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

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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. Bust it out the next time your friends are over or the family is coming to town and see who the real geniuses in your life are! To make a larger event around this game, mail out the enclosed invitations and have your guests arrive in character and in costume. 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. 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.

We took photos of each room so we could reset it, but there are reset instructions given in the Puzzle Solutions guide. Or try a 90-minute experience escaping from criminals on a 1920s sleeper train, or dark goings-on at the Grand Hotel. When the Blossoms’ glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand reopening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons!As well as the invitations, we had 9 mystery envelopes – each representing a room of the Grand Hotel, plus the game introduction and a “Puzzle Solutions” envelope – to be opened in emergencies only. Another very different at home proposition, Escape from the Grand Hotel, is a table top, envelope-based escape experience. Going over Halloween meant that we were there for the Lunar Festival and the town was suitably themed for spooky season. Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things.

You are presented with a series of different envelopes, each designed as the exterior to one of the rooms of the Grand Hotel.Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty.

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. It’s the big re-opening of the Grand Hotel but nothing is quite what it seems in this immersive escape room game! 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 clues were tenuous and the solutions unconvincing, and the climax as we opened the final envelope and read out the very long-winded, predictable prose was embarrassingly and frustratingly disappointing. Overall, still an exceptional room and one of the best we have done but I still rate Temple Quest and Diamond Dogs higher!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. During the evening, they must travel through the hotel solving the series of mysterious puzzles that release them from each room.