Mazebase, the company behind two UK exit rooms

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Yesterday’s post, about discovering the existence of Puzzlair, came about as a result of finding out that Mazebase existed. Mazebase are the company who designed HintHunt in London and Puzzlair in Bristol, and also have a room in Debrecen, Hungary and another in Athens, Greece. However, over the years, they have developed seven different rooms in total. Perhaps some of the others will come to the UK or Ireland some day.

If you’ve ever considered starting your own exit room, Mazebase have some packages available. They’re reasonably priced, considering how popular the rooms are, though I imagine the rental costs that cannot be included in a package are likely to be the major part of the expense of running the business. As a player, you might at first think that the price of playing an exit game is high; however, if you consider the rent, business rates and labour expenditures, to name but three expenses, I get the impression that there is no room at all for the operators to cut their prices and that the profit margins may well be very thin as it is, even despite how popular the games are.

A famous advert for a breakfast company says “We don’t make cereal for anybody else”; it is unclear whether any of the other exit room operators would be prepared to offer their services as well as Mazebase. If you’re interested in starting your own exit room, I guess it would be worth talking to the operators of other existing sites already and seeing whether they, too, might also be prepared to provide their services.

I hope to get to interview the people behind Mazebase before long, and any other operators who might be willing to talk about the services they can offer as well as the games that they run.

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