Scott Polar Escape
Nov. 13th, 2014 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apparently one of the staff at the Scott Polar Research Institute decided outreach needed to reach further, and organised a mystery escape! Groups from 3-8 are invited to be locked in the lobby with a mystery to solve to escape.
I went with Amy and several of her friends and it was totally awesome. Very crystal maze. There is a backstory about suppressed research, and you need to solve a set of puzzles to progress, helped by any exhibits in the room and a limited number of hints. There were a few technical hitches, but it generally went very smoothly, the staff member I think organised most of it was obviously not quite a professional puzzle-setter, but had a good setting, good equipment (real small safes!) etc.
We escaped with about thirty seconds to spare! It was very dramatic, as we were stuck for about twenty minutes in the middle, but once we got over that hitch, it turned out we had most of the pieces to get the rest of the way really rapidly.
And it got me to wander round the museum which I'd never done before, despite living so close.
There's a companion event at the Sedgwick Museum but both are fully booked now. But they said demand was really high, so I hope they'll do some more.
Apparently one of the staff at the Scott Polar Research Institute decided outreach needed to reach further, and organised a mystery escape! Groups from 3-8 are invited to be locked in the lobby with a mystery to solve to escape.
I went with Amy and several of her friends and it was totally awesome. Very crystal maze. There is a backstory about suppressed research, and you need to solve a set of puzzles to progress, helped by any exhibits in the room and a limited number of hints. There were a few technical hitches, but it generally went very smoothly, the staff member I think organised most of it was obviously not quite a professional puzzle-setter, but had a good setting, good equipment (real small safes!) etc.
We escaped with about thirty seconds to spare! It was very dramatic, as we were stuck for about twenty minutes in the middle, but once we got over that hitch, it turned out we had most of the pieces to get the rest of the way really rapidly.
And it got me to wander round the museum which I'd never done before, despite living so close.
There's a companion event at the Sedgwick Museum but both are fully booked now. But they said demand was really high, so I hope they'll do some more.
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