

However, Eva is secretly in love with Locke while Balcom is involved with an underworld figure, “De Luxe Dora” (Edna Britton). Peter Brent (Jack Burns) is beginning to suffer remorse, but his partner, Herbert Balcom (Charles Graham), is determined to keep the scheme going: he plants his own spy, Zita Dane (Ruth Stonehouse), as Brent’s secretary and he blackmails Brent into agreeing to a marriage between his daughter, Eva (Marguerite Marsh), and Paul Balcom (William Pike), which will give Balcom control of the company and Eva’s money. The company’s testing laboratory is managed by Quentin Locke (Harry Houdini), who is actually an agent for the Department of Justice, working undercover to expose the fraud. is a company that makes its profits by buying patents on the promise of marketing products for their inventors, but then suppressing them for the benefit of those products’ competitors. Would I recommend this game? Absolutely! This was a great family activity and everyone in the family really enjoyed playing.International Patents Inc. Until the end of October, the game is on sale for just $19. Houdini’s Secret Room escape room game is $29 for the game. He ended up having fun after he was made the official deliverer of the guesses and then receiver of the new challenge, but just keep in mind that this isn’t really for younger kids. My 6-year old did have a difficult time as the challenges were too hard for him. My 11-year old had a good time and the challenges were indeed challenging for her, along with my 21-year old niece and 40+ husband. The game is recommended for kids ages 9-13 and I would say that this is accurate. I didn’t prep the game until right before playing so I didn’t do this, but I think it would have made even more like a true escape room had I done this. Players have to unlock the box with the right combination to get to the next set of challenges. The creators of the game suggest using a box with a combination lock to put the last two challenges in. Print the entire game in color as there are some of the games that require looking at things in color and will be harder if you print in black and white. I definitely recommend turning on some creepy music while playing the game. You have to provide your own glue, scissors and pencil to complete the challenges. You are also sent instructions for setting up the game, the script that you read at the beginning to kick off the game, invitations for the escape room and victory posters that you can use for photos at the end. We found that challenge 2 took the most time to complete, while challenge 3 was by far the easiest.Īll the puzzles are included in the game you just have to print them out beforehand. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but each of the challenges has multiple sections so they can take a bit of time. There are three main challenges in the game for the team to solve. I still didn’t play this time, but I had the option to if I wanted to.

Last time I didn’t have an option I had to set it up, and give clues along the way if needed, but I couldn’t play. I also liked the fact that they send you two options for the game, one if you are setting it up for your family and not playing along and one if you want to play along with them. The last at-home escape room that I did took me about an hour to get everything set up. Other than printing everything out, it only took me about five minutes to do the prep steps for the game. One of the things that I really liked about this escape room was the ease of setting it up.

You have to print out the challenges and there are a few steps to set up the game. After you purchase the Escape Room online, Escape Room Geeks sends you the files that you need by email.
