Inventor's Paradox

This was the definition of “fine.” The puzzles we got to do were mostly good, but they didn’t reset 2 of the puzzles. FOR OTHERS PLAYING: We walked into a dark room and rang the bell it said to ring, we did not hear from anyone for 4 minutes and then it was just a voice saying go to the next room and put our stuff down and scan the QR code if we hadn’t yet. Then there was no instruction in the next room, no like “just hang out til we call you,” or if there was in the announcement in the first room we had already walked into the second room because they unlocked the door. So we sat around wondering if the game had already begun for 10 minutes. Total immersion is fine… but like, put that in the email. “When you get there you’ll be greeted when we’re ready, so show up basically right on time, not early.” We arrived early and had tried to call ahead 3 times to say we wanted to bring another person but no one answered. There’s also no reception area so we got a free extra player even though we tried our best to pay, there was no non-game interaction with a human and that was maybe a total of 2 minutes.

This room is a mainstay of Enter the Imaginarium and carried over from the old location, and it's a good one. Good puzzles and sets, fair and well designed. I think we had 6ish people (all casual, no experts), and it was a good match for that group.

So much great detail

Tbh I really could not tell you what the storyline was and no one from my group could but the set was amazing so that really made up for it. The GM did a great job and it really was very theatrical. Good mix of puzzles with something for our group of three to work on individually almost the whole time.

Amazing room. Have done about 35 and this room was top 10, maybe 6-8th place. Theatrics were great. The set and build out was well done. I do wish the storyline was explained a bit better, didn’t exactly follow it or piece everything together after the fact. 9/10 overall and will go back for the other room based on this experience.

I loved enter the imaginarium’s first room (Chamber of Illusions), but Inventor’s Paradox didn’t quite live up to that standard. The very beginning of both games is similar, and it was less impactful the second time. Still, Inventor’s Paradox is a good, solid room with some great moments of its own 3/5

This escape room was SUPER thematic and had great set design. As soon as you enter the building, everything is gorgeously themed and you are transported into the game world. I played with a large group and we had a very positive experience. The puzzles seemed generally parallelizable and variable in style. There were rarely times where all players were standing around solving 1 puzzle. Great flow. The puzzles were also good, ranging from easy to challenging. Would highly recommend if you love escape rooms for the immersion aspect!

As soon as you enter the door, the immersion begins…and it becomes striking. The onboarding is genius - that’s all I’ll say. Lots of puzzling to keep pace (split up to conquer), and an intriguing story built-in. This game has lots of locks and boxes, being it is an older game that once was ahead of its time, but it’s truly a solid escape room adventure. We look to return to play The Mind’s Eye.