The manager, Don, called me one night in response to my email, and after explaining how he’d found our website during a Google search of his own when looking into opening the room, he invited me to come play. Steph and I went the next day to enter The Attic and the rest is…well it’ll be written below. (Sorry, wasn’t ‘history’ this time. lol)

You’ve been staring at the dossier all night, and after your 3rd cup of coffee, you decide to call it a night and go home to catch some shut-eye. When you go to put on your jacket, you accidentally knock the cup over onto the papers and the heat from the coffee revealed a hidden address. You head there with a small team and hear a thump in the attic. You head up there and the door shuts. You turn around and see a note from the thief…

Note that the story actually further unfolds as you progress through the room.

Rating: 9/10

Rating: 7/10

There were several things I haven’t seen before in a room, and without giving anything away I can tell you that you need a keen eye in this room or you’ll absolutely miss something important.

There was one puzzle we were working on that threw me for a loop, but at some point I had an epiphany and figured it out. (After talking with Don after we escaped, he said that was the quickest he’s seen it solved so I had that going for me.) There were one or two things that we overlooked, so like I said, keen eye.

There were a lot of locks from what I recall but it kind of worked. Remember, you’re in an old house, in the attic. Just needs to be dustier. The puzzles, though, were well done for the lack of items there in (which is a total complement).

One thing of note. On the website, the picture for this room has an old attic and that’s what I assumed we’d be walking into. When we spoke to Don after the room, that was originally the plan but they had to get a different location at the last minute and weren’t able to build it out as such.

Rating: 8/10

Anyway… I do love ‘hidden in plain sight’ things but one of them definitely got us. Here’s a hint for you: Search everything. Twice. (Refer to Rule #3). One puzzle, if you recall above, I said I had an epiphany on how to solve it. That’s how…let’s go with treacherous, that’s how treacherous some of the puzzles are. Nothing is blatantly set to confuse or to be impossible to solve, but some do require a bit of brain power.

Giving the puzzle difficulty its own rating, as I have been doing for a bit now, I’d say 3-7.5. That’s a damn decent spread and not terribly difficult. But don’t bother guessing at things; if you find yourself trying to brute force a lock, you haven’t found the clue yet.

Rating: 8/10

As I said earlier, this was supposed to look like an actual attic, but due to some issues they ended up leasing a different location and so the attic build wasn’t done. [Maybe I can get a picture to post after that is done…I’ll work on that for you all.]

Otherwise, using my terrible powers of imagination, you can kind of picture the room being used as a home base. There’s a map, suit cases, tables and chairs. The attic…design would really make it, though.

Rating: 7/10

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