Turing Test

This was perhaps my least favorite escape room experience. I have done about 45 rooms and this was so infuriating. My group arrived 15 minutes early and the last group had accidentally taken a prop, so we started about 10 minutes late. No big deal. But the game master put tennis in the television on in the lobby and then proceeded to give us the instructions. I asked him to mute it as it was hard to hear him, he did. Off to a weird start. We get into the room and he immediately starts giving us hints. I mean immediately. He told me to pick up the phone (that I had already picked up) and dial the number. Why would that be hard to understand? I kept asking him to stop giving hints and he kept giving loud hints. He even told us to pick up a piece of paper and read it…. Yeah, we know. The PA system was so loud that the game master’s voice was distorted and it made it impossible to communicate with my group to solve the puzzles. I left with a headache. Additionally, several buttons were broken and when we shouted up to tell him it was not working he didn’t respond. I was so infuriated that he kept telling us the answers as we were solving it that I had an AWFUL time. I am paying you to let me solve a puzzle, if I don’t get to solve a puzzle, what is the point?

Cool split room structure with plenty of collaboration.

This split-start room is super cool in theory. I really wanted to love it. But our actual experience was highly disappointing. This room is different than others and we were excited for that. But it relies too much on your GM, in so many ways. Your GM has to guide you along over the speakers because you spend a lot of time waiting for others to finish their task if you already finished yours (which is not great for flow). Our GM was not great at communicating and lacked enthusiasm compared to all the great GMs we've experienced elsewhere. He also ended up rushing us through the game. Multiple times he manually completed puzzles for us because he said it looked like we were going to get it. ... We're literally paying to play the full experience?!! So we didn't feel satisfied at all because we didn't get to complete at least 4 or 5 tasks on our own. His reasoning was also that the room was hot and the A/C is broken so he didn't want us to suffer, but literally none of us had complained about being hot. It was late night and he probably just wanted us out. Puzzles were mixed. I liked some. But there were a good amount of buggy puzzles and equipment. In fact, the room I started in had a broken phone, which meant I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING. I lost at least 10 minutes. I'm not sure why the GM didn't do anything about that because he's clearly watching all of us on the cameras and it's not a difficult thing to use (it's a phone...i know how to use a phone). This broken start really dampened my personal experience from the start (and my partner because she can't do anything in her room without my room working). I tried to enjoy the rest of the game after that but yeah... Broken equipment, broken puzzles (some would also argue unspectacular and really basic), really GM-reliant but we didn't have a good GM. Really poor experience. Note: we came back for Nautilus at this location and that was also bad and buggy so our guess is that this 60out Ktown location just isn't great overall. Hollywood is great and Melrose was also really solid.

One of my all-time favorite rooms!

It was my parents’ 54th anniversary, and they had done two escape rooms before this in Amsterdam. My boyfriend and I really enjoyed doing it with them, even though they weren’t as experienced. They still had a great time, and the game master was very kind to let us finish. Knowing that it was their anniversary and that there were a few technicalities in the room, like some things that didn’t work, made it even more special. We definitely had a blast and it was a really fun experience. The puzzles were fun .

a bummer. Could have been great and probably was upon creation. Malfunctioning puzzles left us second guessing when we were doing things right. some puzzles seemed to have been canceled but left as lazy red herrings. GM working two rooms left us feeling neglected at times and unkindly rushed at other times. Cool looking rooms and enjoyable concepts of collaboration while in separate rooms but was truly disappointing.

A cool, conceptual room that’s been around long enough that the luster has worn off - don’t need more than 4 players!

The game emphasizes a lot on teamwork and communication to solve it puzzles and the way this escape room test us in solving these puzzles was very fun because this room emphasizes one player guiding the other player to the right position to solve its puzzles, an experience that I have never experienced before. I highly recommend this escape to anyone who wants to have a good experience.

Our group had so much fun with this room. Went in with low expectations but left quite satisfied. Had a rocky start as the gamemaster started us late and the room I was in had technical issues impacting gameplay and creating confusion. Overall super fun with many cool concepts and would recommend. Be prepared to start separately and communicate well!

A lot of things were broken. I’m sure this was a great escape room new but now wasn’t that enjoyable.