Escape from the Time Travel Lab

I remember solving this escape room years ago (with a few strangers and we all left as friends because we ended up grabbing dinner together afterwards, LOL. It was challenging and fun!

This was my first SCRAP game in a permanent location (as opposed to multi-team, ballroom-style event.) I thought the time travel conceit was clever and used to good effect. The trademark (?) SCRAP word grid was there and I didn’t yet know that it was a crutch they relied on all the time. Even still it didn’t weave into the story it just was there. Similarly, we had the classic hunt around the room for a hundred pieces of things to assemble the puzzles and we missed a couple so that made it take longer. The GM, Willa, was amazing though and she made the experience twice as great as it would have been otherwise.

We played this game years ago when it was open in Little Tokyo, and it was what a typical SCRAP game is like but adding in the feel of time travel. They had some unique ways they handled the time travel aspect which I still haven’t seen in other rooms I’ve done later on in my escape room journey. You definitely felt like you time traveled and had to use it as a tool in this game.