The Mystery At The Majestic Theatre

Reviewing the Magic and Curiosity shop games together. Both games have strong opening sets and far lesser impressive spaces after. Both are 45 minutes and you need to move swiftly to escape. Both games have high-consequence puzzles that can be time-consuming; solving these right the first time could make or break your escape. Both games have excellent, on-theme puzzles, which is where Find & Seek thrives. These are pretty challenging games. The Magic game is far more linear and easier, with some nice reveals early on. In general, the puzzles are solved in the room they have progressed into. The Curiosity Shop is more challenging and non-linear. Teams will be moving between the rooms back and forth more in this game. The puzzles were frantic with a rapid pace, similar to Undercooked at Omescape. There are some larger, tactile pieces that are very fun the play with. Overall, both of these games are good if you are into intense puzzling. Be ready to ask for hints if it feels like you are slowing down.

Two puzzles can happen simultaneously the whole time without overlapping so two groups can work at once which is good for big groups. They gave two notepads to write things down which were very helpful for solving the puzzles!

a solid game compared to the rest of the vancouver escape room scene! some really fun logic puzzles and very satisfying to solve

With two people they allowed five extra minutes which was needed! 45 minutes causes you to move very quickly. Overall good game, not too difficult, not to simple.

This room had potential but as soon as we came to the FIRST exhaustingly long puzzle (a logic problem that didn’t fit the theme and took us almost 15 min to solve) we knew there was no way we’d succeed in this 45 min room. I’m really opposed to rooms that are under the standard 1-hr minimum but then on top of that, give you time-sucking puzzles that feel like a chore to solve. This is definitely an hour room with only a 45 min timer. It’s setting paying customers up for disappointment. We paid over $110 for this experience and we left feeling frustrated and ripped off. We haven’t played hundreds of escape rooms like others we know, but we’ve played over 30 (escaped all but 3) and only a very few of those were 45 min escape rooms. Please change this scammy business model.

Room was very fun and logical, escaped with 2 ppl and with ~5min left. I would recommend players to not be deterred by the reviews! This game has a good amount of puzzles but most are linear and not complicated. In my opinion this room is actually better with less people, as most puzzle would not require more than 1 person to solve (and might even get messy if multiple people are trying to solve at the same time). There was one puzzle that actually requires a good 5-10min but in our opinion it’s unnecessarily long. It’s the same logic solving multiple times… and quickly becomes a drag. Also in this puzzle one of the symbols doesn’t even match exactly! This creates a lot of confusion when we were solving, we gave the feedback to the game master but it sounds like they knew the issue but just doesn’t bother to fix it. Was a bit disappointed. However, despite some issues, overall this is a great game that is perfect for <4 people. Story line was also creative, and some puzzle was pretty novel.

Did this room with friends, was really fun and the atmosphere was so cool. There were so many different puzzles I’ve never seen before that weren’t just lock and key! I recommend this place to everyone!

Because you can do multiple puzzles at once, it’s good for larger groups. We had 4 very experienced puzzlers, and it wasn’t very hard for us at all. All of the clues are pretty straightforward, but some of them are time wasters. I did feel the GM rushed us a bit because the previous team ran late and the next group was waiting outside, even though we finished well within the allotted 45 minutes. I would do a different room at this location. You don’t have to pay for parking underneath the mall for the first two hours of parking there, which is nice.

It was too hard for our kids ages 12, 9, and 7. Story was cute but our family failed miserably. Also, located in a kind of creepy location with many homeless people high on drugs outside yelling nonsense and kicking the dirt when we were waiting for our Uber.

Fun room with a good number of parallel puzzles (necessary for the 7 of us) and an fun set.