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Sorry to necro an old thread, but it seems like these "escape" games have been growing more and more popular. I've been hearing good things about Xcape Vancouver.
I havent tried Exit yet however xcape was pretty fun. I had a group of 6 and I tried to book viral factor 1 week in advance but the only mode available was Dark Treasures which was rated the hardest difficulty and it has a low percent success rate. Lets just say we experienced it first hand on why it had a slim success rate. Each game we get 3 hints unless your a member you'll get two extra hints. Whenever we would get stuck, we would hold a "help" sign in front of the security camera. Depending on who the staffs are, some give good hints while others give either vague or bad hints. All in all, the service was good and the game was fun. The best part is at the end where we take a group photo with a Fail xcape or an Epic xcape sign! Oh and for cellphones, we have to place them in a lock box and the most responsible participants will carry the key until the end of the game.
Heres some tips for Dark Treasure if anyone wants to be one of the few to successfully steal 9 treasures on their first try!
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So we were split into two teams whether its stacked or even players and each team had a walkie talkie. There are two rooms, one deals with mathematics skills while the other one deals with puzzle solving. And when i say puzzle solving, i literally mean it. A 100 piece puzzle that my group couldnt finish within 45 minutes. The clues that are found in one room doesnt necessarily mean its theirs, it could be for the other room, so communication is a big role. For my team, we successfully stole 0 treasure and we were also accidentally hinted that after a team clears a room, there would be a few more rooms.
I thought exit was bad for props and whatnot. Went to xcape. Viral factor was viral fail. Looked like it was a kindergarten science lab. The website picture hypes it up big time.Windows were boarded up with paper half off. Scary music from a music player even though the room was a bore fest. Most of the riddles had nothing to do with science. We also finished it easily. The stupid grabbing crane didn't even work. Hardest part of xcape was finding the damn place. Went to freeing and it definitely had the best puzzles/props but the location sucks Posted via RS Mobile
I've been to EXIT and they are $24.14 after tax. So I have no idea where you got the over $25.xx idea from...
Oh, one thing, I know nobody really cared or know much about taxes, EXIT only takes one tax (GST) and not PST whereas Xcape Vancouver take both our GST and PST into their cost. In Canada, we only pay GST for places that provides services and PST in stores or places where they are actually selling products, and of course they would have to give a report back to the government about how much taxes they've been collecting. As game facilities like EXIT and Xcape Vancouver, it's reasonable that they're taking our GST, but NOT PST. Quite a few of my friends also noticed they got charged PST too from Xcape Vancouver, it's only a matter of time when the government would find out about this act...Especially if they're taking the PST money into their own pockets...(which no one would know really)
Ever since then, Xcape Vancouver had lost all of my friends and my trust, and would never go back again; no matter how great their games are, it is quite deceiving.
I'm an accountant and I found your post boring. Tough life, suck it up.
I'm curious to try this one day. Seems like a fun alternative thing to do. Is there much replay value to these? Anyone here actually go there frequently?
Going to Freeing Canada on Wednesday. I'll give a review of my experience after.
(I went to e-exit a few months back, so this will be my 2nd time trying these type of games)
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Tried the ship. Got to the second room. Couldn't figure out how to open the large box with 5 alphabet code. Fuck Posted via RS Mobile
Yeah got to the same spot, had one hint left. Girl gave us a hint that was a step ahead so we spent our last 12 minutes working on the wrong puzzle. Basically it had to do with the box connected to the wall with all the warning labels that say don't touch $1000 fine. Basically we ignored the box on the wall because of all the warning signs and were told to ignore anything with a warning label, but it was part of the game. Dumb
Fun factor - 7/10
Organization - 6/10
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Sorry to necro an old thread, but it seems like these "escape" games have been growing more and more popular. I've been hearing good things about Xcape Vancouver.
Anyone have feedback on Xcape? Any tips?
Xcape was pretty good, went with 10 ppl, had a groupon deal
tried the hardest room, which was 2 rooms and we had to split into 2 groups and try to work together. was no where close to getting out but it was damn fun
I have a friend plotting a similar style event. It would be like real life clue. There would be a recent murder where everyone coming to the dinner would be a suspect and everyone is inviestigating each other subtly. Everyone would have their own given backstory and basically the idea is to either not get found out or find the murderer. Would take a lot of acting skillz but it's basically free aside from the meal.
Yeah got to the same spot, had one hint left. Girl gave us a hint that was a step ahead so we spent our last 12 minutes working on the wrong puzzle. Basically it had to do with the box connected to the wall with all the warning labels that say don't touch $1000 fine. Basically we ignored the box on the wall because of all the warning signs and were told to ignore anything with a warning label, but it was part of the game. Dumb
Fun factor - 7/10
Organization - 6/10
there was 4 of us, so i left 3 ppl to do the other shit while i was figuring that 1000 dollar fine box. u still cant open it.
Spoiler!
i figure it might be magnetic like the ring showing the 4044 or whatever it was in the first room. anyway, couldnt figure out how to open the big box, and couldnt figure out how to open the 1000 fine box"
now the question is... if i ever do go back, is it worth it to pay the 25 bux to finish that room, (there's only 1 more room after that room im pretty sure), or spend the money on a new room that i probably wont solve in 1 time either...
there was 4 of us, so i left 3 ppl to do the other shit while i was figuring that 1000 dollar fine box. u still cant open it.
Spoiler!
i figure it might be magnetic like the ring showing the 4044 or whatever it was in the first room. anyway, couldnt figure out how to open the big box, and couldnt figure out how to open the 1000 fine box"
now the question is... if i ever do go back, is it worth it to pay the 25 bux to finish that room, (there's only 1 more room after that room im pretty sure), or spend the money on a new room that i probably wont solve in 1 time either...
Here's a hint. Getting that box open is a 2-3 person job.
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Ive been to Exit and Trapped. Both are fun but i think i prefer Exit. Id do theses much more often but its alil too expensive to be doing this on a regular basis but ill probably still do it.
Just came back from xcape for the second time. This place is utter shit. I can't believe people go there and play.. The riddles are damn near impossible, and most of them have nothing to do with the room. No wonder they give you 3 hints. Love hearing the story at the beginning. Worst English ever. Yes I'm hating, but if I'm spending $20+ for 45 minutes, I don't want to walk out of there feeling like I got hosed.
Exit is the same thing. Riddles have nothing to do with the room you're in. Terrible English. Decor is mediocre at best
Freeing is definitely the best one of the ones available. However, the two I played there were straight out of a movie. Pretty much everything was copied from shutter island and black swan. Would definitely recommend freeing but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere Posted via RS Mobile
So I went to Freeing Canada today. It wasn't very busy there, in fact, I think my group was the only people there.
The staff was friendly and the service was good.
Because there was no groups booked after us,
we were able to decide whether to go with the Time Space theme as we had initially planned,
or try the Black Swan which was also available.
We weren't sure which room would be more suitable for our tastes, so we asked for more info on the rooms,
and they were pretty open to discuss a bit of how the rooms were like, such as were they going to be in the dark,
was the group going to be split up into two, were they going to be searching for clues or logic solving kind of puzzles, etc.
Since I've only been to e-exit before, I can only do a comparison with them.
Unlike e-exit, Freeing doesn't bother blindfolding you before entering the room.
At Freeing, they give you a quick backstory for your room, and once they walk you into the room,
they give you 45 mins and lock the door behind.
Also, instead of giving you up to 3 hints that you can use any time like in e-exit,
Freeing has 3 hidden "hint" cards that you have to find. Once you find all 3 of them, you may redeem them for 1 hint.
Although the cards should be pretty easy to find...
The room I chose was just a single room. And because you don't get blindfolded before entering,
it should be pretty obvious how many rooms there are for whichever one you end up doing.
spoilers about the room, and experience with the staff (without any solutions revealed):
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I ended up choosing Black Swan, because it was one of the easier rooms they offered, and we didn't need to split up into 2 groups.
The staff gave us a quick backstory and instructions on where not to find the hints,
such as not to bother looking behind "X" and "Y" because those are just fixed props.
They seemed to be more genuine in wanting you to escape, rather than to just tease you with a "sucker, you'll never escape" kind of attitude.
Once the debriefing is done, they open the room door, and once inside, they set the 45 minute timer, and lock the door.
The room was pretty small, and my first impression was, "That's it??" It was rather bland, and didn't give off the atmosphere I was expecting.
Also, this one's full of luggage/locker locks, and the game is designed in a linear fashion. So you open one lock to find the next clue to open the next lock, etc.
The story is a murder case, so besides escaping out of the room (which doesn't exactly tie into the story logically),
you're also trying to figure out the mystery of the murder.
But the puzzles were creative even if they were only for getting combination numbers. I wasn't bored as long as we weren't completely stumped.
Unfortunately... We found all the obvious items within the first 3 minutes. And then we unlocked one thing and got stuck for the next 40 mins.
Although the 3 clue cards are pretty easy to find, as they aren't locked in anything, we overlooked and missed one of them the entire time.
Meaning we never used the intercom to ask for our 1 hint.
With 2 mins left, the staff came in cause they felt so bad for us and told us where the 3rd clue card was.
She gave us our hint, and gave us an additional 10 mins. That one hint actually got us "rolling",
and we blitzed through 90% of the room in the next 10 mins.
When our time was up, the staff really wanted to give us a chance to finish as we were already on the last puzzle.
We were slightly stumped though, but she kept nudging us with more subtle hints until we got the last combo to escape the room.
It took us about another 5 minutes, we pretty much got a whole hour.
I assume they really had no more bookings for the rest of the night to be so generous.
None the less, that made it much better for us. Had we not got that additional 10 mins, we probably would have left pretty bitter.
Overall, not a bad experience, and I would probably come back here again to try the other rooms eventually.
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Went to Exit for the first time yesterday, and we had a lot of fun. $24 was hard to muster at first, but was well worth the experience, and left me wanting more.
We had the prison. Apparently they change up the puzzles and whatnot every so often, so my prison experience might be different from somebody who went in the months previous.
I highly recommend challenging yourselves if you haven't gone yet!
Prison spoilers for those who would like to know about our experience-
Spoiler!
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As part of the prison experience, we had a group of four that was locked into two separate cells. We had the same combination for both locks, and we had tally marks in both prison cell walls, as well as descriptions of what type of inmate was housed in each cell.
We were able to make it out of the cell. We opened a box, but was unable to open the door.
Here's a breakdown of what clues we had in the room (I won't say any lock combiantions though ):
cell 1 had a piece of paper with cryptic writing on it. (we ended up needing it to open up a locked box outside of the cell)
broom stick outside one of the cells
boot outside the second cell (used the broom stick to grab the boot)
boot had the second piece to the taped piece on the cell 1 wall
tally marks in both cells; cell one had 68 and 27, cell 2 had 90
combination to the cell lock was related to the type of person housed in the cell, and the symbol matched from the boot.
1/4 piece of paper taped to cell 1 with matching symbols on another piece of paper outside the cell
bump, just did Xcape's Sherlock room this morning. Quite fun, completed it on the first try with seconds left to spare.
$26 for 45 mins of entertainment is steep though, but with a 50% groupon it is more worth it.
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