Janice Wildersmith, widow of wealthy oil tycoon Warren Wildersmith, arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas on Flight 501. Upon landing, she discovered a family heirloom in her carry-on had been stolen.

As a new recruit of the Special Puzzle Ops Team (S.P.O.T.), your first assignment is to help solve this case.

You have 60 minutes to determine the flight number and identity of the thief and what heirloom was stolen.

Assemble your best team for this difficult challenge --Janice is counting on you!

The Escape Spot

Flight 501

Escape room

This is their hardest room and after we played it we learned why. It’s as if the person who made these puzzles understood what to do and why things were the way that they were but it was confusing for those trying to play the game. The room isn’t linear which doesn’t bother us, but the puzzles didn’t always make sense and then we were given information that wasn’t useful until the later but we thought we needed it when we found it.

Also, in this room you’re looking for 3 pieces of information before 60 minutes is up. There isn’t anything to remind you that is the goal of the room so we all forgot by the end what we were trying to do since all we did was solve puzzles and then at the end we had to remember what 3 pieces of information we needed.

Overall, an ok room.  This was #42 for half of us, and it falls in the bottom half of those we've done.  This room is NOT linear (which is ok) but is instead just a jumble of clues from which the players need to come up with a 3-part solution.  We missed completing the room by seconds with ~4 clues.  Some of the puzzles are clearer than others, but there are some clues just randomly placed and the team needs to be intuitive to apply the right clues at the right time.  The room isn't very high tech or immersive, and some clues are very subtle.  We enjoyed the challenge of this room and would recommend it to experts (The Escape Spot's hardest room) but it would be very difficult for anyone just looking for a Saturday afternoon activity.

A previous poster mentioned that the game requires you to find three clues and they critiqued that by the end they'd forgotten what they were looking for.  The Escape Spot seems to have fixed this by providing a place with defined space to input each of the three solutions.

This was good enough for the Little Rock area to consider returning for one of their other rooms (considering that options are somewhat limited).  We will most likely do so with better managed expectations.  Fun, but don't get your expectations too high.

SPOILER ALERT: Unlike any of the 41 other rooms we've played, this one requires using certain clues multiple times, which, despite essentially asking the question at the beginning, was not made clear to us, and we'd not seen before.  Not major, but created a speed bump.

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