Sherlock Holmes & Beautiful Mind

Writing this review with the caveat that the staff treated us with the utmost kindness and was juggling multiple groups at the same time. My group completed this room after Area 51, where we already encountered some issues with sensors not working, so we were a little jaded with how this experience would turn out. The room started off promising, with most of the puzzles going above and beyond your typical lock and key. However, about halfway through, the story got lost on me. There were a couple of times where the puzzles required outside knowledge and we experienced the same situation of sensors not working. Not sure if our group just had bad luck. We got out with plenty of time to spare but had to communicate with our game master most of the time due to the glitches.

First off - the staff here are AMAZING and super helpful. The rooms are also beautifully designed and theoretically very fun to play. I love rooms that don’t heavily rely on padlocks and this room was fully triggered by tech. And that was the issue. Multiple solves didn’t fire correctly, causing us to double-think what were otherwise very straightforward solves and waste a ton of time. Our game master was deeply apologetic and blamed the heavy rain we’re experiencing today in LA on the issues, so I imagine this would’ve been really fun on a clear and sunny day… we just had bad luck.

My favorite room so far! The mystery element kept us hooked until the very end.

The room itself is fine, pretty standard of an escape room and puzzles. The story wasn’t great though and felt very disconnected from Sherlock Holmes. It felt like this was another room that got poorly re-themed.

The game was kinda boring to do because nothing about it really screams much of a mystery in an escape room. Kinda disappointed

Not remotely Sherlock. The first room is pretty with some interesting tech, but the story is just... so messy and takes a bizarre turn that was extremely strange and disappointing.

This room was not my favorite. Getting started was a little confusing, but as soon as we did it didn't take much to figure out the room. We escaped, so we were happy about that.

This was one of the weirdest rooms I've ever done. The plot itself is really bizarre--we're going INSIDE Sherlock Holmes's mind??--but when you get inside there are a bunch of really weird and creepy visuals, and bizarre puzzles. That being said, it provided a challenge, and we had to use teamwork to make it all work out. Some of the puzzles were incredibly challenging. Others were a little finicky. Others were quite creepy.

The production quality of this room was realistic. It was nice to not see office ceilings! The puzzles blended really well with the storyline. There were some fun tasks we needed to perform that I’ve never experienced. Andrew was our host and he took great care of us.