So you are in an escape room with your team. What things can trip you up? How do you over come them? Not seeing what is in front of you. Sometimes one of the hardest things in an escape room is seeing what is in plain sight. You are so used to having to open … More Tips for solving puzzles in Escape Rooms
18th August 1940. It had started as a normal day. The WAAF were serving tea to the airmen playing darts and cards when the attack happened. No-one expected the Luftwaffe to launch a resurgent attack on Britain. With their air base hit by the first wave of heavy bombing, the airmen abandoned their darts match. As the … More The Battle For Britain
Black. The game started with complete darkness. And music… Edgy, scary music designed to make players nervous… We entered not knowing what to expect. Sure, we’d played other escape rooms. Ones where you sift through drawers and empty cupboards looking for clues. But this game was different. This game was the Breakin’ Blackwing’s Cave room … More Holy Foul- Up, Blackwing!
The ringing phone could only just be heard over the sound of the wind outside and the excited chatter inside. Someone needed our help or rather a few someones needed our help….. Invitation To Events sprang into action and dispatched teams across Nottingham to discover the hidden clues, objects and codes. Each team would … More It was a dark and stormy afternoon when the call came through…
August can be stressful as you await your exam results Did you do enough revision? How lenient will they be with the marking? Did you read the question correctly or skim it and make some stupid mistake? Maybe you should have just stolen the exam paper! Well, no, in real life you shouldn’t. But for an … More Awaiting exam results can be stressful
One of our friends invited us to take part in Handmade Mysteries latest escape room. We were told to meet at The Depot and await instructions. At the appointed moment, Wynne, our wooden, toy soldier guide arrived to take us to Poppa Plock’s wonky workshop. First impressions on entering the toy factory was that it was … More Demented dolls and a scheming ventriloquist dummy…..
