mollems
516 escape rooms
The operators said this was their easiest room; I don’t know if I agree (having played them all). It had the fewest puzzles, for sure, but the puzzles are multi-step and require good use of different skills including physical coordination of multiple team members. The physical space is small, though, so I would not recommend going in with more than 2-3 people. There is some wear and tear, which is unfortunate, but everything was still solvable. We had a good time.
Gameplay
The first puzzle starts before you actually get into the room (this is not a spoiler; it is unavoidable that this would be true, but the fact that they made a puzzle out of it was very clever). The rest of the puzzles are reasonably challenging and mostly require multiple steps.
Atmosphere
Customer service
Very friendly and enthusiastic staff.
Particularly interesting or different
No
Story
A famous painting is missing and you need to solve a bunch of puzzles to find it. That’s not particularly novel as a theme, but I was impressed by how thoroughly all the puzzles stayed on theme. I couldn’t say more without spoilers, but it would have been easy for them to make the puzzles in a different way that would have been much less tightly connected to the theme. The way they did it makes the game harder, but not in a bad way, and I respect that they didn’t take the easy way out.
Difficulty
Medium
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
2
We played with five and that was way too many. It’s a small space. That said, you do need at least two people to perform specific coordinated physical actions and I don’t think one person could reach everything at the same time.
Scary
Not scary
Minimum age
13
A lot of fragile stuff in the room and puzzles that require some degree of dexterity.
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
No
Physically active
Somewhat
A couple of puzzles require physical dexterity and/or placing and manipulating things at various heights on the walls.
Accessibility
Accessible, but see above re: physical activity.
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
Safety
Yes
