Alien Encounter

Team work makes the dream work with this one so don’t play with strangers or anyone who isn’t a good communicator, short room but cool set design and fun puzzles.

I’ve done several Clue Carre rooms, but this was my first at the Kenner location. The staff member was great. The room was one of the easiest we’ve ever played - the clues flowed so you never really get stuck. It was a short room at only 45 minutes but that’s PLENTY of time to solve it. The theming was cute. Lots of fun props.

Nice sets. Decent theming. The puzzles all made sense, but were repetitive. For several puzzles you had to do the thing (which was usually some form of cross referencing info from two or more different locations) about 4 to 8 times. Doing so just once means that you must have solved the puzzle, and the rest kinda felt like busy work put in to use up time. The game is inside a trampoline park - and it kinda fits, the team the game seems most designed for is excited pre-teens and early teens who can calm down enough to solve puzzles but still burn off energy running frantically between the room to deliver each newly needed bit of info. It warrants a “like” vote, but there are lots more way better rooms in the area to do first.

This was a really well-executed game with good sets, puzzles that didn’t feel stale, and technology that heightened the experience. It requires bringing a lot of information back and forth between rooms (and warns you of that up front). I sometimes find that frustrating, but here it worked for me. It also meant that it helped to have a larger team, as there was a lot of information to share back and forth.