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When Eurovision came to Breakout!

23/05/2023 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

May has been a huge month for Liverpool! The city welcomed over 500,000 visitors for the Eurovision Song Contest which saw the streets come alive with music and culture. Liverpool hosted on behalf of last year’s winner, Ukraine, and we did a fabulous job of bringing the party whilst celebrating all things Ukrainian! At Breakout Liverpool we knew that we needed to get involved… This was a huge opportunity to bring our Escape Rooms to a huge number of new people, including the stars of Eurovision themselves! Our PR team decorated our reception areas with Eurovision bunting and posters, then…

Don't Break Up … Break OUT!

14/02/2023 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Share the love this Valentine's Day with an escape room as your chosen date destination! We at Breakout believe that an escape room is the perfect place to spend quality time with your significant other. Being locked in a themed room for an hour solving puzzles and cracking codes is the best way to find out if a second date is on the cards! Our escape rooms are a great choice of activity for couples this Valentine's Day because you can combine your teamwork skills to successfully break out. We can guarantee that your relationship will be stronger after doing…

Our brand new room SUPERNOVA has launched!

16/08/2022 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

It’s been a long time coming, several setbacks and lockdowns meant that our newest room has been almost three years in the making - but it’s finally here! Supernova is an intergalactic adventure where you and your teammates must figure out how to fix your spaceship and get back on course before you fly directly into a supernova… The room looks AMAZING, with a special surprise which completely changes how you see the room itself - it is bound to immerse you in the story and make you feel like a real astronaut. Don’t forget to dress up in the…

3 Reasons why Liverpool is a Great Place to Work!

14/03/2022 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Liverpool is a maritime city in the North-West of England. Starting from the 19th century, it has been one of the most crucial trading gateways of the United Kingdom. Today Liverpool still has one of the leading British economies with its major in service sector industries. In this blog post, you will find three main reasons why Liverpool is a leading industrial city and why it is a great place to live and work! Shopping Paradise The first benefit of living and working in Liverpool is its developed shopping industry. As well as being a fun past-time, shopping is a…

AquAid Partnership - How Breakout is helping The Africa Trust!

02/11/2021 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Here, at Breakout Liverpool, we are aware that keeping our team hydrated will aid them to perform at their very best throughout the work day. As a result, we decided to invest in http://www.aquaidwatercoolers.co.uk watercoolers from AquAid. Our unique relationship with AquAid has also given our company the opportunity to help those less fortunate than ourselves, because with each purchase an automatic donation is made to The Africa Trust. These funds are used to build ‘Elephant Pumps’ - a modified version of an age old Chinese rope pulley system. One such pump is currently being installed in Africa on our behalf and it will be a much needed source…

Reasons to take a Staycation in Liverpool!

14/10/2021 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Can you feel the excitement in the air? That’s the sound of tourism back and thriving in Liverpool! Due to the events of the past 18 months, it might be a bit difficult to plan a holiday away from the UK at the moment. But no need to worry, the year of the Staycation is upon us, and Liverpool has so much to offer! Firstly, we’re here! Breakout Liverpool is going from strength to strength, with so many escape rooms to play we’ve always got a challenge for you! Whether you want to bring friends, family, work colleagues, or your…

A review of our first edition of Breakout Unboxed!

04/02/2021 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

With the next edition of Breakout Unboxed about to launch, we thought we’d share with you a review of our first game, written by one of our Game Operators - Tom from Liverpool! - When I first opened our Unboxed game ‘Locked up in Lapland’, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Would it capture the excitement of a real life escape game? Would the puzzles be too hard? Would it definitely get me in the Christmas spirit?! I had many questions that I’m sure anyone who’s considering playing the game will have too, so here I will review…

Are you wondering what could be a safe, COVID secure yet extremely fun activity to do in Liverpool? Well, it’s Breakout!

03/12/2020 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

With the current restrictions in place, Liverpool doesn’t seem like a very fun place to be rightnow… However, here at Breakout we believe that people can follow all the rules and still enjoythemselves by playing one of our rooms! We are asked all the time about the measures we’veput in place to keep everyone safe, and this blog post will outline exactly why Breakout is one ofthe safest activities out there at the moment! First of all, the recommended group sizes for our rooms is perfect for your household or supportbubble, we allow between 2 and 5 players in our…

RECLASSIFIED is coming to Liverpool!

09/09/2020 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

As part of our reopening after Lockdown we have implemented so many new changes, cleaning thoroughly is like second nature to us now but the real excitement hit when we heard that one of our Manchester site’s most popular games, Reclassified, would be moving to Liverpool! This exciting new upgrade to our spy themed Classified room is a welcome boost to us all, and we can’t wait to run games of it for all our customers! First of all, we must have a moment of silence for an OG room that has a special place in our hearts; Classified was…

Out... then back in again: Why escape rooms are the PERFECT post-lockdown activity!

28/07/2020 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

What a bizarre year so far... The world as we know it seems to have completely changed after coming to a standstill for months. Nobody could have seen this coming, but as restrictions are lifted and we can finally begin to experience something like normality again, it’s a chance to do all the things we missed most.Believe it or not, the perfect antidote for months of lockdown life could be…escape rooms! It might seem strange, to voluntarily lock yourself in a room just as we’re finally allowed to leave our homes, but escape rooms are actually perfect for slowly getting…

What to expect from our Play at Home game!

11/06/2020 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Escape Room Online Review! Since the beginning of lockdown we’ve been looking for ways to entertain ourselves, and we’ve been missing the extremely addictive puzzles that you’d find in our escape rooms. So you can imagine how pleased we were to find out that Breakout has partnered with Escape Room Online to present to us a brand new online escape room to play with on up to 6 other devices! During lockdown we have been learning how to use various video chat platforms, sometimes to play quizzes or just to have a catch up - but now the stakes were…

An interview with the creator and owner of Breakout

24/04/2020 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

1. First things first, what inspired you to start Breakout? The reason I started Breakout is that I've always had an affinity for puzzle. My favourite TV program growing up was the Crystal Maze and I've always loved the puzzle element of computer games such as the dungeons in Zelda. From a personal side, prior to opening Breakout I worked in the night-time event industry for over 8 years and was getting pretty fed up of it so wanted a complete career change which Breakout has definitely been. Although creating new games can be quite a challenge, it's something that I really enjoy…

Christmas Party Time!

18/09/2018 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

So it’s nearing the end of the year, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting darker. Entering Autumn only means that we’re one step closer to Christmas. Christmas means many different things for many different people, but one thing that’s certain is the Christmas do with work. This year, you might be bored of the office party or the sit-down meal – so why not try something different at Breakout Liverpool! We offer a unique experience, with individuals being locked inside a room for sixty minutes and having to solve a series of puzzles, riddles and clues…

Sick of getting Dad socks for Fathers Day?

15/06/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Sick of getting the generic socks present for your Dad? We have the solution! Why not treat him this Father’s Day by buying a Breakout gift voucher and locking him up in a room, instead? We’re aware that one of the greatest difficulties is booking a room in for a specific time (especially one in which suits everyone!). The good news is, if your lives are as busy as ours are, you can now purchase a gift voucher for your dad, so that he can reclaim the room whenever his schedule permits. Gift vouchers can be easily purchased on…

MCM London Comic Con!

25/05/2018 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Amongst the Orange is the New Black cast, Lucifer stars and The Walking Dead crew, if you're lucky enough, you might spot our very own Breakout staff at this week's MCM London Comic Con! Congregating from Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester, our Breakout managers from these sites will be manning our very own stall at the Comic Con event. Following our subsequent success at Birmingham Comic Con, we will be utilising three 'pop-up' games, all of which will last 30 minutes (differing slightly from our standard 1-hour escape room games). A brief overview of the games can be displayed below: Vigilante Story: Your friend has been acting…

The History of escape rooms!

16/04/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Ever wonder how escape rooms started? Well we have created a short summary telling you all aboutit! In 2004 a video game of escape rooms was created called ‘Crimson room’, Takoa Kato who isfounder of the Japanese company SCARP created a live version created in Kyoto in 2007 after beinginspired by a girl playing an online escape room. It became a popular tourist attraction andsuggested to be the start of them spreading throughout Japan and into Southeast Asia.Parapark in Budapest, Hungary was the first city in Europe to create a live escape game by the ownerof the Hungarian company Attila…

A day in the life of a Game Operator

26/02/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

As you can probably imagine, our Game Operators see a lot of weird and wonderful things happen when running games for our lovely customers (some stories a lot weirder than others!). This blog will feature stories across our Breakout Cardiff, Breakout Liverpool, Breakout Manchester and Breakout Chestersites, and will provide you with some insider information as to what really goes on in our rooms behind closed doors. We will start with the most 2017 that happened to us: “The year of Facebook Live” story. As Game Operator Shannon was congratulating her group on escaping, one of the customers pulled out her iPhone and went live…

A day in the life of a Game Operator

26/02/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

'Tis the season to be scary!

23/10/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

The first orange leaves have fallen from the trees, which means Halloween is just around the corner. Get your pumpkins carved and your faces painted, because Breakout are celebrating in style this year! Breakout Liverpool have spookified Shipwrecked ready for Halloween celebrations this year, look out for cobwebs, creepy ghouls and maybe a few hidden surprises along the way... Can you find Captain Chivers' treasure before his ghost finds you? If you've already played Shipwrecked, then we have some ready-to-scare rooms that are creepy all year round; The Facility and Vacancy. The Facility is based in the laboratory of Doctor…

Family days out in Liverpool

21/08/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

The summer holidays are almost over, and with two more weeks of freedom the kids are bound to be getting bored before school starts up again! Worry not, as we have got a list of things to fill a few days in Liverpool, from food to things to do and see. If you're on a budget, all the museums in Liverpool are free to enter. The World Museum has five floors full of interesting stuff, such as dinosaurs, insects, an aquarium and a planetarium, so there's definitely going to be something to keep everyone in the family interested. Just up…

Breakout Liverpool is doubling in size!

11/07/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

If you haven’t heard by now, our big announcement is that we have acquired the first floor of our current location on Sir Thomas Street. We have been trying to keep this news on the down low for a while, but we’re now ecstatic that the cat is out of the bag! Now that we’ve got a whole new floor in the building, this news means that we’re doubling in size. As we speak, the builders are doing what they do best and working hard to get the rooms ready for the grand opening on Friday 21st July ! From…

Bring your family to Breakout!

10/07/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

The Summer holidays are just around the corner, and unless you're one of the lucky people who will be going on holiday, then it can be hard to find activities to fill those 6 weeks with the whole family at home. If you think you could stand being locked in a room with your kids for an hour, then Breakout is definitely a great activity for everyone in the family to enjoy! The puzzles can really get the whole team thinking and working together, and is the perfect indoor activities for those rainy days when you'd be otherwise stuck at…

"I'm clever I'll get out in 10 minutes"

05/05/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

From time to time, our customers tend to underestimate the difficulty of our escape rooms. We respect the bravery of the teams who have never played an escape room before but want to tackle our most difficult room. It’s not impossible and has been done before, but the odds are stacked against them. Statistically, our most difficult room (Sabotage) currently stands at a 27% success rate. Meaning that out of 2,468 teams that have attempted it, only 669 have escaped! Now you’d expect this from a 5 star difficulty rated room, but when you see a 2 star difficulty rated…

Breakout's next Charity Day is Thursday 30th March 2017

15/03/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

It’s that time of year again where Breakout try to pay back to the community. The two charity days we hold each year are really important to Breakout and who we are, because we’re aware we wouldn’t be here without the people of the cities we’re based in. We held our first charity day in April 2015 at our flagship Manchester branch and each time we’ve done one since it’s got bigger and bigger, and now involves the sales of all of our rooms becoming charitable donations and a way of getting local charities actively involved in what we do.…

Things to do on the perfect day in Liverpool

01/03/2017 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Liverpool is a city with rich heritage and history, and since its big revamp due to the capital of culture title in 2008, it is now currently a thriving city filled with all types of new businesses popping up around the centre and surrounding areas. For this blog we have gathered the wisdom of our game operators to find out their favourite things to do around the city as well as any hidden gems they may know of. With this information, we have been able to create this post which outlines the perfect day and night in Liverpool. Every day…

Red Bull at Breakout

13/12/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Every year the giants that are Red Bull create hundreds of fantastic competitive events. These span a plethora of activities, such as surfing, skating, the Flugtag and, a personal favourite, the Soap Box Race, to name a few. There are thousands of competitive events around the world, but Red Bull manage to bring something extra to theirs and create an infectious atmosphere that audiences are drawn into even if they're watching on a screen thousands of miles away. This year Red Bull created the M1NDG4M3RS event 'Mission Enoch', which involved releasing some brain games / mental strategy puzzles online and ranking people…

Why not lock up a loved one this Christmas?

07/12/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Stuck for Christmas present ideas? Why not try Breakout! Christmas is fast approaching, and everyone knows at least one person who is difficult to buy gifts for. Whether you're sick of buying soap, candles and socks, a game at Breakout can be a great alternative present. Our games are the perfect gift for that fussy friend or family member - we lock them in a room for an hour and test their brain power with our puzzles, riddles and clues to see if they can escape. It's much more exciting than yet another rainy-day boardgame, with the bonus of our…

Keep fresh & carry on

04/11/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

As you may have noticed, October was a busy month for all 3 of our Breakout sites. We opened a new room in each city we are based in. We opened The Heist in Liverpool, Manchester opened Captured and Cardiff opened Disturbed. The Heist is the 7th room to come to Liverpool and throws you into a scenario in which you are a team of elite bank robbers in the midst of your most daring heist ever. You have reached the legendary vault of the Locke and Quay Treasury - rumoured to house the fabled private depository of one of…

Breakout Liverpool is the perfect family activity

01/08/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

With the summer holidays quickly approaching, it can be difficult to find fun and interesting activities to do with your family to keep your children entertained over the summer months. Since the British summer mostly consists of rain, this in turn makes the task a lot more difficult for you parents out there, but don't worry as we are here to help you. We are a fun indoor activity which will keep your children entertained whilst also getting their brains active too! What better way to bond as a family than being locked inside a room together for 60 minutes…

Birthday Reflections

31/05/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

It was recently Breakout’s second birthday as a company, this tends to be a time where we sit back and consider the year and our time in general. For those of you that have been with Breakout Liverpool since our beginning, you may remember that we are the second Breakout centre in the UK; we actually started in Manchester with two games (John Monroe’s Detective Office and Virus), three members and staff and a director. For those of you that have only found us more recently, that was genuinely where we began. What people may not know is that John…

Charitable Connections

19/04/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Hello, On Thursday 21st April 2016, Breakout Manchester and Liverpool are hosting a charity day which we would love you to be part of. In 2015, Breakout contacted some local charities and gave them our rooms for a day. This altered nothing from our end of the as these rooms would be running anyway, we took them off the booking system, told the charities our prices and let them book the slots themselves and take the money we would have received as a direct donation. In both Manchester and Liverpool we have worked with charities such as The Christie,…

Dare you try to break the curse?

14/03/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

The carnival is coming to Liverpool but its cursed – do you dare to break the curse? You and your friends have won yourself a prize at the local carnival but it seems to be a prize with a difference. Since you took it home you've been plagued by strange dreams accompanied by a haunting voice that continues to tell you to return your prize within 7 days. You return to the site of the carnival on the 7th day and enter the old repair shed where you must solve the mystery with only an hour left before the clock strikes midnight. Can you…

Breakout Liverpool 5 rooms!

07/01/2016 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Here at Breakout Liverpool we have 5 completely themed rooms for you to choose from. Ranging from 3 star to 5 star difficulty. So we have plenty of choice for hardcore puzzlers and beginners. Shipwrecked: This room is great for beginners and is a 3 star level difficulty. It is also a family friendly room so is great for children to get involved. Classified: This room is good for players who haven't played before who want a challenge but not too much of one. This is a 4 star difficulty level and is our most popular room. Wanted: This room…

Charity Day #2

17/11/2015 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Last month Breakout hosted another charity day across both of our sites. Here in Liverpool all our proceeds went toward the Imagine If Trust and in our Manchester site we supported The Christie. Lots of fun was had by all who cam to play and in Liverpool we raised a total of £870 for Imagine If, and the two charity teams both managed to Breakout! Imagine If A Liverpool based charity, Imagine If support various areas of the community, seeking to cover a large range of issues and improve the lives of those they reach. Spanning from raising money for…

The most FUN team building activity!!

26/08/2015 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Breakout isn't just great for friends and families it is great for work colleagues and team building events too! How is Breakout good for this? Our rooms are perfect for team building activities as it requires groups to get stuck in and work as a team. The puzzles require mental ability including numerical, problem solving, riddles and common sense. In all of our rooms we have CCTV to give assistance throughout the game. If a team look like they are struggling or need pushing in the right direction we can send them cryptic clues via a television screen with an…

Manager's Stories

03/08/2015 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Being a manager here at Breakout we get to see and hear some very interesting things, from and staff and customers. When one of our managers Kate first started she thought she was doing a good deed and started to water the plants. These plants are in fact fake and she didn't realise until someone else told her. Kate also used mouth spray for a week thinkng it was hand sanitiser. Another highlight was when she was told to tidy our storage cupboard and came across a brick, instead of throwing it away she decided to tidy it away in…

Breakout Franchise

26/06/2015 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

Here at Breakout we like to keep things close and personal, that's why 6 of our rooms have been created internally by Breakout Manchester and Breakout Liverpool. Over the past year Breakout Manchester and Liverpool have become a one of the most succesful escape rooms in the UK and we believe that's down to the excellent design flow and unique story lines that are the key to our success. You can now purchase any of our 6 rooms to franchise and start up your own escape room anywhere in the world. We will help you every step of the way by adapting each room to…

Breakout Liverpool's New Room- Wanted

01/06/2015 | By Breakout Liverpool | Category News

So here at Breakout Liverpool we decided that 3 rooms weren't enough so decided to open up a 4th! This room is extra special though as there are two stories to it and you can choose which side to play, Cowboy or Indian. Having these options gives the room replay value which is very rare in the escape game world. The Cowboy side has around a 70% success rate which means it's a great room to start with if you are new to escape rooms. The Indian side has around a 5% success rate which is proving to be one…

Breakout Liverpool Blog Entry No.1

30/03/2015 | By Breakout | Category News

Having spent the last ten months challenging the people of Manchester we broke out on Saturday 7th March and headed on a road trip down the A580. We ended up at Breakout Liverpool where we thought it would be fun to challenge you too! We are a live escape room game based on Sir Thomas Street where we allow members of the public to attempt to break out of our rooms. You have 60 minutes to solve a series of different puzzles and clues and attempt to escape, it’s a race against time and a test of your patience but…