Clue

You are in the entry hall room in a game of CLUE and have to eliminate suspects, means of murder and rooms where the murder takes place. So, that’s not at all novel, but being physically in the space makes it a ton of fun. And all the branded tie-in works well.

From negotiating the way to actual rooms from the game, to incorporating the game pieces into the function and design of the space, they did a terrific job.

GM was sweet and really helped us enjoy the room. There are a few flaws in clueing which she had to guide us through.

The most difficult aspect is a few solutions aren’t intuitively arrived at and one clue is so vague that, apparently, almost everyone misses it. But the rest was fun, linear, and clearly clued.

It is very linear. With more than two or three people, most of the group would have nothing to do most of the time

The building is easy to drive right by and miss that there’s a Breakout sign on it. Even as we were pulling around back to park, my wife kept insisting we were at the wrong place because so many signs were saying the building was something other than an Escape Room.

Lots of free parking behind the building, which is also where you enter from.

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Pretty easy overall, but the change of format did let them work in a couple of puzzle types and whole-team challenges that would not necessarily make sense in a “traditional” escape room. Several of these are presented in a genuinely amusing fashion. We had fun.

It seemed sufficiently Clue-esque to us!

Great GM support, as we did encounter a malfunction.

It is different in the sense of not really being an “escape” room, but you solve puzzles to open new spaces and solve more puzzles. Eventually you have enough information to “make an accusation” as in the board game, then you win (or lose) accordingly.

Mr. Boddy doesn’t want to be murdered, so you have an hour to investigate and prevent the crime before it happens by identifying the classic Clue trifecta of suspect, location, and weapon.

Fewer puzzles than a typical escape room, but still fun. The endgame involves doing exactly what you expect to do in a game of Clue: saying who, where, and what weapon.

Good mix of things that seem low tech but are really high tech and things that are just high tech. Everything makes sense in the context of the story.

The room has two parallel tracks that come together (no enforced separation of the teams, you can go back and forth) so two pairs of solvers would be able to make progress.

It is literally about murder, although I guess if they are old enough to play Clue the board game then they are old enough to play Clue the escape room.

One somewhat elaborate prop was only partially working: the right thing went in, and the prop activated, but nothing came out. The GM was able to move us forward with minimal disruption.

There is one “dexterity” puzzle but it isn’t difficult.

Should be mostly accessible inside, but getting inside may be a bit tough as there is no working elevator and the game spaces are upstairs. There is a back door that might be accessible. One puzzle relies on color matching in a way that even our team members who are not colorblind had trouble telling a couple of the shades apart, but there did not seem to be any risk of “failing” due to retrying this, and we got it eventually.

Seems like there are parking lots in front and back of the building (we arrived via rideshare). The ground floor is a medical practice of some sort so you go upstairs / around the back to get to the lobby of the escape room.

It was definitely linear, and also different than other games I’ve played.

Loved the set… felt like you were in the mansion.

Staff was ok… GM didn’t really sound excited to help and when there was a puzzle/clue that was figured out before we did anything… I wish we would have been told not to worry about continuing to figure out what it does. Took a lot of our time off. Also… stingy with clues. We aren’t big clue users and have become more and more aware of using them, but this place didn’t really want us using clues. Or at least, that’s how it felt.

Such a cool experience. A different type of escape room.

Not particularly hard, but we were overthinking and wasted quite a bit of time so we didn’t waste our ‘accusation’. … to be sure we had it correct.

Nothing broken, but there was a puzzle already solved when we entered…