The Inventor's Enigma

Although Escape Artist Greenville’s rooms are largely great, this was my least favorite room at an otherwise phenomenal day of escapes. Some of the puzzles just didn’t click with us. There were also just times where we didn’t know what we were doing when interacting with a puzzle only to realize we needed to see a completely different part of the room or needed more items. Love the giant colorful invention and I’m jelly that our tour guide got transported to jelly!

Other highly rated rooms at Escape Artist (Starlight Motel, Castle Fluffendor) get all the attention, but for those who value puzzle quality over actors and extra immersion, the Inventor's enigma is every bit as good. Solid puzzles that slowly rise in difficulty and multiple rooms make this a really great experience.

Very fun room. We love Escape Artist and have enjoyed all of their rooms so far. Our GM Audrey did a great job being in character and helping with a few nudges. I felt all the puzzles were straight forward and fit the theme. Only one puzzle felt like it didn't fit the theme but we found out later it was a holdout from a previous room. After learning that, the puzzle in question makes complete sense. Couple of cool fun puzzles that we have seen before elsewhere but done in a creative way that fit the theme. Highly recommend Escape Artist.

I really really enjoyed this room slot. The set and prop design absolutely took my breath away. The puzzles themselves were also very creative and fun to solve.

This was our last room at this location. Out of all of them, this is our least favorite. Yuletide is our favorite. This room doesn’t flow great and we needed tons of hints. Also, there are tons of props that are useless. Basically the room is filled with distractions. But the game master was great and helped a lot! Would recommend, but not as a first room because this room doesn’t feel like the quality of the rest of Escape Artist’s rooms.

Solid like, great having a live actor to add some additional fun and immersion. The puzzles were more straight forward like the doctor room with a couple of more challenging tech focused ones, but I would say this is the 4th best out of the 5 with Yuletide Magic and Starlight Motel in the top 2.

Your standard escape room. Very cool puzzle at the end. Too short for experienced players. My personal ranking of the 5 games at the downtown location as of August '25: 1. Classified: Operation Nine Lives (just too silly not to be my #1 here. No flaws, but it's too easy with 4, I think.) 2. Starlight Motel (excellent flow and plotting, tight with good acting moments, puzzles were just OK - a superior game to Classified, but silliness wins :) ) 3. Yuletide Magic (fun, surprisingly good puzzles and Christmasy vibes) 4. Dr. Fratelli's Cabin (Very (too) easy! A great puzzle toward the end. Good beginner game... or solo game. We finished in 24 mins as 4 people. Skippable if you're low on time) 5. Inventor's Enigma (A unique puzzle at the end, but moat puzzles were a bit simple. Relatively easy overall, might be a good beginner room. Skippable if you're low on time)

GM Connor was perfect for the room. Great vibes, really cool setup and puzzles, a little linear at times

A solid game, though not one that stands out to me - it's similar to good games elsewhere. Puzzles made sense, set was interesting to look at.