Looking for Fitzroy Cafes to feed the brain that much needed coffee?? It’s true – solving and creating puzzles is hard work and there was a lot of coffee being drunk at Fitzroy Cafes whilst building The Mystery Rooms! From long blacks, to almond milk flat whites to cold drip and batch brews, we [...]
Finding fun school holiday activities to do with the kids can sometimes feel like an overwhelming task. To help you out, we have put together a list of our favourite school holiday activities come rain or shine, suitable for a range of budgets and tastes for your kids to enjoy this school break. [...]
How BAD is your Dad's sense of humour? For no other reason than we couldn't find one, we've decided to create the World's worst Dad Joke Crossword Puzzle - the perfect activity for your Dad this Christmas! Just right click the link or image below and save target/save image. Download Dad-Joke Crossword Puzzle [...]
I bypassed Ticket to Ride for the longest time. I knew how popular it was, but the idea of connecting railway routes sounded like an express train to boredom. That was until my friend selected it at a board game cafe several years ago. I was surprised at how much I loved the game’s simplicity [...]
Heat-Mapping Your Potential Escape Room Venue (Or Current One!) Designing the perfect escape room venue is a balance of customer experience, operations practicality, and ultimately efficiency of space (rent costs) to maximise profit! A few years ago, I watched a documentary on the wasted space of traditional home living and how in modern houses, [...]
The Mystery Rooms Has Just Hosted Its 2000th Game!Admittedly it has taken 20 months, 10,000 players, 500 broken padlocks and I’ve put on 10kg to get here - but to acknowledge the milestone, I wanted to write an honest and open piece about what it has been like to operate as an independent escape room [...]
Deliberating when barbed wire was invented may not sound like the most thrilling game, but Timeline makes history fun again. It’s a card game with a minimal learning curve (literally a minute or two) that can last five minutes or an hour depending on how many rounds you want to get through. After exploring different time periods [...]
Director: Peter Dukes Run time: 86 min Just in time for Halloween, I’ve been checking out some recommended horror movies this week. On my list was a recent release that cashes in on the increasing mainstream interest in Escape rooms, the innovatively titled Escape Room. (Warning: Spoilers for the movie’s first half below.) After an [...]
Need more mystery? Time to travel in style - treat yourself! Unfortunately, your choice in boarding the Orient Express results in joining a murder investigation. So much for a relaxing trip, but anyone who’s heard of Agatha Christie could have told you that. Mystery Express is a Days of Wonder production and like all their [...]
Travel into an ancient temple in search of fame and glory, but be careful of obstacles, traps, and being locked in forever! Sound familiar to a certain Egyptian tomb? For those of you who enjoy the will we/won't we make it out element of escape rooms, The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac has a similar [...]
H.M.Pentridge Prison’s ‘C’ division, where Ned Kelly was held captive, was demolished back in the early 1970s but the prison continued to operate until 1997, housing Australia’s most notorious ‘bad guys’ and infamous criminals. Considering the paths that many individuals took to end up in the ‘College of Knowledge’, it should have been [...]
If you're looking for things to do in Melbourne then hopefully we can help. I don’t have kids, but from what I’ve seen out there among my parent friends, I’m pretty sure it’s easier to row oceans than keep them occupied with things to do. There are of course some parents out there who [...]
I have written previously about how live games are becoming more and more popular as people try and escape the screen and venture into the real world. Over the last 2 months a group of people have been tasked with protecting Melbourne from the uprising of Unity. This is not a secret police force or [...]
As an owner of many board games, choosing which one to review can be a challenge. Shadows Over Camelot makes sense, not just because it’s theme closely matches one of our rooms, but also because its co-operative divide-and-conquer nature is similar to how most escape rooms can be approached. In Shadows Over Camelot you play as [...]
Organising your Team Building Event? Harder still, you've probably been asked to organise three theoretical ones just to have two of those ideas immediately thrown out! It's no simple task, so we thought we would pull some simple information on Team Building Games in Melbourne into one place to make that [...]
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly – Sir Ken Robinson I’ve rewritten this sixteen times already and there appears no way to say this without cheeky connotations. It reads how it reads, [...]