Now open in Bristol: Locked in a Room

Locked in a Room logoWhile trials have been going on for a few weeks, Locked in a Room only opened in Bristol a few days ago. It correctly bills itself as “The UK’s Newest Live Escape Experience”, but this is a self-destructing title that has a lifespan that might be expected to be another seven days or so.

The site is launching with a single game, with a 60-minute time limit, called Timelock. In it, teams of 2-5 of You are respected scientists individually working on secret government funded projects in laboratories located in an abandoned warehouse around the Docklands of Bristol. One of the scientists, Professor Samuel Pottenger, has just been dragged kicking and screaming along the corridor by unknown armed assailants. Pottenger is known to you as a very level headed man of immense intelligence and absolutely not one prone to an emotional outburst… Discover his secret. It’s not clear from the graphic whether the mood is sci-fi or fantasy, or what the pictured character has in his mouth; photos of the site look rather steampunk, and impressively, unusually tall. A second game, Invisibility Gene, is under construction.

The site has been distributing keys around the city; a cunning plan, as people are loathe to throw away found keys. If you encounter one (and they’re often not too far from the venue itself, between College Green – next to the Cathedral – and the O2 Academy) then you can pay for three players and bring a team of four. The charge is £20 per player so it’s a saving worth making if you can!

((Edited to add, 8/9/15:)) This description missed one of the site’s key features; it has four exact copies of the Timelock room, to enable head-to-head-to-head-to-head competition on a level playing field. This isn’t quite unique, but it’s certainly unusual and distinctive; getting together with a big group like that would certainly make for intense competition with no room for excuses!

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