Calling all codebreakers and puzzle pros: it's time to escape.
Calling all codebreakers and puzzle pros. If you reckon you're an undiscovered super sleuth, if you live for solving problems, and if you refuse to crack under pressure, then it's about time you tested your mettle at an escape room. Interpret the clues and crack the case if you want to escape, but be warned, the clock is ticking. Here are best of the bunch in Sydney.
Located in a historic property in The Rocks area of Sydney's CBD, co-owners Akos Viktor Oldal and Martina Oldal-Horvath have laid on two hardcore escape scenarios to keep even seasoned escape room pros occupied. Blindfolds, handcuffs and thoroughly realistic settings will get the adrenaline pumping and the mind whizzing with an incredibly diverse range of challenges and brain-teasers to solve in an hour or less.
Where: 40 Gloucester Street, CBD
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Reckon the infamous WWII Enigma Code looked like a doddle? Then take a trip back to 1945 at the Espionage room and crack the code left for you by Agent M, before enemy spies arrive on the stroke of midnight. If the spy game isn't for you, try your hand at the serial killer themed The Cabin, a must for true-crime aficionados who don't mind digging out clues in a dank, rusty cabin.
Where: 640 King Street, Newtown
You might want to cover up your necks for this one. Enter Vampire Castle (handily located between a phone store and a TAB - Vamp's got class!) and with only three clues to help you, make it out before you're sucked dry! If Dracula ain't your jam, you can also take on the mad scientist, Dr M, work out the mysterious significance of the purple crystal in the The Lost Mine, or outsmart a kidnapper to free your family in Mission Sydney's hardest room, The Last Order.
Where: 2/332 Pitt Street, CBD
Plucky games masters Daniel Thomason and Aaron Hooper have put together a nerds' paradise, with a lot more human interaction than most escape rooms. For those really wanting to make a day of their escape room experience, you can take the "warm up" 15-minute Blitz room before the 75-minute main event Ex Libris, a literary-inspired room perfect for bookworms and wordsmiths alike.
Where: 2/37 Bligh Street, CBD