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| - This place was great! I came here for a UYE event (organized by Meena A, there were 9 of us total!) with a bunch of elites (sadface, the only non-elite in attendance), and while I had never met any of them before, it was a great hour of fun & collaboration. I've never done a professional room escape before; by contrast, I did an event similar to this at my university, but it was organized by a school club, and was much simpler in scope and in the number of associations between puzzles.
The biggest draw for this place & the activity for me is the amount of teamwork involved. You have to trust your teammates to do the roles they set out to do, and what everyone does is valuable and useful to the collective contribution of the overall group. Our group had minds from all disciplines - and they all came together to form quite a nice team dynamic. I figure we came pretty close, but we still were part of the 97% who failed to solve the puzzle.
That all being said, it's a great place to challenge oneself, and people who love puzzles and patterns and is curious about everything in general will immensely enjoy this place. Be forewarned - it's a ~2% success rate. I'm very critical of my own performance, since I was at least partially responsible for not recognizing a pattern in one of the last pieces of the puzzle, but hey, it's a team effort overall!
The only regret I have about this place is that I didn't take more pictures of the lobby area / outside of the game room.
Definitely get a room here, it was a pleasant & enjoyable hour of craziness. The guy running our room said there was more stuff coming -- and I can't wait to come back and try again.
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