Hi everyone
The third room at Riddle Room that my team played during our March 2021 long weekend was The Hideaway.
The summary of The Hideaway is as follows:
While investigating an elusive criminal, a police detective has gone missing without a trace. We need your help to find her before it's too late.
Players: 3 - 6
Recommended Players: 3 - 5
Difficulty: 4 / 5
Scare Factor: 0 / 5
Hideaway was our 6th room in Canberra and our 173rd room to date. Here’s what we thought:
· Hideaway is one of the latest rooms at Riddle Room (together with Hotel) and it contains a heck of a lot of well-concealed tech;
· Hideaway is a reasonably large sized escape room. There were lots of puzzles to solve, with varying levels of difficulty. As always, the puzzles that slowed our team down were the hunt and seek elements (we often don’t see what is right in front of us, and that was no different in Hideaway);
· Hideaway is really well-themed. It is clear that a lot of hard work has gone into the presentation of the room, the props, etc. There is also a strong storyline that continues throughout the experience;
· there are no dark areas or scary elements to Hideaway at all, so it is a room that would suit families;
· my team found Hideaway probably the most challenging of all of the rooms that we played at Riddle Room. That was in part due to our inability to see what was in front of us, and in part because some the puzzles were quite challenging;
· as always, the customer service side of things was excellent in Hideaway. We had a dedicated game master watching our every move. Chris, one of the owners of Riddle Room, also took us through each of the puzzles in the room after we escaped, which was really great; and
· I am pretty sure Riddle Room uses the Voice of God system in their rooms. We did ask for a hint at the end of Hideaway, but I don’t remember for sure whether it was the Voice of God or another method for communicating.
Hideaway is a really strong room. Some of the theming elements were excellent. There was a really nice mix of puzzles, of varying degrees of difficulty. We had a chat with Chris, one of the owners of Riddle Room, after we escaped. We had some ideas for how to improve a couple of puzzles (minor things like changing up some of the iconography to make things clearer in the final puzzle, or having a certain element locked away until later in the game to avoid confusion). These were all minor in the grand scheme of things (and whilst they would have been useful changes for our teams, perhaps not so much for other teams).
Again, I forgot to write down how long it took us to escape from Hideaway, but I think it was somewhere around the 45-50 minute mark. I think Hideaway, at least for our team, was the most difficult room at Riddle Room. And it was also a lot of fun.
Where: 8 / 160 Lysaght Street, Mitchell ACT
Duration: 60 minutes
Themes: 4 themes (with plenty of space for more rooms)
Price: $40 per person
Overall Thoughts: A high-tech, challenging room with great theming
More details: http://riddleroom.com.au
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