The Anatomist

Great room. Good hosting, very nicely themed puzzles and kept us busy. Loved the atmosphere, recommended if in Edinburgh

The Anatomist is a broadly non-linear room featuring multiple physical spaces and an assortment of puzzle types. While this room is more spooky than scary, there were a couple of jump scares that caught us off guard. It's also worth noting that at least one member of the team will need to be comfortable with going into a confined space. The first room is well themed in the style of an old study, another features more creepy decor: think body parts in jars, a dead body on a slab and all sorts of other sinister imagery. It was extremely atmospheric and ramped up the urgency for escaping the room as quickly as possible. There was a fun selection of puzzles, including some more traditional ones that involved placing items in a specific order, using weights and unlocking a cryptex. I personally loved how the puzzles within the final room came together, and the multi-layered nature of some tasks. There is a lot to tackle, so your team will definitely benefit from splitting up to take on different tasks. Overall, this was a solid room, with plenty of puzzles to keep us busy. Difficulty-wise, it was less of a challenge than The Deacon's Cabinet, but not overly easy. We escaped after around 45 minutes, which is personally the sweet spot for me. —— A full review of all of Escape The Past’s experiences can be found here: https://escapepuzzler.com/escape-the-past-edinburgh-uk-feature/

The room was fun with nonlinear puzzles and had nice theming. Some of the puzzles were not particularly intuitive and we needed some nudges, but overall would recommend.

This was a very well themed room, and people who enjoy rooms that are a little eerie will enjoy this one. There were some clever puzzles, and out game master was great. Only nitpick is that some of the gadgets in the room were not necessarily intuitive to use or open, so needed nudges on those. But definitely recommend doing this room. You will have a fun time!

wonderful! atmosphere was perfect, story was entertaining and logical, and had lots of fun and unique puzzles! one of my favorite puzzle experiences was here - will stick with me for a while!

Excellent room. One of my favorites and super glad we got to do it during our visit to Edinburgh!

A visit with my family of 5 (3 teenagers). Fabulous decor in line with the storyline and a mainly non linear set up at times which is good for bigger parties like us as we were all kept busy. Puzzles were a good, mixed variety and host was in character and friendly - she did give us a lot of clues (I prefer to ask for mine) but to be fair I'm not sure we'd have got out in time without them. There was a car park right next door for easy access.

This game looked really good, pretty immersive set. The puzzles weren’t too difficult but required some teamwork and some out of the box thinking. Not a lot of technical aspects but that suits the olden day theming. Briefing was given in character, the GM was great and very friendly.