Rohan had attempted this room once before with some friends (some very inexperienced friends apparently?) and never made it past basically the beginning of the room, so we asked if he wanted to give it a second shot. He did, so off we went!

Rohan had been to this location before a long time ago, so Jason and I were initially going to do the room on our own. However, once we found out that Rohan’s previous experience didn’t get them even through 20% of the room, he decided to join us (and worked on puzzles his previous team didn’t get to solve before).

Now, we chose this room because of its Indiana Jones feel. I’m always up for a good archaeological adventure.

Now, we weren’t 100% sure what we were looking for when we started the room, but you find it in the first half of the escape. Then you spend the rest of the time trying to escape the temple you’re in. It was pretty cool. There are some really nice touches in the latter half of the experience that I will say no more about so as to not spoil anything.

The warning at the end of the description on their side is true: It was damn dark in there and that definitely makes one of the puzzles a bit harder to accomplish.

Rating: 8/10

The story was pretty cool and had a slightly different spin on the theme which is usually “you find yourselves trapped in a lost temple and have 60 minutes to escape.”

Rating: 7.5/10

Additionally, the fact that it’s listed as a temple is hammered home when you enter the room. I don’t want to give too much away but it is… well created.

Rating: 9/10

Pretty clear as to what we had to do, and you know how I like it when there are multiple objectives.

Rating: 8/10

There’s a good mixture of what I can only assume were magnetic locks or RFID enabled locks. I generally enjoy puzzles that have those in them.

Even though finding the combination for a lock and opening said lock to reveal your next step is sometimes exciting, it’s more exciting to complete a puzzle and have part of the wall creep open and provide the entryway a second room. Not that that’s what happened here, I’m just using it as an example.

There were also several puzzles that required actual teamwork, as in made easier by having 2 people working in tandem.

Rating: 10/10

There is even a puzzle that you need to figure out on how to NOT do the entire room in the dark with only a few flashlights and lanterns (Note: the room tells you that the room starts in the dark, so make sure you bring your glasses with you if you wear them).

There was also a really good mix of actual locks, and other ways to open the different mechanisms you find. And not one type of lock or puzzle was repeated in the room, so well, well done.

Rating: 10/10

Probably my favorite one was in the first half of the experience, something that uses your surroundings to determine the proper way to open it. All I can say is that I was not observant enough to realize what I was doing wrong, however, Mike was able to finish the puzzle.

After escaping, we spoke with our GM and she showed me what I had been doing wrong. All I can say is facepalm.

That all being said, there was nothing overly easy and I would rate the difficulty of the individual puzzles in this room somewhere between 4 and 8. I’d say that’s a pretty damn good range.

Rating: 8.5/10

With only three of us, we were working our asses off solving one thing and another. When one of us got stumped, we cycled out for another person pretty quickly because we knew that we didn’t have time to dick around.

The one puzzle that Rohan and I worked on really needed at least two people to do. I was thinking of a way to solve it without doing the whole thing (in the end, I was correct in that you could figure out the solution without having to solve every aspect of it. I don’t know if it was my urge to see things fully completed (just a little bit OCD) or if I truly wanted to see how the whole thing matched with the room, but we stuck to it to get it done.

I loved the logic puzzle in the room which was harder than I thought it would be and required a lot of back and forth and moving pieces.

When rooms integrate the things you find into future puzzles that require drawing a connection between them all, I think that’s a great way to keep people immersed in the experience.

Finally, there was one puzzle that I got to work on all my own. I figured it out after a few minutes but it was really… puzzling HAHAHAHAHA

Rating: 8.5/10

The fact that everything actually revolved around the professor really helped keep the room going, too.

While, yes, there was some good tech in the room, I wouldn’t necessarily say it made the room lose something for being out of place. The tech that was there fit pretty well and the later, hands-on puzzles more than made up for that fact.

And yes, I felt like I was in an ancient temple. (Now, maybe, I know what it felt like to be on Legends of the Hidden Temple… Always wanted to get on that show.)

Rating: 8.5/10

The puzzles and their solutions are all tied to the theme or the story, and I don’t think there was one instance of things not fitting in (and believe me, I looked).

Lots of really cool, unique stuff here… some of them spins on things we’ve seen before, but a few brand new things to solve, look at, or experience.

The flow of the room was well done too. With the complexity and multiple things to work on, the experience both sped up as we solved things quickly and then slowed us down when we had to invest a lot of time on a few of the puzzles. One puzzle really seems to try and force you to take your time before you can find the solution, which works really well with a group of 5+… we had 3 so we really were jumping from puzzle to puzzle, which added to the urgency to figure out how to leave the room.

There was some cool tech in the room, but it fit the theme and wasn’t too tekkie… think more old world science and that should explain it.

Rating: 9/10

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