Western Bank Heist

the room itself is good, but our experience was ruined by a last minute booking joining us & the game master. We tried to be kind to let the other group complete the tasks or unlock things, but they didn't offer us the same courtesy and basically took over, despite needing guidance at every step. The game master for some reason just started walking us through the entire game, giving step by step instructions without even letting us discuss what to do next. We don't understand why they did this & even asked them to stop as it was ruining the experience. On a different day, with a different group, this room likely would have been a blast - seemed like a clear flow with a good story line, but the fun just got ruined for us.

Did this room after The Dig. While it was a better designed room there is a single dexterity puzzle that is intentionally designed to fail players. You easily could waste your entire hour on it and we were told it is that way purposefully. “50 percent of our teams finish it, and 50 percent don’t” is literally what we were told. After we completed the room, we were told that even a literal baby had completed it. It was actually pretty funny how openly antagonistic the gamemasters were. Haha, this place is awful.

While not quite plumbing the depths of their other rooms, Western Bank Heist is certainly not a must-do room. The freshest of their rooms here, laminated materials were still showing their age and props and puzzles were worn and seemingly needed to be manually cleared by GM upon completion. I felt like there were some clever things going on in here, with a slightly more logical & open solve path. HOWEVER: This room features the single most obnoxious, frustrating time sink of a physical challenge I have ever experienced in nearly 100 rooms. My obvious frustration prompted our GM to helpfully chime in that “50% of teams fail this, you’re just going to have to figure it out” We figured it out; but lucky for you, you don’t have to! Spend your time doing something fun elsewhere in the city!