various degrees of difficulty. Most games are one hour in duration, although the most recent addition, the Grand School of Sorcery, lasts 90 minutes. There is something for everyone, with games suitable for all age groups from 8 to 88. If a game has a particular physical requirement, visitors will be informed of this at the time of booking. For those who are new to escape games, the centre offers a 30-minute challenge named the Eye of Fire. Players are challenged to search for the Eye of Fire, a huge orange sapphire. This legendary jewel was said to have been unearthed during an archaeological dig deep in the Peruvian jungle more than half a century ago, but has never been seen since.
gods and hieroglyphs which cover the walls and replicas of the kind of artefacts you would expect to find in a pyramid, it really does feel like you are entering an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Players of this game are challenged to take on the Pyramid of Mysteries. Several millennia ago, the Egyptian Pharaoh, Horus, devoted years to building the Pyramid of Mysteries. Upon its completion, he lay down a challenge that whoever could enter the pyramid and escape within one hour would inherit the whole of Egypt. Failure would result in being entombed in the pyramid forever. Players are challenged to take on the
Pyramid of Mysteries and succeed where everyone else has failed. In Secret of the Tomb, players enter a mysterious dimly lit room, where they are given one hour to find an urn of ashes, put it in its rightful resting place and escape before the psychopath, whose room it is, returns. Please note that this game contains strobe lighting. Players of The Bomb are members of an elite “Bomb Disposal Unit”, who are given one hour to find a bomb, deactivate it and escape the room. Two of the one-hour games on offer at the Escape Room Centre are
As regards the one-hour games, three are graded as suitable for beginners and more experienced players alike and may be played between teams of two and six people. The Egyptian is one of the Centre’s most popular games. As with all the escape rooms here, the room has been beautifully created with plenty of attention to detail. The aim is to allow players to become totally immersed in the game. With the images of Egyptian www.lancmag.com
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