Lab RatHatch EscapesEscape roomIRLstellar. real cool idea & well executed. could use 50% more/harder puzzles since we escaped so quickly squeaky clean, but a pretty singular room
The Nest [Immersive Theatre]Hatch EscapesEscape roomOther it’s not ~not~ an escape room, but the puzzles are minimal—it’s not about that apparently. when we got out i asked the GM, “did we win??” and she responded, “that’s how you know you didn’t.” great design, some fun surprises, & we got choked up at the end.
Irvine School of Wizardry and the Goblin's SecretsHidden DonkeyEscape roomIRLone of the best set decs. puzzles were pretty easy & scavenger hunty, and we needed one hide-and-seek hint which was annoying, so not a clean escape, but def worth doing
Irvine School Of Wizardry And The Dragon WandHidden DonkeyEscape roomIRLeven easier than their other room. very easy & scavenger hunt-y but def worth doing. some cool magic tricks
Jack The RipperMaze Rooms - Culver CityEscape roomIRLthe owner Curtis let us come back after i got food poisoning last time, & we escaped squeaky clean! also v easy but lots to do. one puzzle lock opened on its own. Meg was great and talks so fast!
The Dragon's LairMaze Rooms - Culver CityEscape roomIRLthe owner Curtis let us come back after i got food poisoning last time, & we escaped squeaky clean! v easy. one technical difficulty but then it resolved itself. Meg was great and talks so fast!
Activate [Interactive Arcade]Activate - Scottsdale (Paradise Valley)Escape roomOther not an escape room but v cool. better than Dave & Buster’s. wish they had alcohol
AvalancheMaze Rooms - Robertson BlvdEscape roomIRLone of the coolest set pieces i’ve ever seen design-wise. great work 👌
ZodiacFox in a Box ChicagoEscape roomIRLwe did 3 straight rooms here & RAILED every one: Zodiac 33:31, The Bank 32:15, & The Prison 50:23, for an average of 38:43. all clean. this one had a great gimmick to start us off, a little cramped for 6 people, but some cool individual tasks which is always fun. also the GMs here are great & thoughtful. one drew us personalized postcards
The BankFox in a Box ChicagoEscape roomIRLwe did 3 straight rooms here & RAILED every one: Zodiac 33:31, The Bank 32:15, & The Prison 50:23, for an average of 38:43. all clean. this one was supposedly the hardest, but we did it the fastest. also a little cramped w/ 6 people, but lots of puzzles, and having to use flashlights the whole time was cool & on-theme. also the GMs here are great & thoughtful. one drew us personalized postcards
The PrisonFox in a Box ChicagoEscape roomIRLwe did 3 straight rooms here & RAILED every one: Zodiac 33:31, The Bank 32:15, & The Prison 50:23, for an average of 38:43. all clean, but this was the only one not ~squeaky~ clean cuz the GM gave us an unsolicited clarification that we had already opened something. this one was the supposedly the 2nd hardest but felt the hardest / took the longest. definitely cramped with 6 people again, and there were a lot of complicated things to do, but creative design & fun also the GMs here are great & thoughtful. one drew us personalized postcards
Wonderland EscapeThe Clever Cat Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLdid 3 rooms here back-to-back solo, & this one was not a clean escape since i needed 1 hide-and-seek clue & 1 point in the right direction on a puzzle—i was stoning. this one could use a refurbishing since things are peeling off the walls, and some painted numbers are faded, but even the frustrating puzzles are on-theme w/ Alice, and the woman working here was great
The DollhouseThe Clever Cat Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLdid 3 rooms here back-to-back solo, & this escape wasn’t clean either bc i needed to be told where the very first clue was hidden after 10 minutes. it also took me 10+ min to do a standard jigsaw, so it realistically only took me 25 min of gameplay since there weren’t many puzzles. this one could also use some refurbishing re: faded painted numbers, & i would really advise eliminating the first hiding place, but spooky
Mission: Save RudolphThe Clever Cat Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLfirst reviewer??! did 3 rooms here back-to-back solo, & this one could use some iterating on a one frustratingly unclear clue, and the first lock was openable without the right combo, but a fun original theme, and the woman working here was great
The BirdMyssTic RoomsEscape roomIRLthis is my least favorite of the 3 MyssTics despite being their highest rated, but it’s such a high floor, dude. a little cramped w/ multiple ppl, and it’s a little inundating w/ info, but still a blast w/ some creative stuff. not a clean escape cuz we got one hide-and-seek hint to find a cypher, plus two unsolicited nudges that we were on a wrong puzzle & that we had already found a key without realizing yet, but given how much time we had left i really wish those weren’t handheld. firm believer that it’s our responsibility to comb thru everything then push thru the head-banging stuff, but all that time can still be well spent since we’re setting up dominos to fall fast later. tl;dr who cares, everyone needs to do all of these rooms
Ghost LightMyssTic RoomsEscape roomIRLthese folks don’t miss. this is a really cool, singular idea with a lot of magic. we had a buzzer-beater photo finish w/ 3 of us (1 who we just met that night), but we got 2 correction hints (for puzzles we understood but executed wrong), so it wasn’t clean, but i didn’t have the heart to tell our game master not to give unsolicited hints this time, so it wasn’t their fault.
Montauk ProjectMyssTic RoomsEscape roomIRLstellar. i’m v biased bc i love Stranger Things, but i think this is Mysstic’s best room, and it’s a Top 5 for me all time, currently Top 2, & i’ll save my next Superboost for it unless it gets beat within the month. we got one unsolicited instruction for the final button when we had a ton of time to spare, so that was mildly annoying, but they always mean well, and it didn’t detract. we only had 2 of us (and it was my sister’s first room EVER), but we BLEW thru Phase 1, got roadblocked in Phase 2 by one technical confusion, & Phase 3 had some really cool puzzles i’ve never seen before. all in all, an easy two-person escape clean 👍
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