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| - This isn't my first escape room experience thus I've seen better.
This place is hard to find in the first place, it's like you have to go searching for the escape room itself before playing in it. It's behind the plaza all the way in the corner of it too, with a very small, white sign that said origin room escape room.
Its a super small place once you walk in, with lots of polarid pictures of people which failed to escape, facing the entrance. Wasn't too encouraging the amount of "failed" pictures posted facing the entrance. It just made me feel that this escape room is hard to solve more than fun.
There's a couch along the wall and across from it is the counter where you pay, the counter almost seems hidden from everything in the small lobby room. On one side of the counter, there's a display case with some stuffed animals and lego sets inside. It's divided into 2 sections where it's over 4 people and over 8 people, meaning if you are able to solve the rooms without any hints, you can win one of these prizes. Beside the display case, there's a small wooden shelf with some random card games on it.
We got a groupon and apparently taxes are extra and you have to pay it prior to playing. We went into the vampire room where some team members had to be separate from the team. We were given one big flashlight and 2 little ones. The little flashlights had barely any batteries in it, which made it super difficult to see. The room was set hard more than fun, we were told that certain things we could not move and touch but as we got stuck and asked for a hint, we were told the hints were in the things which he stated we could not touch in the beginning, which we wasted a lot of time. And for a specific puzzle, clues were not given clearly enough so we couldn't solve it and had to keep asking because it didn't open the lock.
We did not manage to solve the room because of all these unclear instructions. We felt confused the whole time in the room. As we finished, we understood why there were so many other people that didn't successfully escape the room and why there would be such nice prizes if you successfully escaped.
I would NEVER come back to this place to try out other rooms and will not suggest any other friends to come here either. There's a lot of other places where they spend more money and thoughts into designing their rooms.
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