The Escape Game (NYC) - "Special Ops: Mysterious Market"

Updated: Apr 27

LOCATION:  New York City, New York, USA

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📝 ETR DECODER

🔑 GAME: Special Ops: Mysterious Market
📅 DATE PLAYED: October 29, 2019
🎬 GENRE: Adventure, Detective, Thriller
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): 7.5/10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-8ppl
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins.
💰 PRICE: $41.99/ pp
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Public
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes

📖 THE STORY

We were agents being sent into a local market to explore if there’s anything suspicious about this place. Boy, were we right…

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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE

Upon entering the room, we felt like we were on the streets of Marrakesh.
The decor and lighting was on point. You can even “smell” the market.
Puzzles were a lot of fun and incorporated elements of the story and props.
Love the 360 turn of events as the story processed on.
Special effects and sound system were in synced to create a realistic feel to a situation.
It’s refreshing to see a room with a strong ending to the story line. We appreciated the twist.
Liked how the logic deduction puzzle was intertwined with visual effects. It’s something we haven’t seen before.

🧩 MISSED THE MARK

One puzzle was a bit confusing with the way the map was drawn. It was hard to give clues for that. We wish that there was a better way to hint it rather than just giving the answer to us.
Perhaps adding a puzzle during the visual segment could also make the game a bit different than some of the ones we’ve seen as the transition did take some time.

🏹 TAKE A SHOT?

If you appreciate aesthetics of a beautiful set designed room, you will love this. It’s hard to find originality with many escape rooms building similar themes so this was very exhilarating to see. Ideally, 3-4 people would be perfect for this room but it’s definitely doable with 2 people as well. Don’t waste too much time at the beginning as there’s a lot more to do moving forward.

🔎 HINT

Look up!

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