Professor Puzzle | Escape from Grand Hotel | Puzzle | Ages 12+ | 2+ Players

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Or try a 90-minute experience escaping from criminals on a 1920s sleeper train, or dark goings-on at the Grand Hotel.

Your guests travel through the hotel, solving the series of interactive puzzles that release them from each room. Other times we uncovered a more cryptic clue like the color of one of the doors or some other descriptor.We were ready for a night to remember – little did we suspect it would be for all the wrong reasons!

The quality of the puzzles was also very good and varied - despite the limitations of being a table top game, the designers have certainly structured a well flowed, thoughtful game, withgreat variety. Overall, still an exceptional room and one of the best we have done but I still rate Temple Quest and Diamond Dogs higher! If you are not UK based, or prefer online adventures, join the City Adventurers as an Armchair Detective. 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. We took photos of each room so we could reset it, but there are reset instructions given in the Puzzle Solutions guide.

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. Although we liked this presentation of hints, Professor Puzzle included only one hint per puzzle, which was insufficient. Escape from the Grand Hotel was Professor Puzzle’s first foray into tabletop escape games… and they got a lot right. Some were very tricky and even with the hidden clue within the envelope, still didn't quite appreciate how the answer was achieved. Whichever you choose, the ultimate aim is the same – players work together to solve the puzzles, uncover the mystery and escape before time runs out.

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. It is an immersive town that you can explore at your own pace with live actors who you interact with through trails (accessed on your phone) to bring the experience to life.Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty. There's an opening and a closing ceremony to tie the four hour experience together but this really is something where the more you put in, the more you'll get back. There are 9 different rooms to visit, starting in Your Room, each one containing a different puzzle or challenge that will lead to the next room… and the next riddle-filled envelope.

Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things. We didn’t really use any of this because we didn’t realize it was an option until we already had our friends over and the box open. You are presented with a series of different envelopes, each designed as the exterior to one of the rooms of the Grand Hotel.I was difficult for 2 to share solving the puzzles in the different rooms and I cannot see how 8 people could be involved. If you also set a star rating, the star rating won't be shown anywhere but will still be used when calculating the game's overall score on Escape The Review. When their glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand re-opening, they’re ready for a night to remember – little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons! The owners, the Blossom family, transferred the hotel into their sons name, however the day before his 21st birthday, he disappeared.