The Pirate's Code

Puzzles 🧩: 7.5/10 Set/Wow Factor ✨: 7.5/10 Story/Immersion 🔮: 6/10 Fun Factor 🤘: 8/10 A solid local pirate themed escape room in the ByWard Market! There were plenty of puzzles to keep the four of us busy, working together or in parallel. The Pirate's code is a nice 1.5 generation room with a mix of traditional puzzles, lock and key, combination lock codes to decipher, and some automated puzzles, too. We are a bit fuzzy on what the story was exactly, but there was no mistake, we were on a pirate-y mission. Argh. 🏴‍☠️ JigSaw did a great job with the decor and build to evoke a sense of nautical, lootin' adventure and the room was in great condition. It was a bit dark in the room to read the text (we were told to use our phone flashlights if needed, and we did end up needing it) but we found all the puzzle solutions made sense and had a moderate level of difficulty. Everything related to the puzzles worked as it was supposed to, and we had a lot of fun solving them. The only technical hiccup may have been that the audio for the storyline from our protagonist did not play, but it was not crucial to escaping the room. We got out with 20 minutes to spare! We think this is one of the better rooms from JigSaw Escape Rooms, and recommend it to those in Ottawa.

Great decor and friendly staff. My only negative is being told we can use our phones as a flashlight. Rooms shouldn’t require any outside items, and there should be sufficient light or light tools in every room by default.

We had a really good time. It is a really fun game with a fair amount to do with some really interesting puzzle design. Would definitely recommend! We were disappointed that multiple things didn’t activate when we placed it correctly. Fully appreciate that sometimes it’s just one of those things but it did take the wind out of our sails slightly.

🧜‍♀️🏴‍☠️ Shiver me timbers, a Jigsaw room I actually liked!? I’ve only done two other rooms here, both of which I found lacking (Study and Diamond), but happy to say Pirate’s Code gets the emoji between the 👍 and ♥️ from me. Lots to do; would agree with the three person minimum or two enthusiasts. My friends and I were on the second to last puzzle when we ran out the clock and lemme tell you they were opening the door RIGHT as the timer hit zero, lol. We literally just needed two more minutes but yeah, HS students working minimum wage who don’t give af so heads up that you probably won’t get that extra bit of ~customer service here. Overall, a fun room, great for 3-4 people. ☠️ set was (too) dark! Staff was telling us beforehand we could use our phones as a flashlight. 👏 I liked the clear indicators when a puzzle was complete.

This game flowed well from the beginning, we immediately started working on the puzzles . It flowed well from room to room. A fun experience about the Pirate Code

We had a blast in this room! Definitely recommend.

This is an amazing escape room with an immersive theme and fantastic puzzles. Highly recommend!