i-Exit - Party at the Studio

It could have been nice to have more folks in here with us, but we still managed to succeed despite probably looking like fools while we stared at the unimportant things and missed the important ones. It was an interesting time, and we succeeded, but I think that it was a little less than enthusiastically.

Price:$$$30 CAD per person

Theme:★★★★The room goes along very well with the back story for the room.

Quality:★★★Nicely built and maintained - we did have to try one or two things a couple of times.

Difficulty:★★★We had a hard time getting started, and even then things were very stop and go.

Fun:★★While some parts were fun, some were frustrating - very frustrating.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☺Win

Time Left:⏰9:22

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Find & Seek - Chapter 2: The Curse of Madame Zita's Curiosities

We got paired up with a great group and had a fun time in the room together. Everyone was willing to try things out until we came up with solutions, and it worked out well because we made it to number five on the leader board for this room!

Price:$$$26 CAD per person

Theme:★★★This is so quirky and fun - well built out and neat.

Quality:★★★★Things are well put together and everything worked exactly as it should (once we found out how it should).

Difficulty:★★Some nice treats in here - some of the clues are obvious early on and others build over time. Something for everyone.

Fun:★★★We had a great time - there was just so much going on, and the decor is neat and goes great with the theme.

With:7 peopleEvan, Judy (with five others)

Outcome:☺Win

Time Left:⏰Not available

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Smarty Pantz - Spies & Lies

I think we've stopped by here the last few times we've been in Vancouver, and I'm glad there are still some rooms here for us to look forward to on our next trip, too. We have had such great experiences here - their rooms are good, and the staff is amazing. This room is another good example of this - from the very beginning we had a good time and had a great introduction to the story (you will see it below - I laughed a LOT). Well thought out from start to finish, along with a puzzle in here that I think is one of Evan's favorite across all the rooms we've done (he lit up as soon as he figured out what to do with it).

Price:$$$25 CAD per person

Theme:★★★★★The theme is great, and made even better by the employees. Just...I am smiling now thinking about it.

Quality:★★★★So much attention to detail.

Difficulty:★★This was overall fairly easy to follow along to, assuming that you or your spouse doesn't leave something you need somewhere you don't think to look for it.

Fun:★★★★I laughed so hard at times that I couldn't breathe. Their staff did such a great job, especially with the introduction before we started, that I couldn't even answer questions they asked because I was laughing so hard.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☺Win

Time Left:⏰9:22 (45 minute room)

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Guess HQ - The Heist

This room was probably our worst escape room experience thus far, and really it isn't so much the fault of the room but the employees that interacted with us. We got pretty far to the end and then just couldn't open something even though we had the right code. After fifteen minutes of trying. And this isn't a type of lock we've never opened before, so when the employee told us that we were just doing it wrong and wouldn't show us how that was the case, it was really annoying. And then he just kept poking at us. In any case, given that I have opened this type of lock both before, and since, and there were instructions on the wall, and he slipped us more instructions under a door, we aren't convinced that we were the issue here. And if we were (again, doubtful) then the employee definitely should have handled this better. I think that even though we didn't get out, we could have been okay with that (we've lost other rooms) if the employee hadn't been a jerk about it or showed us what we missed.

Price:$$$30 CAD per person

Theme:★★★★This is actually pretty neat - some parts made us have bits of adrenaline and were just neat.  This was perhaps the most technologically interesting room we've done.

Quality:★The first parts were fine, other than it being clear people tried to open things that shouldn't be. However, spending fifteen minutes trying to do the same thing only to be told we don't know how to use a lock (see the number of rooms we've done to clear that up) was a bit annoying.

Difficulty:★★The puzzles in this room were not hard, but keeping from doing something wrong with them was an exercise in futility. The hardest thing was using some of the codes, not the puzzles.

Fun:★This was so frustrating that even though some parts were fine, debacles at the end made this overall a pretty big let down.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☹Loss

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SmartyPantz - Morning Never Comes

Again, we were given 45 minutes to complete this room, although we used more like 20 minutes because it was easy to get through. The parts that held us up the most were a broken puzzle. This would be a great room for those new to escape rooms, as there isn't really anything super tricky, but enough to be a slight challenge at least.

Price:$$$25 CAD per person

Theme:★★★★This had a good theme - great decor and seemed very realistic.

Quality:★There were a couple of broken things that led to us solving a puzzle at the wrong time and then having no idea what to do next without help.

Difficulty:★This was VERY easy - so easy that we didn't know until the person came in to tell us that we had won.

Fun:★★Really,with the broken items and how easy this was, it was a little anti-climatic at the end. Definitely made for those new to escape rooms.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☺Win

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Find and Seek - The Majestic Theatre

Another room in BC, another 45 minute escape room. We enjoyed many of the puzzles in here - in fact, there are at least three puzzles in this room we haven't seen in others that we've done (at least, not yet). There was a lot put into this room, and it was a great experience even though we didn't make it out. We really just got stuck on a puzzle that we've never been all that great with (it may have worked out with our normal escape room buddies there who rock at these). Also, a few of the puzzles could have been easier with more people, but we got through those fine with just two (they likely just took a few minutes longer). I also really like that the host explained to us how to finish the room - this is one of the best things I think rooms can do (especially when we were clearly tourists and couldn't come back and try again).

Price:$$$26 CAD per person

Theme:★★★This was good, but parts of this were better than others (I didn't for one minute forget we were in a mall).

Quality:★★★★Well done and they've done a great job keeping things in working order (unlike other rooms with similar ideas inside).

Difficulty:★★★★Some of the puzzles were quite tricky for us for a couple of reasons - we just aren't so great at a couple of those types and some of these would have been better with more than two people.

Fun:★★★This was enjoyable even though we didn't get out.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☹Loss

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SmartyPantz - Thirst for Murder

For this room, we were given 45 minutes to get out (this seemed to be the norm in BC), and we had plenty of time to succeed. From the introduction to the room, to the theme, to the puzzles, everything about this room was exceedingly well done and we had such a good time. Two people for this room was perfect, and there are some things in the room we keep thinking back to over time because there were just some creative and fun puzzles inside.

Price:$$$25 CAD per person

Theme:★★★★★From the staff bringing us to the room to the design to the props, everything about this room made you feel like you were really in the situation described.

Quality:★★★★★Everything worked perfectly and was just well put together.

Difficulty:★★★This was not the hardest room we've gone, but it definitely had some challenges and some things we've never seen before.

Fun:★★★★★This room was super fun! Enough to make us think, but enjoyable.

With:2 peopleEvan, Judy

Outcome:☺Win

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