Coffee Cartel

Staff here are very cool teenagers. But the business is really chaotic and mismanaged, and it feels like the staff are left to sink or swim. It was utter chaos in the lobby through the 4 games I played, hints were spotty, and someone staff would appear in the rooms themselves to explain something that wasn't clear on the screens. Also photos not allowed in the games (womp).

Props heavily worn and/or damaged heavily to the point of important information being near unusable and lack of cues to indicate something changed.

Incredibly split on this. There are some really cool gameplay elements that were very unique and surprisingly immersive. However, the flow of the room is pretty rough and lacks a lot of cohesion for the puzzles. Some of the puzzles are needlessly complex and when solved, doesn’t feel earned imo…more like you got lucky with your guess. This is exacerbated by several visual element needing a repaint + rework because it hadn’t gotten TLC in a while. If this room received A.) a refurb B.) a slight rework, this would be a much more definitive yes.

Great set, lots of interactivity and unique elementa

Again, room theming was pretty good, and I enjoyed several of the elements of progression. Nothing was super out of the norm, but was fine

Story was forgettable, but theming was pretty solid and unique

Hard to tell if difficulty is due to good puzzles, or poor design. Imo, the latter. Several puzzles were logically stringed together and requires 4 + elements in the room to come up with solutions. This wouldn’t be so bad, except that several prop pieces were not well maintained, along with mechanical opening elements that did not indicate they were unlocked (not visually obvious either). On the other hand, some were pretty clever, but need some TLC to make even better

Some cords were too worn down to see properly, elements that opened were not loud/visible enough to tell they opened

Surprising amount of physical activity

Vision difficulties would make this room impossible. Low lighting, faded paint for color-specific puzzles, and hard-to-make out text were all issues

Fun caribbean spanish music playing the whole time to make it fun!

Kind of. That’s where I’m mixed about it. I feel like it sort of did but I didn’t understand the theme of what we were in and why we were solving what we solved. A lot of it was confusing or things didn’t make sense like you think it would. We solved a lot of the puzzles and asked for clues, but the flow didn’t makes sense to us.

It was themed, I chose the thumbs up button for the ending moreso than the beginning. we didn’t understand the beginning.

Great staff. There were some lengthy delays in getting hints and a couple of things didn’t work too well so we lost a lot of time.

At least 4, up to probably 6 or even 8 but 4-6 is probably the sweet spot

The gun shooting, there was part of the instructions warn off on the game which made it hard to read, and identifying colors was very tough at certain points and slowed us down a lot

Eh I wouldn’t recommend for ADA people