Murder In Marylebone / Mystery in the Mansion

Just thinking about this room infuriates me. My brother and I (both experienced escape roomers) failed this room but I don’t even like to consider it a loss because it was pretty much unsolvable. Multiple puzzles malfunctioned and requires our GM to physically come into the room to fix them. One of those puzzles wouldn’t work after we had input the correct code several times and then made us rethink everything and try a bunch of incorrect codes, thus wasting our time. The worst part was towards the end when we had to try and extract a key from a device on the wall using a magnet. The magnet was NOT strong enough!! After we lost and our GM came in, I brought up that stupid magnet and she said, “yeah…. I’ve spoken to the owners multiple times about it not being strong enough but they never do anything about it.” Ummm…. WHAT?!?!?!?! Charging people to play an unplayable room is the worst escape room offense I can think of. Don’t even waste your time and money on this ridiculous room.

The puzzles made sense and were decent but it was hard to get started. We had a hard time getting a hint at one point and there were weren’t really any triggers between puzzles to keep the game flowing. Again just missing the moments/clues to move from current solved puzzle to the next one.