Scooby-Doo and The Spooky Castle Adventure

Could be better made given that it was scooby doo themed. Some random puzzles that didn't quite fit in with the room.

Solid puzzles, with a fun theme. Several puzzles were quite challenging. Harder than I was expecting, but by no means impossible

Summary Scooby Doo is a fun and engaging 2nd generation escape room with immersive set, tv animated hints and clues, video, lighting and sound effects. It had a wide breadth of different kinds of puzzles to solve, though no dexterity based or other physical challenges. Lots of puzzles had to be used in combination with other puzzles to resolve them. Space The space was small, but efficiently utilized. We did this room as a family of four and it was fine for us, with 4-5 adults the space would be good, but 6 would start to be cramped and 8 (the room maximum) would just be confining. Puzzles Puzzles were individually on the easy side, but many had to be used in conjunction with other puzzles which brought the difficulty up to the mid range. The final puzzle was the most challenging of all, combining multiple puzzle tropes into one large puzzle. Puzzle spacing and reuse meant that people were moving around a lot, there was usually more than one thing to solve at a time so people could go on their own to solve a puzzle when they desired. the puzzles flowed well together, and we were rarely not understanding what we needed to do next or what clues went to which puzzles. the puzzles were well themed with Scooby Doo related characters, puzzles, and clues. the puzzles were disconnected from the storyline, or at least didn't reinforce the storyline for me. puzzles also didn't spend much time on realistically fitting the real world, which many escape rooms do not so, if you aren't bothered by this don't be. for example, people wouldn't hide the combination for a safe behind a three step puzzle that eventually revealed the combination in the way that it did. Time It took two adults and two kids with a few nudges and hints the full alloted hour, and we likely needed another 5 minutes on the last puzzle to make it work out. There was a combination lock that we went through the clues to figure out, entered the combination, and the lock didn't open so we went back through and verified that it was correct, and it opened the second time. It was right, it just didn't work the first time and this cost us probably 5 minutes. The variety of puzzle types is impressive. With about 15 puzzles to solve, I didn't count this just feels like the right number, none of them repeated in type. Multiple senses were involved in puzzles, search and find, mazes, clue whodunnits, riddles, wordplay, map coordinates, you name it. This made it fun and much more challenging as there were some puzzle types that none of us were particularly good at. location In a mall next to a movie theater, we went and walked to a fun sushi boat place to eat afterwards. Lots of shopping around, difficult to find in the mall if you don't know where you are going, but we called and the employee was very helpful in finding the place. being in the south west of San Francisco, means avoiding the shady parts and there were a lot of high school and college age people around and it was quite busy in the mall when we went.

Fun room that was also good for kids. Good interactions, but some of the “solutions” were subtle and we didn’t notice something had happened. Also the storyline was somewhat weak, though the puzzles were fine. They just didn’t tie the story together. Very thematic though!

It’s a decent room, first mechanical puzzle was difficult to open and we didn’t want to use force. Should have designed it to move more easily so it doesn’t confuse the players. Theme is cute and good amount of puzzles

Really cute theme and puzzles especially for anyone who watched or enjoys scooby doo.