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| - I love an escape room, but this place was decidedly not awesome. We did the chess room with a groupon and were not impressed at all. I bought the groupon before really looking at the room options, and then the only one that worked with my schedule was the chess room. I don't know a lot about chess, but we decided to give it a shot. As it turns out, the chess room is indeed all about chess. So, if you don't know how to play chess, this is not the room for you.
That part aside, this place is yucky and uninspired. The whole place has a dingy feel to it. There's debris on the floor in the hallway, bags of trash everywhere, and the bathroom was not clean at all. They did a quick intro of "don't destroy the room" and then we were off. The room was sparse. Really sparse. There were three pieces of furniture and little else. Certainly not enough to keep 8 people busy at once. Some of the clues were clever, but others were so obscure that we were lost without hints. The room was well worn and the clues were too - one puzzle was so worn that we could barely put it together. All in all, we needed MANY clues and still didn't finish.
At the end of the day, my impression of this place is this: A couple of people had a few beers and said "hey, escape rooms are popular - let's do that" and then they made a cheap, halfhearted attempt to put one together. Skip this and try another brand.
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