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School of Magic

School of Magic

The Mystery Rooms - Melbourne

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Pretty fun room! Sounds like they’ve had a revamp since some of these other reviews, making the rooms more cohesive. The puzzles aren’t particularly difficult, but some can be fiddly, we had a few stupid moments where we just didn’t use our heads, mainly because some of the answers truly are “that simple”. Great beginners room, if you’re in here and struggling to figure out a puzzle, just remember it will be the simplest answer!
The Last Of Them

The Last Of Them

Rush Escape Game - St Kilda

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The storyline was clear enough, except the end was actually quite unrelated (you think you’re trying to escape and then suddenly there’s an antidote thing going on) , and the rooms were pretty cool. Some of the puzzle elements took a bit too long to make the connections but that’s okay. It isn’t a lot of puzzles, more just complex sections. When I reflect on it there really isn’t many to solve. Not scary, but obviously horror themed. It was decent fun.
hackSaw: Remastered

hackSaw: Remastered

Rush Escape Game - Chadstone

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Room was fun, had some creepy elements but nothing actually scary. We surprised ourselves at how quickly we managed to get through it, but unfortunately weren’t granted the record because we had done a similar room at a different location, a bit disappointing because it had been a while and it wasn’t that similar! Another one of those rooms with lots of start points so if you have the numbers, split off to get through it fast. 4.5 difficulty is of course rated that way for people who haven’t done many rooms, but there’s nothing particularly challenging in here, and has all the standard kinds of puzzles. If you’ve done more than a handful of rooms you’ll feel this sits at more of a 2.
Clockworks

Clockworks

EscapeXperience

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The theming was cool but could lend itself to being so much more interesting, not actually having the room “travel in time” was a missed opportunity. Some of the puzzles didn’t quite work, particularly a shadow one that was illegible. This room being the most difficult doesn’t quite make sense, the burlesque room was much harder. For a room that has complex puzzles, it is weird when some of the answers are shockingly dumb, with this being “hard” we were expecting to work with more challenging puzzles, so we ended up always spending more time thinking it was more than just “read it backwards” or something dumb. It was fine, but probably comes second in my mind at this venue
The Basement

The Basement

Singapore Discovery Centre - Black Lake Facility

  • Escape room
  • IRL
A genuinely cool experience. The venue offers four rooms branching from the same key event. The room was massive, four total rooms on different floors. Puzzles were mostly intuitive and something you can find yourself going through quickly, not many moments of lacking direction. Only unfortunate thing was that the rooms experience didn’t actually connect to the story that you’re introduced to at the start, just seems like a series of puzzles to do without much connection. Also the magnet is so strong it’s virtually impossible to detach things from it. Overall, an excellent time!
Gretel & Hansel​

Gretel & Hansel​

Captivate Escape Rooms

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This room was fine, the set itself was underwhelming, but there were a few good starting points which meant we had some direction. There were some difficult elements, like a puzzle box hidden inside a cabinet that we unlocked which we would’ve missed if we didn’t make sure to check all the nooks and crannies. The final puzzles were bizarre, needing you to go back and use an element with no indication that that was what to do, as well as a red herring phone and word clue that was so terribly misspelled that we assumed the misspelling was part of it- nope! I wish there was a “meh” option between thumbs up and down. I didn’t have a bad time, but I certainly wouldn’t recommend the room.
Wednesday (Addams)

Wednesday (Addams)

Captivate Escape Rooms

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The room is fine, some unfortunate elements though. The puzzles are decently fun, lots of riddles. However there were a few instances where we would solve something, a sound would play to confirm, and then it was difficult to figure out what had unlocked- we had to call and ask. We also managed to solve the mystery of the room without actually completing it, meaning that we then had to find the puzzles we missed after the big climax was already resolved. There were also many red herrings, or defunct puzzles (not sure) that wasted time and effort. Whilst a red herring can be good fun, having more than 5 is somewhat ridiculous. The theming is good, some of the mechanics were cool, but the unfortunate parts dampened the experience.
停尸房 (恐怖季) [The Morgue (Haunted)]

停尸房 (恐怖季) [The Morgue (Haunted)] - CLOSED

Xcape Singapore

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This room was frustrating and not in the good way. There was no indication of a starting point, so it took some time to get going. We were significantly delayed by puzzle mechanics not working. Even having to call in and have the game masters unsure of why it wasn’t working. There was some cool moments like a release of items from the ceiling, but I wonder if you had more than 2 people, they may have been hit on the head with falling items. We also had a moment of fright when an unlocked door locked again (with no purpose) separating us. Had an overall bad time.
Paranormal Activities

Paranormal Activities

The Great Escape - Carlton [prev. Lost Australia Station]

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

The Doll House

The Doll House

Escape Reality - Rowville

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Bit of a random room, some of the puzzles got on my nerve, including counting certain items, and then finding out you’re only meant to count some of them. Also, hidden parts of the game that you are given no indication to look for. I do think there is a disadvantage to being short in this game, as some of the visual elements (optical illusion) couldn’t be seen from my height (I’m average female height 5’4) . Once again some AI imagery used, including ones that correspond with riddles, unfortunately the riddles don’t actually line up with the images so it was a bit of trial by elimination. The mechanics all work properly which is always impressive, but the stories just feel a bit lacking. Spoiler from here: Final room ends with a code you have to put into a bunch of lockboxes until you find the right one, massive time eater
The Cigar Room

The Cigar Room

Escape Reality - Rowville

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Game Of The Dragon

Game Of The Dragon

Rush Escape Game - South Yarra

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The room was themed beautifully, however the lack of linear puzzles left us trying to figure out what we were meant to do next often. A few puzzles are absolute time eaters, especially when you’re a smaller group (we were just 2). We lost quite a bit of time due to an item that was attached via carabiner- when we have done other rush escapes they have told us to treat it as a chain link and that undoing the carabiner would be considered cheating, after about 10 minutes we radioed to ask if we were allowed to detach it, and of course we were. No puzzles were particularly hard, they were just hard to find.
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