Escape rooms

This was a while ago. Just after my birthday. I received a voucher for an escape room as a birthday present. I also had a day off booked, on the assumption I'd be going away (silly me) so it seemed like a good opportunity.

The game was Alice in Puzzleland. An Alice in Wonderland Themed experience. The aim of the escape room was not to escape per se - There are many escape rooms where that is the goal I'm sure - but to solve puzzles. in this case it was to find the stolen tarts and set up the table for a dinner party.

So we entered. And were transported to Wonderland. Well, a small room with a cottage at one end and a table in a corner. A signpost, and a few other bits and pieces. Puzzles are provided without an explictly stated goal. Just rely on abstract ideas. What does this map have to do with the sign? How do we use this recipe book? All became clear with some lateral thinking.

Clues were provided by the Cheshire Cat. A staff observer who stayed in character, and suggested idea without giving too much away. We needed to find spades. There were two trowels. Flickums insisted that trowels and spades were different and the Cheshire Cat pointed out that the Mad Hatter is a rather silly man who does not know the difference.

I won't go into detail about puzzles. Other people might want to play. Suffice to say we solved it with time to spare.

It was a lot of fun. Realy hope to do another one of these days.