Review of cQ ORIGENES - 11 months ago
My team of three escape room buddies have loved all the Professor BlackSheep escape rooms, and were very pleased to have cQ: Origenes be the first escape room we did once lockdown lifted.
The puzzles were varied and immersive - whoever custom-designed it did a really fantastic job of making challenges that would give us some great 'aha! that's so clever!' moments. Rowen was a fabulous host - she was really talented at knowing when to give us clues, so we never felt like we were stuck at any one point (though we were definitely rusty enough that we just managed to finish with 22 seconds to spare!). Absolutely recommending cluequest to anyone interested in escape rooms.
Really well-constructed room. Good mix o... more Really well-constructed room. Good mix of team puzzles and things to parallelize, and not too much guesswork to string things together, either. A few bits needed slightly more visual cues as to exactly what order you were expected to do things, e.g. the hand scanners, but on the whole some really innovative and collaborative puzzles which the whole team enjoyed. Difficult, though - even with a few seasoned veterans, we only had about 3 mins to go when we finished!
As ever, fun and infuriating. Found this... more As ever, fun and infuriating. Found this the hardest of the 4 escape rooms. Lots of clever puzzles and clues