Key to Escape - "The Blind Tiger"

LOCATION:  Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

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📝  ETR DECODER

• 🔑 GAME: The Blind Tiger

• 📅 DATE PLAYED: October 1, 2021

• 🎬 GENRE: Adventure

• 🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 PPL): 7/10

• 👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-6 ppl

• 🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins

• 💰 PRICE: $34/PP

• ☎️ BOOKINGTYPE: Private

• 🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes

📖 THE STORY

In 2050, an organization has taken over and renamed the old United States..."Nomis"! The new government has banned the citizens of Nomis their rights and freedom. As a result, a rebellious group known as "The Resistance" along with the rest of the United States has devised a plan to overthrow the Nomis government. Valuable intel was in transport to our city, but one of our rebels got caught. Luckily, she was able to hide the intel before getting captured and the coordinates of her last location was The Blind Tiger Chophouse. Now it's up to you to recover the intel and find the Resistance hideout before they capture you as well...

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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE

• "The Blind Tiger" wasn't just a typical bar. Going in we already knew that there were going to be many secrets hidden with in and they definitely delivered in that aspect.

• The set design felt like an "off-the-grid" chophouse restaurant. The marble flooring, purple curtains, black wall paneling and black glossy ceiling tiles with gold accents everywhere gave the room a lot of character and a sense of secrecy. It feel very clean. Maybe a little too "clean".

• Key to Escape was able to utilize a lot of the props that were part of the restaurant to create puzzles. This really stuck to the theme of embedding secret messages within what we're trying to find.

• In this room, if you're unable to complete a puzzle, you'll know right away as you simply won't have enough information to come to a solid solution. Key to Escape was great at making this very clear to the players.
  

🧩 MISSED THE MARK

• There were one or two times that something triggered in the room that we're not sure what was activated. Since there is a need to go back and forth between rooms, it would be great to alert the "change" with light or a more obvious opening.

• The change in the second room in terms of lighting/set design wasn't as dramatic as we thought it would be since the restaurant is just a front so it would've been cool to see a more dimmer lit up room with a trail of what the other agent had left us.
  

🏹 TAKE A SHOT?

"The Blind Tiger" is set in the not-so-distant future and the speakeasy theme is a familiar take on what you would experience at some other companies. However, Key to Escape has managed to add a little twist to the storyline that provides a different type of experience. Key to Escape is also able to customize the level of difficulty for each of their games. You can request for easy, normal or hard. The difference is the actual clues you'll receive in the room as they'll give less cluing if you wanted a harder level. We tried this game in normal level and thought it was perfect for what we were looking for. Since we had some extra time that day and because Cici saw candy and her eyes lit up, we had to go their "House in the Woods" a go!

Additional Info

• Parking lot in front

• Lobby area with seats

• Event spaces available

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

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