Escape HQ Auckland CBD

About

Escape HQ on Lorne Street runs five sixty minute rooms and leans towards fast, classic puzzle work rather than long theatrical set pieces. Dreams of Alice is the gentlest and the one to pick if nobody in the group has done this before. Prison Break and Behind Enemy Lines sit in the middle. Titanic is the one they flag as their hardest, and Psych Ward is the one people talk about afterwards. Rooms take two to eight players, though four to six is where the operators say the puzzles land best. Arrive ten to fifteen minutes early for the briefing and allow another fifteen afterwards in the lounge. This venue is up a flight of stairs with no lift. Several rooms involve crouching and narrow gaps, and the room pages list passage widths if that matters.