Wizardry

Wizardry at PanIQ Room Sydney didn’t live up to expectations, mainly because the puzzles were far too vague and often left our group with little idea of what to do next. There was a real lack of direction from one puzzle to the next, so we ended up burning through a lot more clues than we usually do just to keep things moving. The experience felt more like guesswork than a fun challenge. While the room itself looks impressive and is clearly inspired by Harry Potter, the gameplay suffered because many tasks simply didn’t make sense. Our GM was helpful last time we visited, but on this occasion, it seemed like he just wanted to get it over with and go home, which only added to our frustration. Altogether, it wasn’t as enjoyable or well run as other escape rooms we’ve done, unless you’re in it purely for the set design, it’s hard to recommend this one.

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Good room, well themed and great GM. Some puzzles were a bit confusing.

As a Harry Potter fan, this room did not disappoint. Great setting with some impressive mechanics corresponding to the puzzles. Limited use of padlocks, which I really liked. The clues given through written notes were a good attempt to maintain immersion. I saw reviews mentioning puzzles that rely on screens and videos, which could be time-consuming—but for us, they felt more immersive than boring. Overall, a very good experience.

Pretty good. Could do with some more variety in how clues are presented, though some of the puzzles had interesting interactive bits.

5/10

This is room is just ok in my opinion, a lot of the items you find come in the form of ambigious clues written on parchment. There's a lot of guesswork needed for a large majority of the puzzles when trying to figure out what to do next. Aesthetically the room looks great, taking inspiration from Harry Potter.

I found this room to be extremely frustrating. The first task to get in the room didn’t work and the GM had to go through the back door to be able to open the front door and let us in. The puzzles were not intuitive and some didn’t make any sense at all. One puzzle required you to watch a screen for clues but it was on a loop so there was no way to know when it started and it took ages to play through. This took a lot of time that was wasted because we couldn’t do anything else at the same time. I prefer not to get clues, but had to ask for so many of them because the puzzles just didn’t make any sense. Some triggers were extremely sensitive which also made us take longer than needed because we had to keep doing it over and over until it finally worked. Really poor experience, felt like they were trying to make the room harder by just not giving the players enough information.