The Mad Scientist [prev. The Laboratory]

Done twice

A biologist, a physicist and a computer scientist walk into an escape room laboratory... This sounds like the opening to a great joke - but no joke, this was a great room! This was my 53rd escape room (47W - 6L) and I played as a group of five adult players with similar statistics. The room was well decorated, every puzzle was in tip-top condition, and the puzzles were very engaging, with even a few very novel ones! The room was non-linear and very mechanical (lock & key). I love lock and key rooms - call me a Boomer. My favorite part about this room was the task board which allowed for all five of us to work on our own task tracks (we solved one quickly so the GM opened a sixth track of bonus tasks which was awesome!). After we completed the room (19:48 remaining) it was fun to walk through the tasks with the other team members to see what they solved. Each of us having our own task tracks was nice so that everyone felt like they were fully participating. This was not a scary room (we won't do scary!), parking was easy, and the staff were very friendly and playful.

While not the strongest in theme. It maximized the number of puzzles. Straightforward 31 puzzles possible. (10 optional for smaller/slower groups). Every puzzle enjoyable and room directs you in a straightforward way from one puzzle to the next. Room also easily facilitates parallel play if your group likes to divide and conquer

This was a fun room! It was a less modern lock-based room, but I loved the simultaneous puzzle tracks on different rows, and the types of puzzles. In the middle of the game, the mad scientist game in and added the sixth row because we were doing great on time. The game was well-designed and balanced

Not bad. Puzzle heavy. Didn't get the premise during the escape but in retrospect, I see the intent. The faster you go, the more puzzles you get offered. Only managed to make it to the 4th row.

There’s a lot of work but it is super fun haha

I rate this experience a 4/5 (ck out my bio for rating system). The set and theme got 1 point. There was nothing particularly immersive about the set or exciting about the theme. The puzzles were the winner in this room and got 2 points. They were customizable based on the number of players and their experience level. There are 6 groups of puzzles and we were able to get thru 5 (pretty challenging for an experienced group of 2) and then our GM let us do the last group after we finished so we could have the full experience (so nice!!). There were so many cool and novel puzzles to complete. Each group of puzzles were presented in a very linear fashion and built upon each preceding solved puzzle which was a cool concept and flowed very nicely. I give my enjoyment factor a 1. Compared to their other rooms, this room definitely doesn't have the 'wow ' factor but if you want to practice just doing a bunch of high quality puzzles without too much set distraction, it's a worthwhile endeavor.

Very solid, puzzle heavy room. One thing in particular that we've NEVER seen anywhere before that wowed the shit out of us.

Had a good time. A little older room, but happy that they can add puzzles to the room if you’re going too fast.

Their oldest room on site, it’s a direct port from their previous location. Probably the closest one to a square-office-escape they have. All the puzzles are loosely to theme but it is VERY PUZZLE HEAVY and can be scaled to the size or speed of the team. We managed to finish the “impossible mode” (finishing all the puzzles with 2 players).