Defend the Magic AcademyOmventure - ScarboroughEscape roomIRLMy family did pretty badly in this room and that negatively influenced our experience but I'll try to be fair in this review. There were some imaginative puzzles but they were almost all sequential/linear so even 4 of us were more people than we needed and 3 would probably have been better. The max. 8 that they list is ridiculous. They say that paper & pencil are not allowed in the room but as an older person with a weak memory, I will disregard that next time I do one of these. The one part (that we got to) that allowed a few puzzles to be solved in parallel required remembering a sequence of objects, something that I would find hard to do while two other people are calling out the same objects. My wife wasn't happy with the dim light and that did add to the challenge but an argument could be made that the puzzles were designed with that in mind. I didn't like the way the hints were given (and we needed several). When we're stuck, I would like to be given a HINT to solve the puzzle but they just told us almost exactly what to do, making that puzzle now meaningless.
