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 room, you’d expect the success rate to be almost at 100%, right? Wrong! Our easiest room Cursed Carnival at 2 star difficulty rating has a 77% success rate, with 1406 teams escaping and 416 failing to escape. So even our easiest room is difficult and can be a struggle to escape from.

Sometimes the simplest puzzles can get a team stuck for a while, whereas another group will come in and complete it instantly. This is down to the atmosphere in the room, the music in the background and your own team mates stressing you out. I imagine our rooms would be a little easier without atmospheric music playing, but what fun would that be?!

Different rooms may feel more difficult than others depending on the people you decide to play with and the types of puzzle which are in the room. Speaking from personal experience: in the past, I have found a 3 star room more difficult than 4 star rooms. We have also had customers escape from a 4 star room and state that the 2 star room they’ve just played was more difficult than the 4 star room. This may be because if you enter a room knowing how “easy” it is, can make you overthink things and expect everything to be a walk in the park, when in reality, it’s still going to challenge your brain.

Now for the title of the blog; “I’m clever, I’ll get out in 10 minutes”, if we had £10 for every time we had heard a customer jokingly say this, we’d be pretty rich! If we had £10 every time we saw this quote ring true, we’d have nothing! The remainder of our rooms success rates are as follows: Wanted: Cowboys: 62.91%, Wanted: Indians 29.25%, Classified 56.07%, The Facility 45.46%, Shipwrecked 69.97% and The Heist 67.85%. Most of our rooms success rates are over 50%, with only 3 rooms being under this figure. So if you’d like to ease your way into our rooms, try our Cursed Carnival room first, but if you’d like to take on the challenge of our hardest room at your first attempt, feel free to get stuck into Sabotage!