LOCATION: Maui, Hawaii, USA
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📝 ETR DECODER
🔑 GAME: Stella Superstar
📅 DATE PLAYED: April 27, 2022
🎬 GENRE: Popstar, Creepy
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 PPL): 7/10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-6 ppl
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins
💰 PRICE: $35/PP (depend on group size)
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes
📖 THE STORY
You have been invited to Stella’s house for a special private performance of her new single. The problem though, is that many people have been invited to her house but nobody has seem to have written a review of her song. In fact, no one who has been invited has ever been seen again. Are you going to the performance and if you are, can you make it out to write your review?
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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE
If you are into creepy rooms, this would be a great room for you. There are no jump scares, but a combination of the décor and the music they play really makes for an eerie atmosphere. It was also fun as we went from room-to-room as the music changed to match your discoveries.
All the puzzles were very well clued. There was not a lot of tech in this room but we were very impressed with how creative Mystery Maui Escape Room puzzles were, since they required little, to no tech puzzles. A bulk of the puzzles were either large enough for both of us to see or had enough pieces to it that we could both solve it together. Even if there were more people, the puzzles would allow everyone to feel like they are part of the solve.
Mystery Maui Escape Room has an inventive way of guiding you through the game with the fairly linear puzzles in the game. They also have a good hint system which is provided through a screen that will display your time and how the GM communicates with you. Our GM was very helpful in giving us a few nudges along the way but also gave us the option at the beginning of how we wanted hints given to us, either when we ask or when it looked like we were falling behind.
One thing we enjoyed was as 2 people who are red-green colorblind, there were no color related puzzles, which was also told to us at the beginning of the game.
🧩 MISSED THE MARK
This was a fantastic room and fun to play. Nothing sticks out as a miss in this one.
🏹 TAKE A SHOT?
Mystery Maui Escape Room is run by the lovely and amazing husband and wife, Deron and Kit who love escape rooms and it shows through their rooms. "Stella Superstar" has a lot of simple elements in it, but they use them all so well to create a spooky atmosphere in the game (granted, we do scare easily). We were also very impressed how creative they are with some low to no tech items to create the puzzles. We completed the room with 2 experienced players but felt 4 would be fine in the room. Although the room fits up to 6 people, you would not be able to experience all the puzzles. This was a delightful room even and we would highly recommend checking it out if you are ever on Maui.
ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO
Free parking on the street or in parking lot nearby
Located on 2nd floor of the building
Lobby with seating area
Sells some delicious hot chili oil too
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Disclosure: We thank Mystery Maui Escape Room for offering us a media discount for our tickets to this game. Although a media discount was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.
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