Exit - The Mysterious Museum

We found the book way too small to play at a table with 4 people. Some of the steps are kind of impossible without the extra clues. Maybe for people who play this kind of games they are obvious, but it was our first exit game. I'd definitely make the book bigger for that more players can see what's in there.

I bought this for one of my sons as a Christmas present and we loved it! It took our family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children aged 13 and 12) 1 hour and 20 minutes to solve, with some hints and 1 solution card used on the way. It’s very similar to a real Escape Room where you have to often think laterally or look at things in a different way. The clues were creative and just challenging enough to keep us guessing without having us get discouraged. We have the Lab one as well (Christmas present for our other son) and look forward to playing that one too!

We’ve done live escape rooms before and like logic problems, but we are by no means brainiacs. I bought this for date night with my husband. It’s our FIRST ‘at the table’ escape room so we had no idea what to expect. It took the two of us 3.5 hours with one clue and we only took it because at the time we convinced ourselves that there was some sort of error (there was NOT, by the way... the game is flawless). Even with the clue we weren’t getting it so we had to take the answer. We totally understood it (it was actually something we had tried) but we still weren’t seeing it. Later we had an “ah-ha!” moment and I decided the seeming error was one of the best riddles - super funny to me, but mostly because I felt like a dumb-head, which is fine. Well played, game makers. Well played. Technically it’s a one-time and done game, BUT my intention was to pass it along to our friends and I feel like we were successfully able to do that. The only real alterations they got from us (no spoilers) was that we folded something that obviously had to folded and cut two things that obviously had to be cut. Everything else that required cutting and/or tearing we could figure out without defacing the game. It’s also very simple to reset the cards for the next players. But WE can’t play it again as the riddles do not change. How many players: One could do it. Two is perfect. Any more, though and I don’t see how everyone could be doing something. Sometimes there is stuff to pass around or look at but since only one thing is going on at any given time, each of us needed to look at the same thing simultaneously. Caveat: Everything is surprisingly small (even the box). Some of the cards took effort to read because the writing was very small. I got my bifocals a couple times, but fortunately my husband’s younger eyes could see them better. I imagined it would take 2 hours, but as I mentioned it actually took us 3.5. We feel like you could stop the timer before the next riddle and easily walk away and return to the game another day if you wanted to. Next time we will probably do that. Personally, I didn’t mind the time, though - it’s refreshing to do something that doesn’t require electronics and keeps you engaged. My husband is slow and methodical. Personally, I am impatient and frustrate easily, BUT I wanted this game and went into it with a good attitude and sort of knew what to expect. I LOVED IT. However, if you cannot quell your impatience, or tend to give up easily, this game may not be for you. Move on. If you like the escape room concept: BUY. THIS. GAME. ! I have another in this series coming. It claims to be more difficult, so we’ll see!