The Crystal Mine

Wait, but if I’m mining and you’re crafting, then that means… What a surprisingly adorable little mine adventure! Having now played every SINGLE Padlock’d room, it’s sometimes tricky to know what you’re gonna get with them and when posed with a kid-friendly run of the mill experience like The Crystal Mine, I honestly thought it was gonna be a bit of a bummer. But what I found instead was a small-scale, well dressed escape room that actually came with a lot of charm. While the puzzles were relatively simple, that didn’t detract from the experience as a whole, there were precious minerals to be mined and friendships to be made and by God, did we achieve both. It’s hard to pin point exactly what it is that made this one memorable, could’ve been the company, could’ve been the delirium, could’ve been the friendly staff, who’s to say? All I know is that I had a really fun time and got given a really cool collectable pin at the end. I’m a simple man. 7.2/10 🔏🧩

Fun escape, with some different puzzles! Found it overall relatively basic gameplay.

Quite a small room with relatively easy clues to solve considering the difficulty rating. Great for families. Quality props / good feel.

Nicely decorated but very small room and not much to do

Fun for families or first timers.

I didn’t mind this room. I had to really use my head for one of the puzzles but other than that, it was definitely on the easier side. I think this is a good room for beginners (although the difficulty is 4/5).

A bit tricky for the first puzzle as you don't know where to start (amazingly thought out though) I liked the way the escape room is put. Everything relates to the theme.

We had high hopes for this room after so many stellar rooms from Padlock’d, however this room was subpar. This room had a unique theme and was ascetically pleasing with some cool technological puzzles. However it lacked any sense of a story line and there were several puzzles that needed additional signposting or pen and paper available to solve. As this room is located at their other venue it is very tiny, although the space was used relatively well. With proper signposting and working puzzles (there was a whole puzzle we didn’t get to interact with due to a breakage) I would say difficulty was more like a 2.5/5. Overall some room for improvement in this game. We’d give it a 3/10.

A few things didn’t work. The game master had to push a button to open 1 thing then use a bolt cutter for something else because the padlock wouldn’t undo even though we had the right combination

Great new room, nice decoration. Struggled a bit to start with and make sense out of all the given items and clues, but once we got going and knew where to start it was pretty easy and pretty straightforward. Honestly, it could probably have a few more puzzles in there and a little bit more story, as it is more based on decoration and theme than anything else. But anyway, it is a nice room and a solid addition to Padlockd‘s rooms :)