clueQuest - "cQ ORIGENES"

Updated: Apr 23

LOCATION:  London, England, United Kingdom

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📝 ETR DECODER

🔑 GAME: CQ Origenes
📅 DATE PLAYED: October 15, 2021
🎬 GENRE: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Crime Solving
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 4 ppl): 8/10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-6 ppl (has duplicated room that can fit up to 12PP)
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins.
💰 PRICE: £25-35/PP (pending on group size and peak vs off peak times)
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes

📖 THE STORY

Your mission is to stop evil Professor Blacksheep from launching a cyber attack and extracting secret data and genetic research. To do this you must access Mr. Q’s old base and secure the mainframe of the computer…. but the only way to do it is to shrink yourself down to the size of a mouse in order to access it. You have 60 minutes to complete this before the Shrink'o'Mat's effects wear off and you are returned to normal size.

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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE

Good Games Master, very enthusiastic and clearly very proud of the room.
Great concept, lovely props which will make you smile and with puzzles that are very in keeping with the theme.
The Shrink'o'Mat feels very Sci-fi and like it would actually shrink you down to size and brilliantly in contrast to the second part of your task that has a retro feel.
Clever way of intertwining the smaller puzzles’ solutions into a final puzzle to construct.
Not linear, so each player can have something to do separately.
A wide variety of puzzles, something for everyone and very few padlocks (but one very impressive one!).
Great ending to the game, you felt the sense of urgency and we came out feeling really buzzy.

🧩 MISSED THE MARK

The clarity of clues from the GM on the radio wasn’t always very good.
One sound task was tricky because of the background music.
We were very eager to get our victory photo and was told that we're going to get there right after the game but we had to chase them down after a day had passed.

🏹 TAKE A SHOT?

The concept of this room is super innovative, slick, smart and keeps you smiling throughout. It is the forth in the storyline but worked as a standalone room as you’re given the back story – don’t feel you need to do the other 3 rooms first. It is built to involve all the team players (anywhere between 2 and 6) there is no sitting on the side-lines for this mission. It is quite spacious so would be fine for 6 people. Our team of 4 got out with a couple of mins to spare so it gave us great value for money!

ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO

There is no designated parking available. Easily accessible by public transportation (8 Min Walk from "Kings Crossing Station"
Team memorabilia is available for purchase after your game.
clueQuest has a meeting space. They’ll work with large groups and offer team building programs.
Lobby with seating, game is one flight downstairs.

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Disclosure: We thank clueQuest for comping our tickets for this game. Although complimentary admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.

Update: Brandon & Cici also visited clueQuest and played "cQ ORIGENES" in May 2023!!