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LOCATION: Redmond, Washington, USA Photo above is property of ESCAPETHEROOMers Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 📝 ETR DECODER 🔑 GAME: Frankenstein 📅 DATE PLAYED: August 10, 2026 🎬 GENRE: Sci-Fi, Thriller 🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): 6/10 👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 3-6 ppl 🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins. 💰 PRICE: $46.00/ pp (depending on # of players) ☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private 🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes 📖 THE STORY As the last students of Dr. Frankenstein, you are tasked with completing his forbidden experiment. Your mission is to restore the vital organs, harness electricity, and bring the creature back to life before time expires. Video above is property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE The introduction video expertly set the mood for the unfolding story. Presenting it on the window panels instead of a TV was a brilliant choice, immersing us in a storybook experience. Just when you think you've seen an incredible Frankenstein prop, brace yourself for what's next... The lighting and initial jump scare perfectly complemented the Frankenstein theme. For those who might get startled, rest assured, this is the peak of the "scare" factor in the entire game. It's absolutely worth continuing. We thoroughly enjoyed one of the puzzles cleverly hidden in plain sight. It wasn't overly challenging, but required keen observation, leading to a satisfying "Aha" moment once discovered. Assembling Frankenstein and witnessing its animation was another standout moment in this game. Conundroom Escape Rooms excelled with the "revival"! 🧩 MISSED THE MARK We thoroughly enjoyed the entire adventure and have little to add to this section. 🏹 TAKE A SHOT? If you're familiar with the tale of Frankenstein, you'll be thrilled to dive into this game! It's like witnessing the story unfold right before your eyes. You'll have the chance to bring the iconic monster to life and feel an incredible sense of accomplishment at the end! There's an agility puzzle in the game that poses an exciting challenge for two players. We managed to conquer it, but three players would be ideal, which is why the game is designed for three participants. Aside from that, all the other puzzles are easily manageable with any group size. This is hands down our favorite game at Conundroom Escape Rooms during our tour. You absolutely have to check it out! ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO Free parking right outside the facility Lobby with seating, games and merchandise for sale Free water provided 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 Conundroom Escape Rooms for comping our tickets for this game. Although complimentary admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #IRLescaperoom #EscapeRooms #ConundroomEscapeRooms #Frankenstein #SciFi #Thriller #Washington #USA

LOCATION: Portland, Maine, USA Photo above is property of The Escape Room Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 📝 ETR DECODER 🔑 GAME: The Blind Tiger Speakeasy 📅 DATE PLAYED: August 13, 2023 🎬 GENRE: Historical 🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): 6/10 👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-8 ppl 🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins 💰 PRICE: $25.00/ pp ☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private 🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes (36:12) 📖 THE STORY It's 1920's America and that means prohibition. Organized criminals like mafia boss Maximillian Malone are making a killing on illegal booze, and Uncle Sam isn't too happy about it. It's your job as a team of federal agents to infiltrate Malone's speakeasy - "The Blind Tiger", to find enough proof of his crimes to put him in jail and throw away the key. Video above is property of The Escape Room 🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE The room's decor does a great job of capturing the period aesthetic, with plenty of little accents like advertisements and old photographs to sell the look. Though not all of it worked as intended, the room does a good job of incorporating its technology in ways that feel natural for the theme. I especially liked a particular prop that was incorporated into the game's ending. Puzzle design is strong, with several deduction-logic puzzles that we really enjoyed completing, and which matched the detective theme nicely. 🧩 MISSED THE MARK Some of the technology in the room wasn't working, including a skill game that wouldn't deploy no matter how many times we completed it. Staff didn't notice right away, so we wasted several minutes trying to get the machine to work. We weren't provided with pen and paper or any other means of taking notes, which was especially frustrating for a puzzle involving coded messages on the ratio. 🏹 TAKE A SHOT? Rooms with a period aesthetic live and die based on how committed they are to their theme. With detailed decorations that convincingly capture the look and feel of a 1920's speakeasy - "The Blind Tiger" checks the most important boxes for this style of room. Both sections of the speakeasy incorporate numerous artistic touches from advertisements to period-accurate photographs to phone booths and radios that scream Roaring 20's, and all of that lends the puzzles and the room at larges a strong sense of time and places. Plus, there are some fun secrets to uncover that feel straight out of a pulp adventure comic. Unfortunately, my partner and I found our immersion broken in some places, in large part due to malfunctioning technology. In particular, a skill game in one corner of the room failed to deploy its clue even after we had finished it several times, which delayed us for quite some time. Eventually, we were able to signal the staff to remotely deploy the clue, but this also took some time, which surprised us given how long we had spent struggling with the machine and commenting out loud that it wasn't working. If a tune-up on the machine isn't possible, then we at least encourage a closer eye be kept on the machine from the control room. A second frustration we had with this room was the lack of note-taking implements provided, despite pen and paper being available in other rooms here. Some puzzles were difficult to complete without some way to write things down, including a multi-step puzzle that began with remembering a list of code words from a radio broadcast. If you fail to remember them all in order, you need to start the whole broadcast over again, but it won't begin until several advertisements have played first, meaning a lot of wasted time if you don't have everything properly memorized. We're not sure whether the lack of pen and paper was an oversight or a deliberate design choice, but we encourage its use for the future. Despite some aspects that held our experience back, "The Blind Tiger" is still a solid room with several things going for it. It's clear that the designers put a lot of thought into it, and that shows not only in the aesthetics, but in some fun and imaginative puzzles as well. Though it needs just a little more work in our eyes, that work isn't strenuous, so we expect this to be a pretty good experience for most guests going forward. ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO Since it is in the middle of Portland, The Escape Room does not have its own parking. Metered spots are available just outside, but you may need to walk from further away if they are taken. The waiting area has plenty of seating and lockers to store your things while you play. 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 The Escape Room for offering us a media discount for our tickets to this game. Although a media discount was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #KevinHelock #IRLescaperoom #EscapeRooms #TheEscapeRoom #TheBlindTiger #Historical #Maine #USA

LOCATION: Portland, Maine, USA Photo above is property of The Escape Room Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 📝 ETR DECODER 🔑 GAME: World On Edge 📅 DATE PLAYED: August 13, 2023 🎬 GENRE: Thriller, War 🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): 6/10 👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-8 ppl 🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins. 💰 PRICE: $25.00/ pp ☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private 🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes (38:12) 📖 THE STORY It's the middle of the Cold War, and the world stage is far from comfortable. The USA and the USSR are locked in a battle of escalating tensions, and if ever that conflict boils over it will mean mutually assured destruction for all parties involved. In this world on the brink of destruction, a KGB agent obsessed with starting a third world war has snuck onto the Soviet submarine Stalinsky and primed its nuclear warheads. With just an hour left until launch, it's your job to undo the agent's sabotage and keep this from becoming an incident of world-ending proportions! 🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE Though perhaps a little minimalist in some respects, the decor captures the feeling of a military submarine effectively, with a couple small touches for character. In particular we really liked the officer election posters scattered throughout. One puzzle did a good job of challenging our initial assumptions, while another involved a cooperative skill challenge that was creative in its design and prop construction. 🧩 MISSED THE MARK Some areas of the room were either poorly lit or simply weren't used effectively. For instance, a large prop in the first room (an engine, perhaps?) wasn't used at all, which seemed an odd choice for something that took up so much space. While fiddling with an electronic puzzle element that shouldn't have been active until later in the story, we accidentally put in a correct answer that skipped over several puzzles. The staff didn't notice until the end of the room when we expressed our confusion that there were numerous elements we had never used. Given how easy it was to accidentally put in the correct answer, we would encourage that the puzzle in question be activated only when it is needed. One puzzle required familiarity with maritime phrases we found too obscure to be considered common knowledge. One puzzle involving studying an image on a computer screen was incredibly frustrating due to the image's poor resolution and color distinction. We stared at it for a very long time before finally resorting to guesswork, a tactic we almost never use. 🏹 TAKE A SHOT? Before taking on "World On Edge", we were warned by our game master that the room was new, so it was possible that the experience wouldn't be quite as smooth as our previous room ("The Blind Tiger Speakeasy", which itself had some technical difficulties). Following our experience, it was difficult not to agree with our game master, and to further conclude that the room was not yet ready for the public. While the room did an alright job of capturing the feeling of being on a submarine (including a fun synchronized key-turning sequence straight out of a war movie) and even employed some creative puzzle designs in a couple places, the overall experience felt rather rough around the edges, with multiple puzzles that my experienced team found not so much difficult to complete as they were frustrating. We had to complete a skill challenge in a dark corner, guess at obscure phrases we'd never heard before, and make ourselves cross-eyed squinting at a tangled mass of wires (with very similar colors) on a grainy TV screen. All around, the level of friction between the players and the game was much higher than what I'd expect to find in a professional business, and left us feeling rather let down. Having completed a better room at The Escape Room in Portland, I know that they are capable of putting together some solid, worthwhile experiences, so I would encourage more rigorous play-testing before releasing future rooms. Given how new this room is, my hope is that it will undergo some changes in the weeks and months to come, but in its current state it is hard for me to recommend. ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO Since it is in the middle of Portland, The Escape Room does not have its own parking. Metered spots are available just outside, but you may need to walk from further away if they are taken. The waiting area has plenty of seating and lockers to store your things while you play. 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 The Escape Room for offering us a media discount for our tickets to this game. Although a media discount was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #KevinHelock #IRLescaperoom #EscapeRooms #TheEscapeRoom #WorldOnEdge #War #Historical #Maine #USA

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