Coming soon to Norwich: Cryptic Escape

Cryptic Escape logoEast Anglia’s first stationary exit game arrives imminently; Cryptic Escape, of Norwich, is now open for bookings from tomorrow, Friday 10th July. This site has been in touch with the man behind the new game for some time and really looking forward to its launch. The location is tremendous: go to Norwich Cathedral’s main entrance, turn around and you’ll see a white building with an external wooden frame, thought to be almost half a millennium old. (Jailbreak! at Oxford Castle sputters at the newcomer.) Augustine Steward House, where a Tudor merchant who was the city’s mayor three times once lived, hosts Cryptic Escape, along with a number of other businesses.

The site is launching with one game, though two more are promised to be added soon. The first game is a very popular Mazebase classic, The Laboratory of Dr. Lev Pasted; it’s also available at Puzzlair in Bristol, but that’s a good couple of hundred miles away. This is the secret hideout and laboratory of the mysterious Romanian geneticist and biologist Dr. Lev Pasted. In his late years he focused his experiments on some kind of blood elixir. The formula is gone, so has the doctor. Some say, that the secret blood serum is still inside the lab hidden somewhere. It’s a 60-minute game for teams of two to five.

In the near future, the site will shortly add The Treasure of Green Beard, in which The players have 60 minutes to find the hidden treasures of the famous pirate Captain Green Beard. The treasure is well hidden in his old hideaway, where he lived while he wasn’t sailing and robbing around the Caribbean seas. A little further down the line, you may be able to get to know The Steampunk Explorer, the tale of The famous explorer Thelonius Winter, who travelled from Victorian time, into the future to retrieve a mystical and powerful relic, then returned back to the past. More news when they become available.

The site charges £40 for a team of two and £10 for each extra player, so teams of five are charged just £70. The site’s promotional video is rather fun, too!

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