Mystery at Cook Manor

This is somewhere between a thumbs down and a like for me. If there were a rating between those two, that’s probably where I’d land. I tend to err on the side of giving a room the benefit of the doubt, though, so I initially gave this one a thumbs up despite it feeling a little tired. There were lots of locks, including the super-shiny gold ones where it’s almost impossible to read the letters, which I always hate. We were required to use DVDs at one point, and they had so many fingerprints and scratches that we had trouble getting them to actually play. One item that was supposed to become visible after opening a lock fell without us hearing it and rolled under a table. The walkie-talkie hint system also made it very difficult to hear and communicate with the game master. The more I write this, the more I realize I’m changing my rating to a thumbs down. This was the first room I brought my friend to, and it just wasn’t as fun or engaging as I had hoped it would be. Several of the puzzles weren’t particularly intuitive, and the lighting was so dim that some visual clues were genuinely difficult to see. There were a couple of interesting elements, but overall, this one feels like it needs a refresh or may simply be ready to be retired.

I enjoyed the unique theming of this room, and some of the fun props we got to interact with. Some very fun puzzle design as well, especially with some of the ahas.

Fun room. A little too intense for kids.

Everything worked! Staff was nice! Not a terrible room by any means but on the easier side. Not particularly remarkable after you’ve done a few escape rooms. We’ll still go check out their other rooms.

We took on this room as a 2-person husband/wife team and had a great time. The atmosphere/ambience in the room was great, and the puzzles were interesting and fun to solve. Our GM was great and helped get us out of our own way a couple times when we needed it. The room is a nice mix of physical/mechanical puzzles and some tech... definitely would recommend.

Fun take on a who done it room. Lots of puzzles with solid clueing

A spooky and supernatural mystery to get your juices flowing! I am glad that we chose this of our three rooms in our mini escape room marathon. The story was great and really help set the scene for what we were about the discover. The set was more on the simpler side compared to the other rooms in their collection but it was still impressive with some nice surprising touches put in to keep you on your toes. The puzzles were great and everyone was able to play to their strengths and focus on their favorite types of puzzles to get us through the room. Overall this is a great room to start with and then move on to either of the other two rooms. I know that the space themed room is also there but save that for later and bring a bigger team.

This room involved some unexpected “tech” elements that kept it interesting! It was a close calls and the game master was kind enough to give us an unprompted clue to get us to a buzzer beater escape!

This game was fun. 2 of my 4 team players were very new to escape rooms, and they had a lot of fun figuring out the puzzles. The puzzles all made sense and were creative and fun.