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As a linguist and data expert, Lisa also leads our Industry Data efforts and is responsible for our annual Industry Reports. Weird, wonderful, exhausting, entertaining, daft and downright ridiculous, Phantom Peak is an immersive experience not to be missed. Brought this for a party I am hosting over Christmas and gave this a trial run with a group of friends over the weekend - great fun solving all the puzzles and racing against the clock. If you're not keen on interaction and on throwing yourself into a role, then this might not be your cup of tea but if you are game for speaking to characters and immersing yourself in this platypus-obsessed world, then you are on to a winner. If you aren’t comfortable with the format, the limited hinting could make this game quite challenging.
Gather your friends for a games night like no other with this collection of immersive escape room games! You can do as many or as few trails as you like and can have a drink/eat your way through the food menu/play games at your leisure.We were able to pack it up correctly by referencing the solutions guide, but without instructions, we had to repack one puzzle in the solved state. The gameplay took some clear inspiration from the ThinkFun tabletop escape games, using location envelopes and paper components to tell a puzzle-driven narrative. When their glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand re-opening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but as it turns out, it’s memorable for all the wrong reasons! As well as the invitations, we had 9 mystery envelopes – each representing a room of the Grand Hotel, plus the game introduction and a “Puzzle Solutions” envelope – to be opened in emergencies only.
If you are not UK based, or prefer online adventures, join the City Adventurers as an Armchair Detective. Or try a 90-minute experience escaping from criminals on a 1920s sleeper train, or dark goings-on at the Grand Hotel. Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things. Other times we uncovered a more cryptic clue like the color of one of the doors or some other descriptor. but this should by no means put escape room fans off going because it has so many elements of the theatre and story element that we love in escape rooms.
Your experience of this game is very similar to ours, but we found the game far too easy, until we got to the coded fax. Overall, still an exceptional room and one of the best we have done but I still rate Temple Quest and Diamond Dogs higher! Your guests travel through the hotel, solving the series of interactive puzzles that release them from each room. Going over Halloween meant that we were there for the Lunar Festival and the town was suitably themed for spooky season.
Editor-In-Chief at Room Escape Artist: Whether she is editing REA’s content, leading the Hivemind, or wrangling the logistics for RECON or the Escape, Immerse, Explore Tours, Lisa is the reason that everything runs like clockwork. This approach allowed Professor Puzzle to strip out artificial answer checking mechanisms and keep things in-world. When the Blossoms’ glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand reopening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons! This matchbox game is filled with difficult puzzles, brain-teasers, challenges and exercises for you to work your way out of a seemingly cursed hotel. The idea that the puzzle solutions alluded to the next area of the game was a smart twist on the tabletop escape game format.The effects and tech was outstanding but the host did seem eager to give hints, several times before we asked.
The clues were tenuous and the solutions unconvincing, and the climax as we opened the final envelope and read out the very long-winded, predictable prose was embarrassingly and frustratingly disappointing. It could have been that the final stage tech wasn't as smooth as the rest or maybe just that our expectations were too high after enjoying their other rooms. Escape from the Grand Hotel was Professor Puzzle’s first foray into tabletop escape games… and they got a lot right.To win the game, you must answer all the puzzles within the envelopes, escape the hotel and work out what is happening behind its closed doors. If you type something in the 'Text to display' box, that will be displayed instead of any star rating. However, there were too many little flaws and gaps that got amplified by the limited hint system for me to comfortably recommend this to a tabletop escape game newbie. Another very different at home proposition, Escape from the Grand Hotel, is a table top, envelope-based escape experience. Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty.
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