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Yesterday, my girlfriend surprised me with a trip to an Escape Room. We never did it before and joined with 3 friends on this first trial. The room was said not to be too difficult, and slightly different from other Escape Rooms.
For those that don't know the concept: they put you in a room, where you have to find the way out; usually this means having to find some key or solve some puzzles. This one was slightly different: you were put in a room where you have to find clues to identify who killed a person. You get his last will, photos and short description of the suspects and a box with a display: the display shows the time (you have one hour), allows the person monitoring it to give hints if needed and allows for asking for help or telling the solution.
The room had this 30s interior, nice concept but not too well finished (probably from other people trying to pry open stuff or so).
I assume that not many here will find there way to that particular room, but if you would plan an escape room in Warsaw, you may want to skip the part between the lines. I am not giving any solutions here though, but the surprise effect of entering the room is nice to have.
The room had some weird items in it: an old camera, a piano, two old wall clocks right next to each other (did not open, did not work), some furniture and a bar behind saloon doors where there was an old working telephone and an old radio playing music - the box for the radio had a coin slot. There was a hidden safe, for which we first had to find the combination. Information in the safe allowed us to get a clue on how to open a secret door in the room (very cool) and that gave us clues to another secret room, which really was a surprise. Despite the fact that the details in the room were not very nicely finished, it was all very nicely done. The operator gave us 2 hints: once regarding an object that we put aside (it was said that all objects serve one purpose, but this one can be argued to serve 2 purposes - I thought I had to do that but some thing looked too flimsy) and a second time regarding gaining access somewhere (we had the right idea, but executed it wrong).
We solved the mystery in about 45 minutes, so not too shabby for our first time.
It really had a real-life point-and-click adventure feeling to it: you just try things and see what happens. I do think that 5 people is perhaps too much, that particular mystery was for 2-6, and you really need 2 people to perform some things. With 5, one of our group did not seem to have figured out any clue but he found other things that we missed but unfortunately for him did not need. But all of us had fun in it.
For sure we will do it again, next time perhaps some more difficult one.
Yesterday, my girlfriend surprised me with a trip to an Escape Room. We never did it before and joined with 3 friends on this first trial. The room was said not to be too difficult, and slightly different from other Escape Rooms.
For those that don't know the concept: they put you in a room, where you have to find the way out; usually this means having to find some key or solve some puzzles. This one was slightly different: you were put in a room where you have to find clues to identify who killed a person. You get his last will, photos and short description of the suspects and a box with a display: the display shows the time (you have one hour), allows the person monitoring it to give hints if needed and allows for asking for help or telling the solution.
The room had this 30s interior, nice concept but not too well finished (probably from other people trying to pry open stuff or so).
I assume that not many here will find there way to that particular room, but if you would plan an escape room in Warsaw, you may want to skip the part between the lines. I am not giving any solutions here though, but the surprise effect of entering the room is nice to have.
The room had some weird items in it: an old camera, a piano, two old wall clocks right next to each other (did not open, did not work), some furniture and a bar behind saloon doors where there was an old working telephone and an old radio playing music - the box for the radio had a coin slot. There was a hidden safe, for which we first had to find the combination. Information in the safe allowed us to get a clue on how to open a secret door in the room (very cool) and that gave us clues to another secret room, which really was a surprise. Despite the fact that the details in the room were not very nicely finished, it was all very nicely done. The operator gave us 2 hints: once regarding an object that we put aside (it was said that all objects serve one purpose, but this one can be argued to serve 2 purposes - I thought I had to do that but some thing looked too flimsy) and a second time regarding gaining access somewhere (we had the right idea, but executed it wrong).
We solved the mystery in about 45 minutes, so not too shabby for our first time.
It really had a real-life point-and-click adventure feeling to it: you just try things and see what happens. I do think that 5 people is perhaps too much, that particular mystery was for 2-6, and you really need 2 people to perform some things. With 5, one of our group did not seem to have figured out any clue but he found other things that we missed but unfortunately for him did not need. But all of us had fun in it.
For sure we will do it again, next time perhaps some more difficult one.
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