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LOCATION: Williston, Vermont, USA Photo above is property of Escape Room 60 Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 📝 ETR DECODER 🔑 GAME: The Treasure of Tiki Island 📅 DATE PLAYED: August 5, 2026 🎬 GENRE: Adventure, Pirates 🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): 4/10 👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-12 ppl 🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins. 💰 PRICE: $32.00 - $49.50/ pp (pending on group size) ☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private 🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes 📖 THE STORY You’ve come upon a mysterious message in a bottle, leading you to a remote, volcanic island in the Pacific in search of answers and treasure! Your circling chopper pilot has about an hour's worth of fuel, and the volcano looks like it could erupt any minute. Can you find Blackscar’s treasure and escape before the pilot turns back or the volcano erupts? 🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE This room features a cute and thematic character that serves as your hint system. This allows folx to get hints without being drawn out of the world (and interacting with a character can feel easier and more entertaining than asking a GM for a hint), making for a more fun and immersive experience. The whole game is family-friendly and has a sense of playfulness. We loved all the monkeys and that their mischievousness is the rationale for everything being locked up. (You can even buy a monkey stuffie as some adorable swag.) Walking into the game made me feel a bit like I’d just made it to a tropical vacation destination somewhere…quite refreshing (and I’m sure even more so had we played in the middle of winter). There were a few experiential moments that were a bit more unusual, including a rewarding end of game bit that was fun, a little silly, and prompted a thematic finish. We noticed several Easter eggs in the game that are nods to other notable island adventures (and who knows what we may have missed!). They added cute little moments of recognition and potential fandom. (Krista is a big fan of one of them!) There are many traditional locks in the game, but they are highly varied in type, and we almost never had to wonder which lock a specific answer or key should go with. 🧩 MISSED THE MARK While we very much appreciated the character used for hints, groups like us who don’t require hints may wish they got to interact more. While not really a “Missed the Mark”, there’s certainly an opportunity here to augment the character’s role with additional commentary (encouragement, gentle ribbing, story beats, etc.) that all groups can enjoy. There was one ghost puzzle remnant from something that has been removed, with the leftovers being perhaps a slight red herring. We definitely expected them to come into play at some point! This game has more of a backstory, rather than narrative progression. But we still found ourselves a bit confused as to how several different elements fit together, why things happened the way they did or resulted in things being left in the way we encountered them. A little clarification and justification might make everything feel a bit more cohesive. 🏹 TAKE A SHOT? "The Treasure of Tiki Island" is very approachable for beginners and cutely themed for families! The hint system is well developed (and cute!), and the fairly linear nature makes it relatively clear what to work on next. It’s a more traditional game that won't pose a huge challenge to seasoned veterans but it is a lot of fun, making it a good option if bringing someone new. So next time you feel like a tropical getaway (with some puzzling, of course) without the vacation pricetag, head to Escape Room 60 to seek old Blackscar’s treasure… ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO There is a bathroom available and a lobby with seating. They are located in a shopping plaza-type area with a reasonable amount of free parking available in the lot. There are restaurants and a green nearby for grabbing grub and relaxing after you're finished or fueling before you start. We’ve always found their staff very friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic (big shoutout to their manager, Turner)! Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape Room 60 for comping our tickets for this game. Although complimentary admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #DaveBristol #IRLescaperoom #EscapeRooms #Adventure #Pirates #EscapeRoom60 #USA #Vermont

Photo above is property of Got a Quest Company: Got a Quest Game: Magus School of Magic Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Tabletop Games 📬 Genre: Magic, Fantasy, Kids Date Played: June 16, 2021 Difficulty (based on 2 adult players): 2/10 Size of Team: Unlimited (Recommended 2-8 pp. Can be played as a solo game. Ages 8+) Time: Unlimited (Suggested 1-2hrs) Price: $115 ($96 for KickStarter backers) Disclaimer: This review was based on the prototype that we've received from the creator and not the actual game. 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Zephyr, the ghost of Magus School has been left behind after the school moved away thousands of years ago. He's finally waited until YOU showed up to save him. Will you be able to help him reunite with the Magus School of Magic? 🆃🅷🅴 ❞🅻🅾🅾🅺🆂❞ "Magus School of Magic" game (prototype) came in a mysterious magical looking purple box. Inside you'll find many sealed colorful envelopes, 2 string ropes, an eye mask, instruction booklet with clues and solutions, postcards, wizard cards, cool props and many other secrets waiting for you to unveil... Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 The first step is to make sure your phone or tabletop can install Apps from the Apple store or Google Play. Once you've downloaded "Magus AR" App, you can start playing the game. We found that if you're using your phone, it's best to turn the orientation to horizontal as some puzzles needed a wider scan. Although you can use your AR scanner on any of the game pieces, only certain ones will react to the app. The AR scanner will act as the narrator, clue giver and answer checker. The game play should lead you to when you'll actually need to use the App. Besides the usage of the App, there's a good amount of the game that's solely tabletop based. You'll need to decode and solve puzzles to get the right solution in order to know what to do next. There was one added fun element where it actually will make the players do something physical which is a great idea for kids that likes to be active. We played this game solely as a tabletop experience for review purposes but the intended way to play this game is as a DIY escape room. A game master (parent) will be setting up the game by hiding items around the house for kids to find. They'll then piece together the clues to solve the puzzles in a more interactive way. This is a great activity for parties and family nights. Photos above are property of Got a Quest 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 Since we've playing many tabletop games by now, there were a lot of familiar puzzles we've seen used in other games but there were still a few that managed to surprise us. From simple puzzles like "search and spot" to multi-step decoding, this was definitely a game you could enjoy even as adults. Other than the normal answer reveals done by solving puzzles, this game provided many alternative ways to unveil solutions. We really enjoyed those enchanting moments where we continuously made sounds of "Woooo"s and "Ahhhhh"s. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 The 3D props, artwork and AR really helped to bring this "Magus School of Magic" to live. We were drawn by the cute little ghost Zephyr right from the start. If it was up to me, I would have wanted him to accompany me on the entire journey but that will probably feel more like a digital game rather than still keeping some game components more tactile and tabletop based. The creator actually would prefer to call this as a team game versus tabletop. This is because you'll actually need to step away from your table for one part of the game and it'll actually be more fun if you played this part as a team. It's rare to see a game that incorporate so many different elements together to make the game actually feel like you're on a journey. If I was a kid, I would be very excited to receive this game as a gift. Especially if they enjoy fantasy, magic and adventure! Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of the game: Video above is property of ESCAPETHEROOMers ** UPDATE - We regret to inform that "Got a Quest" has closed. Disclosure: We thank Got a Quest for providing us with a prototype of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #EscapeRooms #GotaQuest #MagusSchoolofMagic #Magic #HarryPotter #Zephyr #Magus #Kickstarter #Fantasy #Ghosts #KidsGame #Kids #Mystery #Supernatural #DIY

Photo above is property of Got a Quest Company: Got a Quest Game: Cryptic Robbers Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Print-N-Cut 🖨️✂ Genre: Heist Date Played: July 25, 2021 Difficulty (based on 4 adult players and 3 kids): 1/10 Size of Team: 2-6 Players (Recommended for kids ages 8-13) Time: Unlimited (Suggested for 1 hr but depend on the age and number of players) Price: $10.00/Team 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 A 80 million dollar pink diamond has been stolen. Can you recover it in time? 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Once you purchase the game, an email with clear instructions on "how to play' the game will be sent to your mailbox. There's a PDF file that you'll need to print out in advance which contains clues to the puzzles. As experienced puzzlers, we're able to come up with the answers without the printouts but we recommend to give the kids the full experience as they'll be more excited when they can visualize the reveals. Your entire team can use one login but everyone will be progressing at the same time which means if one player types in an answer, it'll update for everybody. If you want to play the game at your own speed, it's best to purchase your own game code. The great thing about this game is that if you ever want to play it all over again, you can just clean your computer's cache and restart the game from the beginning as there's no time limit or expiration. Photos above are properties of Got a Quest 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 Since this game was designed for kids, we actually had a few of them join us for this session. It was great to be able to see how different kids were able to conceptualize a puzzle versus adults. For some puzzles they were able to solve it much faster than we did. The platform was very clean and easy to use. You will not encounter multiple tabs as everything was designed within the game itself. Once you solve the puzzle and enter the right code, the next puzzle will reveal right underneath the previous one. We encountered deciphering, searching, differentiating, and visualizing type of puzzles throughout the game. The 3D interface was really cool. We were hoping to see that being utilized a bit more. If you get stuck, hints and solutions were build into the interface. Photos above are properties of Got a Quest 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Got a Quest designed this game to be like a storybook. As we solved each puzzle, we felt like we were following the robbers next move by flipping to the next page. The graphics were really cute and quirky. Kids will have a blast using their brain powers to solve this mystery. To make it more fun, you should definitely make this into a family challenge night. Think you're smarter than a fifth grader? ** UPDATE - We regret to inform that "Got a Quest" has closed. Disclosure: We thank Got a Quest for comping our tickets for this game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #USA #Heist #KidsGame #GotaQuest

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2021 Bullseye Award gave recognition to escape rooms and games in categories such as "Best Set Design", "Best Storyline", "Best Online Game", "Best Remote Escape Room, "Best In-Person Escape Room", "Best Table-Top Game" etc... bullseye awards ESCAPETHEROOMers' choice awards Every year we recognize some of the "best" games we've played throughout the year. "Best" is a relative term and we don't think it needs to be singular or honor just one winner in each category. With a team of 14 reviewers, we've played approximately 1,200+ games in the categories of "In-Person Escape Rooms", "Live-Hosted Games", "Tabletop Games" and "Online Games". Below are essentially our top 10% of the games we like to honor with an award this year. Starting from the "individual category" awards , we feel that these games stood out in one of these categories: "Set Design", "Puzzle Design", "Fun Atmosphere", "Cooperative Elements", "Innovative Ideas" "Print-N-Cut", "Illustrations", "Unique Storyline" or "Characters". In our " theme category " awards, these were games we felt best represented a certain theme with their design, puzzles, and storytelling. The 4 categories were "Adventure", "Fantasy", "Horror" and "Mystery". Finally our most prestigious category, " Best Overall ", were games that we felt hit all the targets in terms of set design, story, immersion, and puzzles. These were given in categories of "App/Video/VR Games", "Table-top Games", "Digital Games", "Live-Hosted Games", "Immersive Experience" and "In-Person Escape Rooms" Congratulations to all the winners! - best "set design" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "psychopath's den" "the tomb" "the island" "the extraction" "the illusionist" "the sorcerer's study" "dungeon of drakar" "the roomvengers" "the curse of pharaoh" "escape from 20,000 leagues" "mission: mars" - best "puzzle master" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "room 118" "the vandermist dossier" "enigmas - puzzle hunt playing cards" (tabletop games) "the enigma" "angie's flower shop" "dr. esker's notebook" "the secret lab of dr. prometheus" "puzzlesnacks" "starship titan-1c" "dr. chen's office" "illusion" - best "fun room/ game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "dr. v.h.'s marvelous movie maze" "cirque du saboteur" "escape from catland" "an office escape room misadventure" "imaginasium of intrigue" "the satirical miracle: a jolly tale of granny's blackmail" "d.j. death" "the last pyramid: the sands of time" - best "cooperative game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "deckscape: crew vs. crew - the pirates' island" "alone together 3: together at heart" "space defenders" "the navigators and the call from beyond" "the traveler's guide to little sodaburg" "the sapphire palace" "nova" "strange inheritance" "taco twosday" - best "innovator" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "chocolateral bars" "cryptex hunt" empire escape "the keeper & the fungus among us" "the ghost in the attic" "rising star" "agency 51" - best "print-n-cut" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "prison of memories part 1" "the school of magic" "mi:9: evade & escape" - best "illustrator" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "crimes in h.h. holmes' murder castle" "the illustrated puzzle story" "the fairy tale files: the cinderella murders" "funny pages" "spirit train" - best "unique storyline" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "leopold pt. 1 - the pendulum of the dead" "fairlake bank heist" "the graverobber's dilemma" "isolation" "children of wyrmwoods" "escape the chop" "breathless" "the antidote" "the legend of pepe" "the curse of boar tavern" "till death do us part" - best "character" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) detective allen atwood joe sleight mother the engineer cousin jj jonathan harker, dracula, professor van helsing ronnie - best "adventure theme" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "daylight robbery" "pitfall" "a world of challenges" "the mystery of mayan temple" "project pandora" "red giant" "timemission" "mayan ruins" - best "fantasy theme" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "comic shop" "the mysterious moodus markings" "dig it up! crack the crate - a dragon's world" "the wizard's apprentice" "the wizard's wand" "the magic market" - best "horror theme" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "alone in ward 6" "the alp" "mind trap" "nightmare lands" "zodiac serial killer" "dead cabin" "the messenger" "haunted mansion" "project minotaur" "knott family chronicles: owen" - best "mystery theme" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "missing in jericho" "the curse of the burial dagger" "moriarty's game: a killer in the hive" "the case of little gomersal" "conspiracy" "the sudden silence of timothy lee" "welcome home" "the clock winder" "plymouth point" - best overall "v.r., app, video game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "dr. crumb's school for disobedient pets" "the room vr: a dark matter" "legend of the sacred stones" "unmemory" "rusty lake roots" "the witness" "we were here (series)" "time travel - chapter 1" - best overall "tabletop game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "the antikythera tablets" "monsters in the wild" "escape room the game: secret of the scientist" "hack forward" "escape mail - s01e07: buried" "danger in the deep" "reager's return" "light in the mist" "chapter 1.7: tale of a golden dragon" "the memory stone" "escape from the maze of the minotaur" "exit: the sacred temple" "maui's curse" "chapter vi: milton manor" "last resort" "nyarlathotep" "micromacro: crime city" - best overall "digital game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "tunnelling through time" "unboxing the mind of a cryptic killer" "the clocksmith's apprentice" "who killed bugsy marlowe?" "initiation: esoteric order of the veil" "vampire hunters" - best overall "live-hosted game" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "showdown" "mind heist" "freakshow" "something brewing" "o'brien's cottage" "time machine - the secret of leonardo" "monster hunters academy" "gold rush" "ronnie's house" "movie mayhem at the menagerie" "escape from the science lab of shifting rules" "espresso crunch" "#14: traveling solo" - best overall "immersive experience" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "clue" "the hunt for the smoking caterpillar" "the galactic war: the invasion of the xarnai" "immaterium" "avatar stalker - phase two: basement" "sleepy man" "frost base z" "puppet heist: the hand of life" "down the rabbit hole" "the crystal cave mission" "f5 tornado escape" - best overall "in-person escape room" of the year - (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) "de kelder (the cellar)" "the soul collector" "monuments" "crane manor" "train robbery" "the secret of saint-rumoldus" "the sanctuary" "the magician's workshop" "hunting season" "scooby-doo and the spooky castle adventure" "magic lamp" "dungeon vii" "wrecked" "montauk project" "p.t. railways: spectral rift" "manhattan" "legend of the pines" "for queen & country" "bros for life: fraternity heist" "servants of sleight"