Escape The Puzzle Reviews Summary

Category: Escape room center

Address: 473 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA

Phone: +17329959004

Rating: 5.0
based on 217 reviews.

Room Quality

Pros:

  • "These rooms are hand made and created to really challenge your brain."
  • "An incredible amount of work clearly went into this room, which includes some fun contraptions that I haven't seen anywhere else yet."
  • "The riddles were tricky and all the mechanism that made up the room really showed the work and skill that went into the place."
  • "The atmosphere of the rooms makes it feel like you are stepping into a completely different time and place."
  • "The puzzles were so intricate and clever."
  • "The puzzles and clues were multi layered, and really took quite a bit of thought to get through."
  • "The room was decorated perfect for the theme and the tasks at hand gave us a real challenge."

Cons:

  • "Things to improve: some mechanics didn't work right but we're easily remedied."
  • "The rooms were too challenging to where constant clues were being sent over the monitor in order to actually complete a task, even when we hadn’t asked."
  • "room was cramped and very confusing to know what to do when."
  • "There were some malfunctions in the mechanisms in the room."
  • "We also had issues with some clues being... arguable... such as do heads count as skulls..."
  • "Our Animal Kingdom room was a bit worn (one of the locks didn't work) and we didn't really understand the story."
  • "very amateurish, instructions where very unclear, the physical props where all make of the absolute cheapest material and inferior grade."

Staff and Service

Pros:

  • "The owners are so welcoming and personable."
  • "The front worker, Kenny was so nice and had great acting for each room!"
  • "Tina and Gabe stayed late to talk to us about our experience."
  • "The staff were helpful and accommodating."
  • "Gabe and Tina are devoted to making sure their guests have a great time."
  • "The staff (Tina and Kevin?) are so friendly and the escape rooms were incredibly thoughtfully made."
  • "The owners were very good to guide if you got stuck without giving anything away."

Cons:

  • "Hints should be hints, not just explicit directions for what to do next."
  • "Unfortunately, the game master was not very enthusiastic."
  • "The staff were very nice but the instructions were sped through and it was just kind of awkward."
  • "Also - the owner has seemed quite defensive when responding to reviews and only accepts 5 star reviews."

Overall Experience

Pros:

  • "I definitely recommend this place to any and everybody who's interested in doing escape rooms or those who have never done it before."
  • "Fun,and exhilarating! A great pair of hosts introduced us to the game...it was an hour of fun for our team of 7 to escape the room!"
  • "We will definitely be back!! Thank you for helping us make family memories that we will never forget!"
  • "What an amazing time our friends and family had!"
  • "This escape game was amazing!"
  • "We had such a fun time, Tina and Gabe were such great hosts."
  • "This was the best escape room experience we had."

Cons:

  • "I see that the owner gets very defensive, so I expect that she might be upset at this review."
  • "Make sure you book an hour in advance as they won't let you buy a second room while you're there."
  • "Very hard to decipher all the clues -- heaven help the strange keys and unusual locks!!"
  • "It was okay... The owner was helpful and very nice, but our game master was a little quiet and low-energy."

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