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    Escape The Room

    4.2 (54 reviews)
    Closed 10:45 am - 11:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    This was the hardest room in Hawai'i. I post this only to show that we have easily crushed even some of the most difficult rooms
    Matthew J.

    I really debated the number of stars on this business. As a background my wife and I have done 57 escape rooms. We are 50-7 with most of the losses coming due to some sort of technical difficulty with the room (puzzles that malfunctioned, etc) or literally being 5 seconds away. Nevertheless we don't automatically rate rooms low if we lose especially if it's our fault. We did three rooms here today. We did the Apartment, the Dig, and the Rec Room. My major issues were with the last room. If you wonder where we are in terms of completing rooms we have completed some in the 5-10% range. The rec room is 17% which we have completed probably 10-15 in that range, sometimes with only two people. I've actually attached a screenshot of my team completing the hardest room in Hawai'i and making the record list. Here are my issues: 1. Biggest complaint - this is the only company we have ever been to where the room actually encourages cell phone use. If I wanted to play around on my smart phone literally needing to call numbers and google answers I would stay at home and do that. They expect you to use your cell phone as a flash light, calculator, google, call friends, etc. This is horrible in our opinion (all five of us that did their rooms). There's so many options to sit around staring at a phone. Why would you want to pay about $30 a person to use your phone in a room? What if you don't have good reception? 2. The puzzles in the rec room were not all that intuitive. There were some leaps of logic and situations where you would need to know faces of people etc. With no clues within the room to know who they were. Relying on guessing, knowledge, etc. If you were in your early to mid 20s or much older you would not be that successful in here. Even growing up in the 80s and 90s and an aunt who grew up in the 70s and 80s we struggled. 3. Some puzzles are easily shuffled up with no indication on how to put them back. What I mean is, in your shuffle to pick apart the room, there are certain puzzles that you can actually put out of order with no indication outside of asking the staff as to how to put it back together. And the order matters. Since I don't want to give away answers this is a random example. Say you opened a drawer and you had a penny on top of a nickel on top of a dime and you needed the code 1-5-10 in that order. If you knock over the stack of coins or don't remember what order they were in you could screw up a clue later. Is the code 1510, 5110, 1015, etc. That's never a good idea. You should always be able to know the order to put things into in one of these rooms 4. In one of the rooms they had failed to reset a lock. I locked it so we wouldn't cheat, but it was a failure to reset the room on their part with a lock wide open within the first minute of the game. 5. This room has no story whatsoever. What a boring theme. You can read some short blurb on the web page. But good rooms give you a video intro. Meh rooms the staff reads some sentence or paragraph about the situation. Blah rooms have you just go in and escape. No idea what the context was really behind the rooms or any immersive story. 6. Someone else mentioned and I agree that some puzzles are so counter intuitive that you almost require the clue master to help. Even that room screenshot I posted we did it with three clues the max allowed and it was much more difficult and much longer. But the puzzles made sense so the experience was fun. Having to be hand walked through the room and still cannot escape because the puzzles are so off the Wall is meh. That being said our clue masters were really nice. Overall we still had a lot of fun, especially on the dig. The quality of the props was great in all the rooms. Overall I was frustrated at times with some of the clues within the room etc.

    Brian S.

    We had an absolute blast at Escape The Room. It's in a great location on Water Street downtown. Tons of choices for a bite to eat before you go in, or save it for after if you don't want to smell like garlic, etc while trapped in a room with your friends... just a tip. You're in for an hour. It really was refreshing to do something different. We had five people in our group and I feel like that's about right. Use your brain, work together and solve the puzzles. The clue master was fun and super helpful. Seems like a fun job. Try this out!

    Maggie V.

    We wanted to do something different for my cousin's birthday, so her sister found this place online. We reserved our time (and paid in full, about $30/person) about two days beforehand.. Dates and times seemed to be booked rather quickly, and with our group of 10, we were limited to times with all 10 spots open. We arrived about 15 minutes early, and played a few games (JENGA, Battleship, etc.) they had in their little waiting area. At our time, we were explained the rules/how everything worked by the girl in the front, and then we were escorted to our escape room ("The Agency" - the hardest room they have). Our clue master, Benjamin, said a few words and then closed the door. My cousin and I were hoping for some type of back story, or like an introduction, since it was our first time ever doing something like this. But they pretty much just lock you in, and it's up to you to figure out what's next. We had 10 in our group, and each one of us was useful in someway to finding clues or solving the riddles. However, with so many of us, at times I felt like all I could do was sit back until there was something else we needed to find. Unfortunately, we didn't get to the end of the room - but we were SO close. Our clue master, Benjamin, was awesome! He was really nice and helpful, and answered questions for us afterwards. I do recommend this place, it was really fun! I also plan on going back to check out their other rooms.

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    Super spot in Milwaukee with a great staff. Get the dig room. Very immersive and fun for family, friends and work people.

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    Megan was so friendly & helpful! My friends a great time here today. Will be back soon!

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    Daniel was the man!! Uh Maze Ing!! The best Clue Master!! Will def come back to visit!

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    Our cluemaster was so helpful and we all had an amazing fun all together. We definitely recommend this place.

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    This was my second time doing an escape room but first time with Save Milwaukee. What I liked about…read moreSave Milwaukee is that they give you a scenario which seems to create more urgency and also a reason (aside from just getting out of the room) to crack the codes. There were 6 of us total celebrating a friend's birthday. As soon as we entered the room we set about our task. We received periodic updates to the scenario and I won't say much more as to not spoil the game for others. We got out with ten seconds to spare!! I'm 2 for 2 on getting out of escape rooms. Only odd thing was they suggested we create agent names and we wrote them on our sheets but they never came to play. Perhaps that was up to us to embrace more. They have two rooms and I'm looking forward to trying out the 2nd room!

    I live in Los Angeles, where I've done over 30 escape rooms - it's become quite the expensive…read morehobby. I'm back home for the holidays and was excited to introduce a group of Milwaukee friends to my new obsession. I gotta say, this room was a very pleasant surprise. While the look of the room was a little bland, the puzzles were for the most part excellent. It's rare I run into a puzzle that's totally new to me, and this room had two memorable standouts. Great use of technology, including puzzles that require physical teamwork (the best kind). The owner/operator was a friendly, quirky gentleman who enthusiastically brought us into the story of the room. We had a chance to chat with him afterwards and his next room, The Election, sounds fantastic - wish I was going to be around when it opens! My only gripe about this place was that we found it too easy - we broke the record and escaped in about 25 minutes. That was probably due to having a couple veterans on the team. If this is one of your first rooms (and seeing as I've only found 6 in Milwaukee, it probably is!), I absolutely recommend it. Good times!

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