We had a ton of fun here. We did the Black Widow room with 9 people and it was very hectic but still a lot of fun! I would recommend taking no more than 6 people unless you want a lot of confusion! They told us it was their biggest room, and it took up 2 rooms with several puzzles in each. Even with all of us being over 21 and some of us well into our middle ages, we still were challenged by the puzzles! The story part of the room was very fun and the mystery was cute to solve too... and we did solve it! With 8 minutes left on the clock and a lot of rattled heads, we got out to take our picture. The signs we held up were super fun and cute, and it was nice to have the memory forever saved.
We did have some troubles with the room (one of the puzzles was unlocked by accident, which threw everyone off) and we discovered some of the clues before we should have, but thankfully we realized we needed to wait till we had the right tool before getting them so we played it fairly and it made it a lot more fun than cheating through it. In the end, it didn't detract from the experience at all, we just thought it was kind of funny. Not a big deal in the slightest. The clues were cleverly hidden and some of the puzzles were very difficult!
It was not scary at all and would be perfectly acceptable for kids, but the theme was still a little spooky and fun. The staff were friendly and very kind, and the clues they gave were cleverly written and tailored to your current progress. We went here for my 21st birthday party instead of the bar, and I can definitely say it was the right choice. I'm looking forward to going back and doing their other...
Read moreI completed all the rooms here. I wanted to rate the rooms better but I found a lot of the "puzzles" obscure where only the solution makes sense once you know it. It's a high bar to achieve that optimal place where something makes sense to nearly all the minds, and I have rated obscure rooms higher before when I have an open hint or nudge system that allows me to avoid the frustrating aimless wandering one does in the land of escape room obscurity. This place gives you five instead of the typical 3, but a limit does create stress for my escape room buddy and I who typically end up doing rooms alone. In all the rooms, you had to go back and forth between the various rooms you unlocked along the way a lot which is a bit abnormal compared to the average escape room where you progress from one room to the next. That causes observation overload and you could end up with a four-digit code and not recall that you left an unopened box that you first saw 50 minutes earlier by the entry door... We did have a little bit of technical difficulty in one of the rooms (dead batteries) so the game was paused and a free hint was given to excuse the interruption in the flow. That happens, so not...
Read moreBlack Widow was my first escape room. I didn't know it was a little more advanced than Double Dared or Spellbound, but we made it out so that's all that matters!! I still want to go back to do the other ones. Crossfire is the hardest, (I might go to the Murrysville location first to do one of those before I try that one.....) We tried the 30-minute room right afterwards and unfortunately didn't make it out in time. It was the holiday one where Santa had fallen ill. (Only needed maybe 30 more seconds to get the cookies on the table......) That one was seasonal and changed to something else, so don't worry I didn't give anything away 😉 Can't wait to go back to see what is there now!! The more people the better, that way one or two people can work on something else.... I think we wasted more time in the 30-minute room because we were ALL trying to figure out the same thing at once. It's so hard to write a review and not give things away, it was SO much fun!!! DYING to go back!! Something everyone should try...
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