Professor Puzzle | Escape from Grand Hotel | Puzzle | Ages 12+ | 2+ Players

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The first puzzle worked well for onboarding players. It wasn’t too challenging. Through it we understood how Escape from the Grand Hotel wanted us to play it. It's always an excellent service with brilliant products at a very competitive price - will use again! The gameplay took some clear inspiration from the ThinkFun tabletop escape games, using location envelopes and paper components to tell a puzzle-driven narrative. Their approach to answer verification was clever. We encountered some taxonomy inconsistencies within the in-game instructions. The way that it referred to things sometimes shifted. This got confusing.

Sadly I felt a little let down by this room and I can't put my finger on why. It could have been that the final stage tech wasn't as smooth as the rest or maybe just that our expectations were too high after enjoying their other rooms. It’s the big re-opening of the Grand Hotel but nothing is quite what it seems in this immersive escape room game! When the Blossoms’ glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand reopening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons! Invite your guests, set your scene and get ready to host a night of fun and intrigue. The ultimate quest? To uncover the dark, hidden secret of The Grand Hotel …This matchbox game is filled with difficult puzzles, brain-teasers, challenges and exercises for you to work your way out of a seemingly cursed hotel. What haunting secrets will you uncover in finding your way out of the Grand Hotel's history?

So, you love escape rooms and you're excellent at solving puzzles. You make Sudoku look like naughts and crosses. But, you're yet to find a board game that will let you exploit your talents... until now. Say hello to Escape from the Grand Hotel. Or, should you say goodbye to the Grand Hotel? We suppose it depends if you can escape! If you type something in the 'Text to display' box, that will be displayed instead of any star rating. As for the puzzles they were a mixture of “too easy” and “too illogical.” We rattled through most of the game without any trouble until we hit the coded fax puzzle. The game provided duplicate copies of this puzzle, so we could both pore over it. We found it to be one of the most tedious puzzles we’ve ever done. It made absolutely no sense, even after reading the hint and seemed to solved purely by searching. (When we finished the game we read the supposed answer and it still made no sense!) The Grand Hotel was once the place for the rich and famous to visit. After decades of disrepair, the mysterious and wealthy Blossom family had restored the hotel to its former glory. Kurt Blossom and his beautiful wife, Lauren had invited us to the hotel’s grand reopening. We were ready for a night to remember – little did we suspect it would be for all the wrong reasons!

Escape from the Grand Hotel”arrived in a beautifully designed box with quality printed material. Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things. Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty. If you’re comfortable with tabletop escape room puzzles, this was moderately difficult. If you aren’t comfortable with the format, the limited hinting could make this game quite challenging.

The game itself is very linear, and I think probably would have been better with less people (2-3 I think would work fantastically with the room) Professor Puzzle provided duplicate copies of one of the more tedious puzzles so that more players could participate.Continuing our “travels” while isolated at home in London, we took a trip to a Grand Hotel. This is the first Professor Puzzle Escape Room in a box game we have tried. This is a 90 minutes escape game. There are some interesting ideas and a lot of great execution in Escape from the Grand Hotel. If you really enjoy tabletop escape games, this one had a lot to offer. However, there were too many little flaws and gaps that got amplified by the limited hint system for me to comfortably recommend this to a tabletop escape game newbie. Who is this for?