11th Hour Escape - 4th Dimension

The was one of my first escape rooms. It was the first for most of the rest of our team as well. We did this as part of a bachelor party weekend and were happy to make it out alive. 11th Hour is based in Austin and has expanded throughout Texas. This room was their original room here and they had it through many openings and closing due to fire code and other shenanigans. It's a well done room by people who 'get' it and designed for a group to have a good time. Many of the puzzles that we encountered here were very novel at the time being early to to escape room career. I wouldn't be surprised if they were the origin of several of them that I have now seen in other rooms. When we played, it had 2 game masters and they were on top of everything - a great experience. The room was well designed and well themed.

With:4 peopleCJ, Evan, Fred, Tony

Outcome:☺Win

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Xcape Adventures - Game Over

This was my first escape room and it got me hooked. This is one of the original escape rooms in the Dallas area.  I was quite surprised to find them in Mesquite which is not a central location.  Ellie and Fred had done one before and brought us along for this one.  I hear that they have decided not to stress the tie in with Pixels.  They mentioned that it was done in partnership with Sony.  I think that its a good idea to avoid pushing the tie in.  This one is still very creative and challenging anyway.

Price:$$20 per person

Theme:★★★This was a fun concept, but based on a movie (Pixels) that none of us had seen.

Quality:★★It is clear that a lot of effort was put into this, but it wasn't as well put together as some of the other rooms and a couple of puzzles took several tries as a result.

Difficulty:★★After having gone through more escape rooms since this one, I would put the difficulty of this one squarely in the middle. It wasn't the hardest but definitely had a few challenging puzzles in it.

Fun:★★★★We had a lot of fun in this room. It was bright and had challenges to make us think and was quite entertaining.

With:4 people Ellie, Evan, Fred, Judy

Outcome:☺Win

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