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| - I went to two rooms here with a group of friends.
The first room we did was The Dig. This was my favorite room and I highly recommend it. The room was very well themed and they definitely put some thought into the room design and the puzzles.
The second room we did was Escape the 80's. While we still had fun doing this room, it was a complete letdown after completing The Dig. The room was just not very well thought out or themed well. Maybe I hyped myself out too much, but I thought the room would be exploding with nostalgia from the 80's. Some of the stuff in the room wasn't even from the 80's, such as a Suns jersey from the late 90's/early 2000's, a current Mountain Dew can, and a game of pong that uses an xbox controller. The room did have 80's music playing which was fun.
The other problem with the 80's room was the puzzles. While The Dig had more varied puzzles, the 80's had way too many number locks. The Dig had three: One at the start, one in the middle, and one at the end. The 80's room had 5 or 6 locks that were all in plain sight when you first enter the room. This meant that whenever someone came up with a number to try, we had to try them on all locks which was annoying.
The other problem we had was with broken and poorly designed puzzles. For The Dig we were specifically told before the start that we should not use force for anything. Without spoiling anything, there is an object that we tried touching to another object. Nothing happened so we kept going. Near the end of our time, we had 3 of the 4 final clues to open the exit door. A clue came up that said "KICK THE OBJECT". Afterwards we were told that we did the right thing but the magnet lock was broken. It would have been nice to know that ahead of time.
Overall, we had a blast. If you go I would highly recommend trying The Dig. I would imagine the bank heist room is also good assuming it is similar to The Dig. I would stay away from the 80's room and the Scottsdale apartment, since those are more generic rooms.
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