Professor Puzzle | Escape from Grand Hotel | Puzzle | Ages 12+ | 2+ Players

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Going over Halloween meant that we were there for the Lunar Festival and the town was suitably themed for spooky season. It’s the big re-opening of the Grand Hotel but nothing is quite what it seems in this immersive escape room game!

We were able to pack it up correctly by referencing the solutions guide, but without instructions, we had to repack one puzzle in the solved state. There's an opening and a closing ceremony to tie the four hour experience together but this really is something where the more you put in, the more you'll get back. If your board game life has gone a bit stale, use this difficult puzzle game to take it to the next level. Brought this for a party I am hosting over Christmas and gave this a trial run with a group of friends over the weekend - great fun solving all the puzzles and racing against the clock.Your guests travel through the hotel, solving the series of interactive puzzles that release them from each room. The owners, the Blossom family, transferred the hotel into their sons name, however the day before his 21st birthday, he disappeared. There are 9 different rooms to visit, starting in Your Room, each one containing a different puzzle or challenge that will lead to the next room… and the next riddle-filled envelope.

You can do as many or as few trails as you like and can have a drink/eat your way through the food menu/play games at your leisure. I was difficult for 2 to share solving the puzzles in the different rooms and I cannot see how 8 people could be involved. As a linguist and data expert, Lisa also leads our Industry Data efforts and is responsible for our annual Industry Reports.Escape from the Grand Hotel was Professor Puzzle’s first foray into tabletop escape games… and they got a lot right. Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things. You must work your way around the hotel, carrying out each of the puzzles contained within the envelope.

We were ready for a night to remember – little did we suspect it would be for all the wrong reasons! Gather your friends for a games night like no other with this collection of immersive escape room games! The idea that the puzzle solutions alluded to the next area of the game was a smart twist on the tabletop escape game format. Your experience of this game is very similar to ours, but we found the game far too easy, until we got to the coded fax. You are presented with a series of different envelopes, each designed as the exterior to one of the rooms of the Grand Hotel.The quality of the puzzles was also very good and varied - despite the limitations of being a table top game, the designers have certainly structured a well flowed, thoughtful game, withgreat variety. The gameplay took some clear inspiration from the ThinkFun tabletop escape games, using location envelopes and paper components to tell a puzzle-driven narrative. So much reading and easy puzzles at the start, it would have been difficult to keep 8 players entertained. This matchbox game is filled with difficult puzzles, brain-teasers, challenges and exercises for you to work your way out of a seemingly cursed hotel.

Fantastic fun for puzzle solvers, lovers of board games, whodunnits and murder mystery events, it’s a great gift for anyone who loves entertaining and wants their dinner parties to be nights to remember. If you aren’t comfortable with the format, the limited hinting could make this game quite challenging.It is an immersive town that you can explore at your own pace with live actors who you interact with through trails (accessed on your phone) to bring the experience to life. If we solved a puzzle, it would resolve to a clue to the next location within the hotel for us to visit. Editor-In-Chief at Room Escape Artist: Whether she is editing REA’s content, leading the Hivemind, or wrangling the logistics for RECON or the Escape, Immerse, Explore Tours, Lisa is the reason that everything runs like clockwork. This is a very well presented game with its smart box and mysterious envelopes, so it looked extremely promising for an evening's family entertainment.