Santa's Workshop - Elves on TimeoutExit Strategy GamesEscape roomIRLThis was a great room to do with my nephew who’s interested in the concept of escape rooms but is still young enough for benign themes (pirates, jungles, etc) to be a little scary. Puzzles were straight-forward and flowed well - awesome for a beginner!
EXIT: The Game - The Gate Between WorldsThames & KosmosEscape roomTabletopThis was our first Exit game, and it probably wasn’t the best to start out with. Thinking had to be completely out of the box, and many puzzles relied on going back and pulling from already completed papers, often with tie-ins that were vague at best.
Royal Society of PuzzlesRoyal Caribbean - Wonder of the SeasEscape roomIRLIt was hard to find descriptions of this game online. Essentially, there were boxes with games in them that were locked… unlock the boxes, take out the puzzles, solve the puzzles, tie the individual games back together in the last puzzle, escape. We were allowed to play with 5 ppl instead of the minimum of 6, including a couple of beginners, and we still finished with over 8 min to spare in a 45 min room. I personally prefer the full escape rooms that The Escape Game made for some of the other RC ships, but Puzzle Break did an ok job of this (didn’t mind the $10 price tag, but would have preferred to have seen it free).
