Clue Chase - New York

Pros: The room was decorated to theme and had some generally clever and mostly logical puzzles. The game master did their job and assisted as needed. We would have said this was a solid escape room experience had it not been for the company's unfortunate policy of grouping strangers together and most specifically adult players with random groups of children. See further gripes below. 

Cons: We were once again in what is becoming a disturbing trend, placed, without our prior knowledge or consent, with a group of children. This was my face:  :-(  

The children ranged in age from 8 to 12. The point is that most of the time was spent trying to ignore their high-pitched, excited screaming followed quickly and repeatedly by their plaintive wailing about being bored or confused. When they weren't generally breaking things or moving essential clues and tools, they were simply: there, quite literally standing in the way, impeding all progress. So again we ask escape room owners: Why? Seriously, why? We know, we know it's about money. But seriously create a separate, kid-friendly escape room experience for these birthday parties and allow child-less adults to play separately. Otherwise, you will essentially drive adults away from escape rooms and end up moderating children's birthday parties FOREVER. Think about this: FOREVER. Oh and don't forget to childproof your new kid-friendly rooms, we noticed that they tend to break everything. 

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