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Steal and Escape

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IRL

We are beginners. This is our second escape room, so far we are 2 for 2 but I have picked rooms that the reviews have said are great fun and not too hard. Our “team” is mid-40’s mom and dad and two teen girls 13&14yo. My husband and I both grew up playing video games with no internet to look up how to do stuff, so I expect maybe we can solve puzzles pretty well in general, and our daughters are pretty quick too. Maybe we should have waited to do this room, because apparently it is very sophisticated and a rare gem, technology wise. We might be ruined for all the others now! The room was fantastic. It was packed with puzzles. Of course, I haven’t seen many, but wow the style and structure and tech of it was nothing short of amazing. I got my daughters started on puzzles (they figured out a lot on their own too) while I figured out others or studied things for later, and my husband was off looking in a whole different area, I feel like I could do it again since I missed so much- but there were times we HAD to converge and work together to finish goals which was also really fun! Great bonding time! We had a thrill all the way home! There were some puzzles that once started, would be appropriate to be finished by very young, smart kids. I think my 6yo nephew could have done two or three once an adult had figured out what to do, maybe if you have a kid in your party, that will help you decide. I would say four people plus a kid if you do that though, you’ll have to stay with them to help. The other people will be busy for sure too!

Western

Lockdown Escape Rooms - Hillcrest

Escape room
IRL

We just finished this escape room. It was our first one ever! We chose it because the reviews said it was better for beginners. You get three hints if you want them, and we did use one at the end because we were running out of time but we did escape with four minutes left. Two adults and two kids aged 13&14. Was exciting and fun the whole time. Took brains and ingenuity. Very fun.

Winchester Mystery House - Mansion Tour

Winchester Mystery House

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Other

If you have a chance or if you are going through San Jose, make a point to stop at the Winchester Mystery House! It is very neat! The sprawling “home” is located in a normal looking city, next to apartments, but it is like nothing you have ever seen. If you have watched “Stephen King’s Rose Red” you might know it was loosely based off of this home, and the heiress Sarah Winchester. The home is huge. There aren’t any spoilers about that, there are thousands of beautiful windows, intricate detailing, state of the art in its day, and not a penny pinched on detail and decor choices. The wallpaper! It was GORGEOUS. The woodwork! The stairs! The flooring! Everywhere I looked, my artists heart was soaring. The place was decorated with era accurate furniture and of course I was drooling. AND it is said to be haunted. We caught a picture that looks kinda spooky, my husband is more convinced than I am. We were out back at the Carpenter’s or black smith area and they have a light there that was on, and we were about to go find our two girls who were 12&13 at the time, they had wandered further on to look at something else- and we were joking that “if theres a ghost, shut off this light.” And the light went off. I’m not kidding at all. And we were kinda like oh that’s a fluke that’s a fluke if there’s really a ghost turn the light back on, and it turned on- and we ran off to find the kids because they are all into it and had their ghost meter things and brought them back and of course it didn’t do it again but it was pretty cool, I haven’t had something like that happen before. We did a whole “ghost Christmas” type thing for the kids in 23. They also had different tours that included spookier parts of the home, so we ended up taking two tours in one day and we left for lunch in the middle. It was worth it and still very interesting and the kids were a bit annoyed but I enjoyed both. The spookier one was more entertaining for my lil ghost hunters (because catering towards that type of thing) and the regular tour was informational and I very much enjoyed it. But I enjoyed both, very much. And I loved looking at all the detail! Every inch of that place was incredible.

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Ody’s review

Steal and Escape

We are beginners. This is our second escape room, so far we are 2 for 2 but I have picked rooms that the reviews have said are great fun and not too hard. Our “team” is mid-40’s mom and dad and two teen girls 13&14yo. My husband and I both grew up playing video games with no internet to look up how to do stuff, so I expect maybe we can solve puzzles pretty well in general, and our daughters are pretty quick too. Maybe we should have waited to do this room, because apparently it is very sophisticated and a rare gem, technology wise. We might be ruined for all the others now! The room was fantastic. It was packed with puzzles. Of course, I haven’t seen many, but wow the style and structure and tech of it was nothing short of amazing. I got my daughters started on puzzles (they figured out a lot on their own too) while I figured out others or studied things for later, and my husband was off looking in a whole different area, I feel like I could do it again since I missed so much- but there were times we HAD to converge and work together to finish goals which was also really fun! Great bonding time! We had a thrill all the way home! There were some puzzles that once started, would be appropriate to be finished by very young, smart kids. I think my 6yo nephew could have done two or three once an adult had figured out what to do, maybe if you have a kid in your party, that will help you decide. I would say four people plus a kid if you do that though, you’ll have to stay with them to help. The other people will be busy for sure too!

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Gameplay

Everyone had a blast! Very packed with puzzles! The tech was amazing. Nothing was broken.

Atmosphere

Very immersive! Very well made! I was impressed by the technology.

Customer service

The GM went over and above to make us feel welcome.

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

The tech sets it apart I think. We have only done one other room, this one had way more puzzles and was more fast paced, everyone was working, coming together, working coming together- very fun and exciting.

Story

Very interesting story! Reminded me of Skyrim a bit, those dreadful Dwemer, definitely not as annoying!

Difficulty

Easy

I’m saying easy because we are beginners and we beat it, but it might be medium? I only have one other room to compare it to, and it was more fun, more flowing, and the puzzles made more sense, so if that equates to easier then yes, it was easier.

Game tech

High tech

Very high tech. There were some flashing lights. There were some lasers. There were lots of things that might be spoilers but the story included very high tech stuff so of course they had to put special things in!

Ideal number of players

4

I sat in my review, that if you have a little kid with you they could do some of these puzzles with an adult to get them started, and they would have a fun time. But probably 4 people is ideal, especially if one is helping a kid. There were times I got my two teen daughters going on stuff and then was just studying what might be coming up later

Scary

Not scary

One jump scare but it was awesome. I’m not sure they do it for everyone, I’m glad they did for us.

Minimum age

5

I think my nephew could have done some of the puzzles when he was 5 but he is very bright. He is 6 now and I really want my sister to visit and go to this room!