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Article updated on 11/10/2023

At clueQuest, we have a soft spot for proposals...With the help of Chris & Frances - one of the many couples to get engaged during one of our missions - we put together some useful advice for those of you out there planning to pop the big question in an escape room.

If you are here to plan how to pop your own big question in an escape room keep on reading you came to the right place. This could be you.

MrQ is on the lookout for the most creative #pageoftheweek! Leave an awesome doodle in our guestbook, keep an eye on our Facebook page (liking us helps) and every Friday you & your team could be rewarded with clueQuest freebies! :)

The most wonderful time of the year is upon us - and we hope that it will find you prepared. At clueQuest, we are ready as always: the tree is up and our briefing area is ready to compete with the excitement of Winter Wonderland (minus the bratwurst and mulled wine, sadly) - let's have a peek!

Win a £1,500 donation* this Christmas for a cause or charity close to your heart. More details in the article.

Calling all Sherlock aficionados! Sherlocked: The Official Sherlock Convention returns to the ExCeL in London this September and clueQuest will be there. Join us between the 23-25 September for a weekend filled with mystery, amazing guests and all things Sherlock. More details in the article.

clueQuest will be present at Strategy: The Table Top Gaming Event powered by MCM, between August 25th-28th. Join us at the International Center in Telford for a 3 day convention which aims to bring together table top gaming, digital only card games and online gaming at their finest.

An ethusiastic team of IT engineers & designers, one year of planning and testing and heaps of circuit boards,props & puzzles built from scratch: this is Revenge Of The Sheep,our newest mission, and here is a sneak peek into what it meant building it.

One laser beam, two clueQuest game hosts and an army of ready-to-be-super-spies kids. Last Saturday at Orkney House in Islington was EPIC! More details in the article.

Here at clueQuest we take Christmas seriously - so we wanted the first days of the festive season to find us fully prepared. Our halls are decked, the tree is up and Mr Q is feeling overwhelmingly generous: all teams who join us these holidays for some spy action fun will receive free personalised goodies. Find out more in the article.

We, at clueQuest, have hosted a lot of team building activities for various companies at our King’s Cross HQ and the demand for fun and ‘different’ team building activities such as ours continues to increase.

Our design team have always liked the idea of creating ‘mobile’ puzzles and challenges which could then be easily assembled and run from any location, so when Pan Macmillan, one of the UK’s leading book publishers, contacted us earlier this year to ask if we could create something that could be set up at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, in Harrogate, we said ‘YEAH’.

Last Sunday, Mr Q sent us (Jules, Richard and Robert) - three of his top Agents - to take on Fire Hazard's Citydash challenge. And this is our report.

Mr Q is joining Ribbon and Beard on a 10 000 mile adventure this summer across mountain ranges, deserts, and more barren and inhospitable lands...all in the name of a good cause! Did we mention that their vehicle is an old ambullance? Click to read more about their amazing journey and how you can help them reach their destination in the heart of Mongolia.

We are gutted with excitement - TripAdvisor awarded us the 2015 Certificate of Excellence! Find out what makes us one of London's best ways to spend an hour.

Agents, keep calm and carry on with your escape...this is not a warning - it's just the team from Fire Hazard blazing their way out of our PLAN52 mission. And they loved it.

#donatefordani raised over £3000 for Cancer Research UK. Find out more about Dani's charity raffle in the article

There truly seems to be a huge demand for this kind of entertainment, be it live or watched on TV. We hear it almost every day at our HQ when we ask a team "How was it?". "It was just like Crystal Maze."

We've donated a clueQuest live escape game experience to Lightsource - UK's leading solar energy company - for their charity auction event. And they raised £160 with our ticket.

It was a tough couple of weeks for the clueQuest team, but we finally did it! We moved our HQ from Liverpool Street to King's Cross!

This year we are participating in the Red Nose Day fundraising with our Mr Q Nose You campaign.

A new season and a new begining for the clueQuest team: Mr Q is preparing to run the final training missions tonight from our old HQ in Liverpool Street.