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Jul 11, 2026 | Experienced Jul 11, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Glad you really enjoyed the room! Thanks for the review and we hope to see you back for other rooms in the future!

Jul 13, 2026

@kmad33
kmad33

134 escape rooms

We really enjoyed this room! There were tons of puzzles and props and felt satisfied once something was solved. The set design was great and it was a great mix of locks and tech.

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Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

No

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

10

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Jul 10, 2026 | Experienced Jul 10, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Thanks for the review! Happy to hear you really enjoyed this one!

Jul 13, 2026

K

Kemcd

24 escape rooms

Enjoyed the experience a ton! We did not escape, but I think we would have been pretty close if one of us did not *insist* on solving a few puzzles without help. Family stubbornness aside, the room was immersive, the puzzles hinted without pushing too hard, and there were some fun effects as you progressed. We will definitely be back!

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Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Physically active

Not at all

Jun 28, 2026 | Experienced Jun 28, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Thanks for the review! Glad you still enjoyed it despite not escaping.

Jul 4, 2026

@Virgecat18
Virgecat18

112 escape rooms

Again, it was a good room but some puzzles were extremely long and I don’t feel like their was quite enough time to process the entire thing.

Gameplay

It was good but could use some tweaks. I think this is probably a 70 minute room, not a 60 minute room.

Atmosphere

The set was absolutely incredible one of the top five we have seen and we’ve done a ton of rooms.

Customer service

He was very nice and welcoming.

Easy to find location

Yes

Jun 14, 2026 | Experienced Jun 14, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Thank you for the review! Glad to hear you enjoyed the room and we appreciate the feedback you gave us after the room. Thank you so much for the very kind words regarding the set and atmosphere of the room. We hope to see you back for The Lucky Horseshoe Saloon and our other future rooms!

Jun 15, 2026

m

mariad23

9 escape rooms

The room itself was very detailed but the puzzles themselves were very arduous, time-consuming and frustrating and nothing flowed logically. Some things we couldn’t reach and it was annoying that there was only one monitor in the 2 rooms. The GM also kept giving us hints to things we already figured out. We will probably not return to this place.

Gameplay

The puzzles could only be described as frustrating! Many were extremely time-consuming.

Atmosphere

It was so immersive there was so much to look at it made it very difficult to figure out what was a clue and what was a prop. We spent a good chunk of time just taking inventory

Customer service

The GM was really condescending and said the room could be hard for newbies. We were not—we had done many and solved all of them but this one the puzzles were arduous and not fun to do.

Particularly interesting or different

No

Not really

Story

Kind of corny and the video at the beginning was boring.

Difficulty

Expert

It was only 2 of us but we probably would not have solved it with 90 minutes.

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

8

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Jun 12, 2026 | Experienced Jun 10, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

We're sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your experience with us. We appreciate the feedback that you have given and are taking it into consideration along with feedback we have received from others. We are actively discussing and working on some adjustments to the room. We didn't want to exclude two player groups from booking the room by enforcing a larger minimum of tickets to be purchased. That being said the room has proven more difficult for smaller groups than we anticipated from our testing. We will make it clearer on our website that we do recommend 4 or more players for the room. We hope you give us another chance at some point in the future whether it be in The Lucky Horseshoe Saloon or another of our future rooms. Edit: It looks like you left a dislike on our Lucky Horseshoe Saloon room as well. Looking at our booking history, I believe you have not played that room. If you would like to send us an email at [email protected] we would like to work this out with you to try and make things right.

Jun 15, 2026

@Vinnus
Vinnus

9 escape rooms

This was a fun theme with many puzzles to keep my family of 4 busy the whole time.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

May 19, 2026

C

ClockworkEscapes (Owner)

Thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed it!

Jul 4, 2026

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