TrappedEscape Room Game, Flight 927 - Escape Room in a Box. Family games.

I totally love escape rooms, they are the ultimate co-operative game where everyone works together to achieve a mutual goal i.e. to escape. Prior to the pandemic they were soaring in popularity with new escape room premises opening up all over the place. Actually visiting an escape room in person isn’t always an option, though, whether because of a lack of local escape rooms or because they’re fully booked or because, say, your entire country is currently on lockdown.The solution to this dilemma is the escape room at home. The concept is pretty simple, provide you with the materials to turn a room in your house into an escape room. The kit comes with a number of pretty taxing challenges that you need to complete before you can achieve the final goal of escaping. It really is good fun, even if the atmosphere isn’t quite the same as in an actual escape room, it still provides a challenge and still engages you in a way that makes you need to work together to achieve your goals. It is a single use product (at least within a single group of people as you could pass it on to others to solve) but the price is pretty reasonable and it is great for a family group activity.This set is cleverly themed to make it a bit more interesting that just solving puzzles.Based around escaping from an airplane you need to solve the puzzles to enter the cockpit and by doing so, save the day.It really is good fun and I would certainly recommend it.

This is so much fun. I have personally never been to in a proper escape room experience but I have always liked the idea of it. This seems like a perfect way to give a go from the comfort of your own home.It was my partner and I setting up this game at home and it was a lot of fun. It took us a couple of hours to get it all worked out but now we’ve done one, we feel like the next one would be a little easier as we now know what we’re looking for and things to watch out for. The puzzles are quite fair and are stuff you can figure out: it’s a challenge but it doesn’t feel like the game is trying to ‘trick’ you in any way.Overall, it was a really fun experience and, despite only being able to play through it once, I would say the price is fair and makes for a really enjoyable time. It makes you come together and analyse things and try figure stuff out as a team. Very fun and well worth the cost. Recommended.

I've played quite a few escape rooms in my time, and also several attempts to encapsulate the escape room experience in decks of cards, books etc. This is a box of paper props which can be used to create an escape room type experience at home.You get about twenty odd pieces of paper with clues on in the box, which you are supposed to set up in two rooms. There are a total of ten puzzles to solve (four in the first room, five in the second and one final puzzle), all of which result in a code number, and the digits in each code number add up to ten, which is how you are supposed to know you have got it right. This is a bit of a flaw, as knowing this - and you are told it up front - makes some of the puzzles much easier to solve; it also means that you can sometimes get the wrong answer but think it is right...These things stand or fall by the quality of the puzzles - are they logical, or do they require great jumps of guesswork to solve? In most cases, these are pretty fair; I am a very experienced solver of puzzle hunts and the like, and working on my own, I got 8 of them without using a hint; for the other two I required a hint from the included book. (The hint book, incidentally, is very good - it comes with a viewing card which obscures words not in the hint, so you can't accidentally see hints for puzzles other than the one you are trying to see.) The two I didn't get involved spotting something in one of the pictures which was a little un-obvious, but fair in retrospect.When I say there are ten puzzles, two of them are utterly trivial - read the number off the picture; no thought at all required.I also have to say that the theme - an aircrash - is completely arbitrary and doesn't fit the puzzles at all; why you'd need to work out code numbers hidden in the passenger's luggage to get into the flight deck makes no sense whatsoever. There are also inconsistencies in the puzzles - in one, seats are numbered with just a number, in others, they are numbered with a number and a letter - why would the plane have seats numbered differently like this? It's part of the mechanic for the puzzles, but the puzzles would have worked just as well if the numbering had been consistent.As a result, I got the impression this was a bit thrown-together and not all that carefully created, which is a shame. There are also quite a few typos and bits of poor English - again, a bit of care could have made a better experience.All that said, it was a mildly interesting diversion for half an hour or so. It's not going to keep an experienced escape room solving team occupied for very long, but for something like a child's party, it'll keep them quiet for a bit. Someone with the hint booklet will need to be on hand to avoid them losing interest when they get stuck, though...There's no replay value at all - the same people can't solve it twice - but you could always pass the kit on to someone else, as none of it should get damaged while playing.

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I didn't expect a great deal for the price, but was still disappointed. We only used it with adults (I'd seen previous reviews saying it wasn't suitable for children) but still found it poorly explained. The storyline had possibilities but the puzzles didn't need the story at all. It was about an air crash, but the various pictures used didn't work together. Eg one picture showed rows of 3 seats together, another just 2, so we wasted time trying to work out the relevance. There were other such misleading discrepencies. We won't be buying another.

I took 3 different escape rooms home with me for a week with my parents, siblings, and our families. We set each escape room up in a different room of the house and rotated through them in teams. We had a variety of ages and mobility and EVERYONE had a great time!