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    Julie | England

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    46 Below

    46 Below

    Trapp'd Billing

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Imagine, you enter the mountainous area where a plane has crashed & as you remove your blindfold you can feel the snow falling on your face! Yes, really! The set on this is vast & sparsely decorated with just a few key pieces & props and it’s unusual as you have access to most of the set right from the beginning. We were scratching our heads as we seemed to have looked at everything & just couldn’t see what came next. Again, it’s not as puzzle heavy as some of their rooms (a bit of a relief after DOA!) but the tasks you need to do differ from stuff we’ve seen anywhere else & the theming is awesome. You need to be very mobile to do this room & despite the snowy theme we both remarked that we were physically sweating from all the running around we did! It feels like a bold move to have opened a room like this, but that gamble will hopefully pay off as it’s simply brilliant.
    Abigail

    Abigail

    Trapp'd Kettering

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Creepy, creepy, creepy. Good, but creepy! This is slightly spooky from the moment you walk in with temperature, lighting & props all used to good effect to prey upon your own fears. As you progress the scare factor increases & whilst you’re alone, you may as well not be… You’re forced to split up, so if you’re a pair & easily spooked then this is not the room for you, but if you keep your nerves in check it’s well worth a visit.
    Alice

    Alice

    Mystique Room

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Amazing set design, it is very in keeping with the story from the book. This set evolves in all direction from what initially appears to be one room to an amazing set making brilliant use of the space around you. There are ladders & narrow steep stairs to climb up & down & you will have to separate and communicate well with other team members to resolve some puzzles. I adored the moving mushrooms & the tea party area, they were just so fun & a world away from set design we’ve seen elsewhere- which to be fair seems to be a trademark of Mystique which sets them apart from other companies.
    Area 51

    Area 51

    Escape Leicester

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This room was padlock free, though the room itself was tough with a lack of flow & we felt like we were constantly stuck about what to do next. Some rooms just aren’t your kind of room & this one simply didn’t click with us. I’ll be honest, it’s 3 years since we played this game & I can’t even now picture the set or room, so apart from brief notes I made at the time, I have nothing more to say about it…which sadly says something in itself. I do recall staff at the venue being really nice though & they let us play through until the end with this room taking us 68 minutes, which was very kind of them & much appreciated.
    Area 51

    Area 51

    Trapp'd Corby

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This room has now been retired. Set across two rooms, this featured an alien in a lab behind a wall of glass & hidden room with some added bang which was through the first secret entrance we’d encountered in an escape room. Super fun & classic Trapp’d offering.
    A Sógun Árnyéka [The Shogun’s Shadow]

    A Sógun Árnyéka [The Shogun’s Shadow]

    Mystique Room

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This was the first room we did at Mystique & it opened our eyes to how well their themed sets would be. Starting in a Japanese garden you will make your way into the building…if you search carefully enough to find the clues you need to do so. Searching is key throughout & there were several novel hiding places along the way. With lots of locks this game kept the 2 of us busy throughout.
    Asylum

    Asylum

    Escape Asylum

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Now closed down. Asylum...well...not a good idea if you’re sensitive to flashing lights or have heart problems! The first part of the room doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the theme but is good fun if you can overcome the frustration! Once we got past that the scares commenced & Games Master Olivia manipulated the atmosphere brilliantly to prey upon our natural nervousness at being locked in an asylum with the ghost of Edith, who wasn’t going to let us out alive unless we solved her murder. 👻🔪💣🔫⚗️💉⚰️🚬This game is geared towards mental conundrums & centres upon solving one central puzzle. By the time we’d figured that out (with a lot of confusion & feeling a bit stupid along the way) we were just a bit too confused & slow at grasping how to complete the very final task & ran out of time. ⌛️😳Whilst I didn’t enjoy his game as much as some, just because it doesn’t have as much puzzle type variety as we really like, it’s a well staged room which will certainly raise your pulse rate & the hour will fly by. 🧠⏰😱
    Atlantis The Lost City

    Atlantis The Lost City

    Trapp'd Wellingborough

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    We played this right at the start as testers. Whilst it didn’t feel as sophisticated as most of the Trapp’d rooms, it was still fun with enough things to do to occupy two fast movers. A pivotal item broke (but that’s the point of testing!) but staff were quick to fix it & give the extra time back- Trapp’d staff have always been top notch in our experience.
    Az Escobar Ház [House Of Escobar]

    Az Escobar Ház [House Of Escobar]

    Locked Room Aroom Budapest

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Amazing 4d design. You need to be physically able to complete this room as it involves ladder type stairs, but wow, what a room! You start outside in the street & will have to work out how to enter the target premises, which appears to be a normal house. From there you begin a journey into the murky world of drug production & distribution…
    Az Időgép [Time Machine]

    Az Időgép [Time Machine]

    Mystique Room

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Despite this being the least impressive of the Mystique rooms we played, it was still a beautifully decorated & themed set, which immersed you into a time machine which had accidentally stopped time. You must fix the machine to restart time. The lighting is used to good effect in this room which is a fairly large space, and there was a lot of tasks for just a pair to complete. I love steampunk so expected to love this room, yet for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on, I preferred the other Mystique rooms we did.