Escape Room Review– Solve Escape Rooms– Waukesha, Wisconsin
Solve Escape Rooms in Waukesha, Wisconsin is a new business. It has two rooms open with two more planned in the future. My friends and I have played one of them, and I can’t wait to see the rest.
The room we played is “Capone’s Cabin.” When you begin your experience, you’re led into a lounge area and shown a brief video featuring a deceased relative, telling you to check out an old cabin that may have been a hiding place for Al Capone, and he may have hidden a cache of gold bars there. You have one hour to find the gold.
First of all, the production values are great. It really looks like an actual cabin, and it reminded me a bit of the presentations at the Milwaukee Public Museum. First you find your way inside the cabin, and then you work on the puzzles. One thing I appreciated about the room is that it was nice and spacious– there’s plenty of space to move about, and there’s lots of light so you can see what you’re doing.
What’s also fun is how the clues come in through a television set. We only needed a few hints here and there, but most of the puzzles were reasonably challenging but never frustrating. Some points needed a little more explanation to be put into context, but everything made sense– no huge leaps of logic or overly simplistic problems, and nice, big props– I hate it when most of the objects are tiny little keys that are easily lost or misplaced. We finished with lots of time to spare.
The game master was terrific as well, and what’s nicest of all is that if you win your room, they will donate $25 to a charity such as The Food Pantry, The Alzheimer’s Association, or The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Our $25 went to help people with diabetes.
The other existing room that we haven’t played yet is “14 Floors Below,” where your new landlord has stolen the Declaration of Independence and you have to snatch it back. If the puzzles and designs are as good as “Capone’s Cabin,” I can’t wait to play it and their upcoming rooms.
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2 was released on June 22nd. His first novel, Sherlock’s Secretary, was released by MX Publishing. His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books. His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
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