Grim Stacks: Books & Binding

The challenge was appropriate for our 7, 12, and 14 year olds. Game master Jacob was great at orienting is to this genre of family fun as this was our first. The lock and code puzzles were tricky enough to require hints, especially in the beginning. Watching the Mark Rober video on escape room tips was also useful, even if we didn't follow them faithfully. Stay organized with this one, is all I will say.

Adrien made this such a fun experience! He was enthusiastic and professional. Magic shop room with cute puzzles in a linear flow. Great for families and smaller groups.

Fun room. Challenging puzzles. Highly recommend

Lots of locks and obscure puzzles that I wasn’t really a fan of. The rooms were well decorated. The puzzle book pages was pretty worn down and were crumbling in my hands. Some elements were showing their age. Also the ending is pretty anticlimactic. Atmosphere was fun! 6/10.

Accessibility notes: - color changing lights - stair between rooms, so wheelchair users need to take an alternative route which is doable, and staff was happy to help - color based puzzle

Fun theme. the GM was great. The puzzles are basic. The ending was anticlimactic.

Was a fun room. Kind of outdated and generic but super fun

This room was decent. We got stuck on a puzzle and had to ask for help but didn’t get help for about 7 minutes. You can see this game from the outside which is cool. I would recommend this room.

This room is very clearly inspired by Harry Potter but doesn't quite nail it. I dislike multi-step cyphers for the sake of it and without any reason for them other than to make a puzzle more difficult. The ending of this room also fell flat. It should have been cool but the details around the room to reflect the ending just weren't obvious or noticeable enough. There are some minor tweaks they could have made to hit the mark better, which would have left a better impression of the room on me. Nothing in this room felt particularly special. One thing that made me feel extremely miffed is the fact that the location is on a main road and Grim Stacks includes windows that you can see through on both sides. This meant that we could see random passerbys and that random people on the street could see into the room and watch us solve puzzles or look extremely lost without much obstruction at all. This both ruins the immersion and causes distractions.

Absolutely loved this room!! Every puzzle was so fun and clever. The ending was so awesome and unexpected but it was such a good way to end a room!