Frisco Escape Room — Attraction in Frisco

This is a really hard review to do, because, three weeks after our game, we are still very confused as to what happened. Since it would just be the two of us older players, and we took pains to make sure when we booked our room, that it was adaptable to our needs. The first glitch came about when we made our reservation on their web site and then wanted to change it. After two days of no response when we contacted them via e-mail, we left several voicemails for them to contact us, and never heard from them – at all.

Arriving in Frisco, we found Escape Room Frisco right on Main Street, Frisco, half a block from the Snowshoe Motel. Main Street Frisco parking is free, too, and plentiful when we were there. The building is locked on Sundays, and we could not see if it was even inhabited, save for the signage outside that said “Escape Rooms Frisco” that looked pretty new. Nevertheless, we were up for adventure!

Our reservation was for 3:30pm the next day, Monday, but we found ourselves in front of the building by 1pm. The main door was open, and we entered a lovely lobby amidst a lot of banging noises. When we finally found someone, it turned out he was our gamemaster doing some construction work, maybe a new room they were building (promising!) or just general construction. Either way, we were really excited that he was able to let us start early, and we made sure to let him know that we really wanted to see the whole room, so if he could give us really big hints, it would be great.

We chose to do “Finders Keepers”, in keeping with Frisco’s founding history, a 1908 treasure hunt where, as miners down on our luck, we try to steal Mr Foote’s (a big person in Frisco – very interesting to see his family name everywhere) watch that some school children have found from the Denver Hotel heist and stashed in their schoolhouse before the lunch bell. The game had a difficulty rate of 3/5 and the record time was 29:40, so it would have / should have been easy to complete with gamemaster help. Except. Our gamemaster was duo-tasking, we slowly realized and not completely present. All through our game, he continued with his construction work, and it soon dawned on us that he allowed us to start early because he wanted to get back to it.

The puzzles required a lot of finger-work, but were in theme, and the room was very in keeping with the rest of the town of Frisco. This is a good game for between 2 – 8 players with some need to crawl: there was stomach-to-floor work unless you are a very small person, and some of the puzzles can be solved by younger kids – if the locks opened when we solved them. The décor was simple but effective (like the very utilitarian toilet inside the building), and there was no tech at all - just lots of locks, very many of them, which, even when we (without glasses) managed to solve the puzzles, were very glitchy, and our gamemaster had to come in our room three times to physically get to the answer – each time taking about ten minutes of hollering before we got his attention!

We are generally okay with the room winning if we felt like we got our money’s worth. The cost of “Finders Keepers” is high compared to other games outside of California, Frisco being a tourist village, so we had similarly high expectations that we would at least be wowed by tech or something. It was an expensive room for the amount of attention we got, like we were paying to beta-test the room. From the positive reviews online, had our host been present for our game and less anxious to get back to his other work, we'd have been able to solve the room in the time allotted. That said, while the service was below expectations, they are obviously still trying to get themselves off the ground, so we would come back again to support their efforts. He did show us the ultimate treasure, and he was friendly all through the game – but he was not playing with us. At all. We would love to see at least one more escape room in Frisco so we can compare the service and attention of both. This review has been posted on...

The two owners are amazing. We were having trouble with one of the locks. We had the right combo but we still couldn't get it to work. They came in, checked the numbers. Pulled once then twice. On the 2nd pull it gave way. I like that they came to help instead of us being stuck on the same lock thinking it was wrong. We did all 3 rooms that this company has. Deuces wild was our favorite room out of the 7 escape rooms we have done. We have done rooms previously in other cities and Deuces Wild was still our favorite. I like that it's more solve the puzzle than to escape the room. The props were awesome and accurate. I can't get over that the attention to detail that put into the rooms. The floors were as accurate as possible i.e. gravel for the wild west, rickety floor boards for the classroom. The story lines are interesting. It's better that they are historical.

For those thinking that rooms can't be done with just 2 people, I am here to tell you that they can. We beat 2 of the 3 rooms and it was just my husband and I. We were on the last clue on the third. The owner said to take a few minutes to see if we could solve it and he was going to reset the room. We figured it out about 3 minutes later. I liked that it just wasn't escape room is over, here's the answer. The 2 rooms we beat, we did back to back since it was our last night in town. We did 2 escape rooms in under 2 hours. It was great!

After all 3 rooms we talked to the owners. They are very personable. This was my and my husband's honeymoon and now we want to come back since they are making more rooms. Wish they could get a bigger lot to have more going on.

I don't have any criticism but I have a suggestion. Put a white board in the rooms to help with writing things down. It's not necessary since we did beat it but it would be helpful with directional locks or code locks where you have everything you need, you just need to put them in the right order.

My husband and I love escape rooms. It brings out our inner gamer and our competitiveness. When we start a room, we are determined to figure...

My wife and I spent a week in Frisco, Co for our honeymoon. During our week, we did both of the available escape rooms, finders keepers and deuces wild, they were a blast. Both times we were the only two in the room and were successful. The puzzles were challenging but not impossible. We have both done other escape rooms but these two were awesome. The story lines were so much fun and they are incredibly well thought out rooms. We spoke with both Ian and Richard and you can really tell this is there passion. They care about setting the bar high for escape rooms and do everything they can to make it a fun experience for their guests. My only complaint is they are so far from Wichita, ks, because we would love to go back.

Thanks for making our trip extra fun and keep up...