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You find yourself trapped in a strange Laboratory belonging to the mad scientist Dr Crowl. As you search the room, you quickly notice a bomb and a timer counting down. You also see several peculiar objects. Some you recognize, like the 3D printer pen, the burning laser or the vat of slime. Others you have no idea. They must be the key to survival, but can you figure it out in time?
All ratings (475)
Very positive
12 escape rooms
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
Mechanical
37 escape rooms
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.
s
128 escape rooms
There’s a lot of work but it is super fun haha
102 escape rooms
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.
Not the best set, puzzles were the standout here.
No
Medium
Mechanical
Not scary
No
No
Not at all
Yes
Easy
402 escape rooms
Very solid, puzzle heavy room. One thing in particular that we've NEVER seen anywhere before that wowed the shit out of us.
S
66 escape rooms
Had a good time. A little older room, but happy that they can add puzzles to the room if you’re going too fast.
335 escape rooms
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).
No
Hard
Mechanical
4
Not scary
Yes
No
Not at all
Yes
Easy
60 escape rooms
Would definitely recommend this, especially if puzzles are a main focus for you!
This is likely one of my favorite escape rooms, puzzle wise! Good flow, and so many puzzles!
Staff were amazing!
Yes
Really cool how they will tailor the number of puzzles to how many people and how fast you’re working through it.
Medium
Mechanical
3
We had 3 but I feel like 2-4 would work well.
Not scary
16
No
No
Not at all
Some aspects could be tricky but I’m sure the GM would adjust accordingly or someone else in your group can assist.
Yes
Easy
120 escape rooms
This was a great room! Very puzzle heavy. The puzzles are a Medium challenge level I’d say, but the difficulty comes from trying to complete so many puzzles with the time that you have. I really loved how they could tailor the difficulty level for your group, adding more tracks to solve if you were breezing through this room or have a larger group. I think every escape room should be like this, so that more experienced players aren’t paying full price to finish a room in half the time. We came into this as 2 experienced players and they started us with 3 of the 6 tracks since we were such a small group. Pretty quickly they added the 4th and 5th tracks because we were solving things pretty speedily. Then our GM asked us if we wanted a 6th track, but said it would be pretty tight on time. We said heck yes and made it out with only 23 seconds left!! It was the perfect challenge level for us, which made me very happy. 😃 I would highly recommend this escape room. I’ve done all 3 rooms that Brain Games offers right now and they are all so great for different reasons. You’ve got to try them all!
I really enjoyed being able to track our progress through the room by seeing all the puzzles we needed to solve on the tracking board. (I also very much appreciated not having to waste time trying one key/combo on all the locks until we found the right one.)
Our GM was perfect! I didn’t catch his name, but he gave us the perfect amount of nudging to ensure that we got through the room, but did not help us when we didn’t want/need it. He also did a great job putting us into the theme of the room when he gave us the intro. He really did a wonderful job.
Yes
Different just for the amount of puzzles there were for you to solve.
Hard
Medium difficulty puzzles, but Hard to complete them all in the given amount of time.
Mechanical
4
For most people probably a group of 4 is good. If you are a real escape room enthusiast who wants to be challenged, though, go with just 2 players! It’s awesome!
Not scary
A couple loud noises that could make someone jump out of surprise, but other than that nothing scary.
12
No
No
Not at all
Pretty fully accessible.
Yes
Easy
They have a small, private lot.
172 escape rooms
I have a real soft spot for this game, and proof that some older lock and key rooms are keepers. Minimal design and just an onslaught of really fun, cleverly designed smaller-scale puzzles, representing a wide range of puzzle types, with a fun overall conceit for establishing the puzzle sequences.
