11th Hour Escape — Attraction in Corpus Christi

Being a game master myself, I find it relatively disappointing whenever another game master influences my game in a negative fashion. Unfortunately thats what happened during my time playing their pirate themed room. The sole reason my group was unable to finish is because a prop fell behind a large heavy desk causing us to be unable to get the final digit to open a lock. In this situation I would usually just guess and check the final number until the lock opened but our game master made a specific note saying “don’t brute force locks or else we’ll make you put them back and solve the puzzle correctly.” Because of this, and the common rule of only using 2 fingers of force to move objects, my group spent upwards of 30 minutes wandering around looking for a symbol stuck behind a desk and assuming we were just doing a puzzle wrong. Not once did our game master notice we were missing a key part of the game, and only after did she try to laugh it off with us saying that “we could’ve just guessed the last number.” This combined with the fact that she needed to ask us questions to figure out what we had and had not done before giving us our clue really makes it seem as though our game master was barely paying attention to us in our room. My group paid around 190 dollars total for only half an experience because we were physically unable to continue on in the room. Which really is a shame because realistically the room had good puzzle and was overall a well made room leading up to that point. Just wanted to leave this review mostly in hopes of a potential higher up seeing this and hopefully being sure their game masters pay more attention to their groups from now on, because again, if our game master had just mentioned once that a sword was missing, we more than likely would have had...

There hasn’t been much engineering done to any of the rooms. They have very basic decor. Despite that, we went in with our best foot forward! The staff was very friendly and supportive with hints. I will say, we have done 15+ escape rooms and this was the first we didn’t escape. They have it set up that the clues do not lead from one to the next, but rather that there’s multiple leads happening at one time. Unfortunately, this caused us to get lost in the multiple lines of clues and confused with what hint lead to what. There wasn’t much of a story line throughout and it was easy to get bored and frustrated. This escape room is lock heavy, with almost every clue/puzzle involving a lock- occasionally a crossword or solve by process of elimination puzzle. These paper puzzles made the escape room feel less “real”. I think this could be enjoyed by first timers, but if you’ve done several escape rooms before I’d suggest...

First time escape room for us!!!!! 1 We were on our way home from South Padre Island and decided to stay the night in Corpus. While here we wanted to find something to do with our kids, something fun and inexpensive. We found this place on Groupon and decided to give it a shot. When we got there we learned that we were going to be paired with another family. A mother and her 2 son's. We were a little bummed at first because we had 4 of us (and felt like we had a big enough team.) All that changed quickly when we started. They were very nice and helpful to us. We took on the pirate scenario and completed it with 2 minutes and 46 seconds left. All and all we had a blast and can not wait to try one or as many as a we can. The girl that worked here was very sweet, she was excited for us, and made the experience that much better. If you're in the area do yourself a favor and stop it to 11th Hour Escape, you will not be...