Hint Hunt

I’ve played both their rooms (Zen and JM), and while they’re OK in their own right, if you’ve played other escape rooms, I don’t think they’re up to the same standard.

I recently headed over to Hint Hunt near Euston with fellow bloggers courtesy of #LVLoveLife.
I can’t let on too much about the event as it will totally spoil it for you if you want to go, but I can quote on what the website says…
Are you up for a challenge? Time to put those thinking caps on and work as a team. Without giving too much away (after all HintHunt pride themselves on an element of ambiguity), this will certainly be a fun day out. HintHunt only go so far to explain what to expect: «HintHunt is a fresh & brainy pulse raiser for any small circle of friends or families.»

It’s true what they say, spontaneous nights out are by far the most fun! I was coming to the end of a long work day when I got a call from a friend saying he was in London and wanted to know if I’d like to go to Hint Hunt with him. The answer was 100% yes, as I’d read a few of the other reviews and it sounded awesome — and it was as good as I expected!
We were allocated a game master who explained that we’d need to THOROUGHLY check for clues everywhere in the room, there would be a mixture of codes and keys, and we had 1 hour to solve the mystery and escape the room!
5 of us escaped from the murder mystery room with an agonising 41 seconds to go — although without all of the (sometimes sarcastic) hints popping up on the screen, we’d still be in there now.
My one hint for you: go and give it a try, you’ll love it!

One room, one hour, your team. All you have to do is work out how to escape, how hard can it be?
I had an incredible amount of fun and it really gets the adrenaline-​pumping. It really is worth a visit with your team of hopeful-​escapees! It was a really wonderful experience and am looking forward to trying another room soon! My friends and I tried our luck at the Zen Room. It started off slowly as we worked out what to be doing and then found ourselves frantically solving the way to escape in the last 10 or so minutes. A great bonding/​team activity as you work together to solve everything, leaving you buzzing long afterwards.

Great fun! We finished with only seconds to spare. Definitely more intense than anticipated. Went with a good friend and some of his friends that I’d never met – it made us fast friends. Great team building exercise. Solving the mysteries are fun and the staff give you clues when you need them but you’re still figuring it out on your own.

On the face to it, this sounds like an awful nightmare that claustrophobic people would walk up from in a thin sheen of sweat. Take 3 – 5 people, lock them in a small room and give them an hour to get out. But it is actually incredibly fun and a crazy hour off puzzle solving adrenaline rush!
So not to give too much away, a friend was treated to HintHunt for Xmas so I tagged along. Now I love puzzles, and basically this is one big set of those. You go into the room and have to solve clues in order to eventually find a way of getting out. As soon as you get in a TV screen starts a countdown and you get told that not every team gets out in there allotted time. So of course the 4 of us who 1) all love puzzles and 2) are fiercely competitive were more than up for the challenge! We were also told what the record to get out of the room was, so of course we had to beat it. We were 2 minutes off, so close!
Tip, book in advance — we had to book for a Sunday night at 9pm 2 months beforehand because all of the other spots were taken. Now we have gone to one of course we have to go to all of the other scenarios. We’ll be back HintHunt!

My girlfriend dragged me up to this so I was a little skeptical and knew nothing about it on arrival but I have to say it was a great way to spend an hour.
Such good fun trying to find all the hints and get yourself out within the hour, it actually felt like we were in the room about 20 minutes but our time was up.
We were in the Zen room on this visit but we’ll definitely be back to check out the other rooms.

GAME ON!
Locked room? Your best friends? Don’t worry, this isn’t the plot of a horror movie. This is something much, much better. For anyone who grew up watching the TV show The Crystal Maze and wished they could be on it, this is for you.
I first heard of the locked room game concept in Hong Kong, where I tried Freeing HK. It was such brilliant fun that as soon as I found out there was one in London, I ran over there. I won’t say too much about the actual mysteries, but you will be locked in a room with your friends and it’s up to you to solve the mystery of how to get out. I tried both the detective style mystery and the japanese Zen room, and the Zen room is by far my favourite. I am probably biased, as I am crazy about Japan, but I think the mystery there was more intuitive to solve and also involved aspects I found more fun (can’t say what aspects, sorry!).
This is a mental, not a physical game, and you have about 1 hour to play. The staff here do a good job of explaining their rules, which is important as I have tried this game in other places that were misleading and not as clear. You can have up to 5 people in the game, and in my opinion, the more the merrier, as it gives you more help to solve the mystery. I hear there will have a new room sometime in November/​December, and I can’t wait!

Have you ever thought to yourself, «I wish I could be locked in a room for an hour with two to four of my awesomest friends in order to solve a bunch of amazing puzzles in order to escape the room»?
Yeah, it’s not really something that a person probably thinks on a regular basis (or at all), but I think Hint Hunt is out to change that! Once I heard about it on Unilocal,I decided it was definitely on my list of things to do, so I rounded up a group of people (Alex S., Shamaine W., Andrew M. and my awesome partner Tom) and booked us in for the office puzzle.
I’m not going to say anything more about the puzzle because spoilers, but what I can say is that from start to finish the hunt was amazing. Clues everywhere and puzzles to be solved. And the people who work there are amazing. They give you just enough clues to lead you in the right direction without actually giving you the answer to things. And my favorite part? When i was looking around the room and shouted, «Spoiler!» and spoilered a spoiler from a spoiler and spoilered my way to the spoiler to spoiler the spoiler.
Awesome.
And go. Seriously. Find a group of friends and give it a try. It’s a bit spendy, but we were talking about it the rest of the night, and when you solve some of the puzzles, you get an amazing sense of satisfaction and glee from it. Especially when I spoilered!
It was so much fun, that I immediately booked the Zen room for us to try. I really don’t imagine there will be anything Zen about it while we’re in there, but it will be fun!

The real challenge of this review will to not give anything away. Because that’s half the fun, discovering everything.
Hint Hunt was one of those things that maybe I saw before Unilocal,maybe not, but when the five star reviews started coming in, we decided we needed to get on this. So we booked a spot for three months in advance because they were semi-​booked up and that was the time we could do it and went in.
The idea is to escape the room. Once it begins you have an hour to figure out the mystery and unlock the door. Easy right? Wrong! Everything in the room could be a clue to a puzzle which in itself starts another puzzle and so on and so forth etc. I was there with five people and even with all of us constantly figuring out bits of different things, we still needed help (which comes from the TV above in forms of hints, hence the name.)
I loved this whole experience. It seemed like nothing at first. A tiny lobby you walked into and then led into a tiny room. Semi-​disappointing. How wrong I was! It was bigger and more complicated than I could ever know. And so much fun
We finished with just about four minutes to go and then signed up to do their other room in another six months. Can’t wait to figure it all out again.

We did Escape the Room in NY and I was immediately addicted to the adrenaline rush. So when I found out about the multiple escaping the room puzzles in London, I quickly went onto the website and booked a slot 6 weeks later. It looks like it gets booked really quickly, so make plans in advance!
The HintHunt space is unassuming, but as soon as you’re in, your puzzlemaster introduces you to all the rules and lets you keep your belongings in the locked space.
You’re given a whiteboard to track down clues (and red herrings) and the puzzlemaster gives you hints along the way via a tv screen. We looked at every nook and cranny which revealed many keys and long codes. It’s great we had 5 people on our team because we needed all the brainpower we could get.
The hour flew by, we were having so much fun! We barely made it out, had a minute to spare, but the relief we felt when we made it out was palpable.

This place is BRILLIANT! Seriously.
I came here with a large group of girly friends in the afternoon on a weekend full of madness (my hen party– eep…) The venue is actually on my route walking home from work, so I have wandered past countless times, but I had no idea something so fun was located here. Being locked in a room with your friends to solve puzzles doesn’t really sound (to me) like it could be that good, but OH MY GOODNESS it was such a giggle (and a challenge!)
— The hints are great. You can tell they are keen to help you, and sometimes they are funny… although one of the hints was «listen to mum» when my sister was working out a clue. I think she was slightly offended. Oops.
— They split us into small teams, three groups tried the murder mystery room, and one group tried the zen room. They both sound awesome.
— I can’t tell you more than that, because it’s more fun if you turn up without knowing what is about to happen.
— It is all just so clever!
— The two staff that run it are reeeeally cute, and they are getting married soon. Give them hugs because they are so lovely.
— We managed it with terrible hangovers, so I have a feeling most people can manage it if they work together!
My team finished and escaped the room with 44 seconds to spare. YES!

This was one of the coolest things I’ve done. If you’ve ever watch Sherlock or The Bourne Identity and fantasized about finding your way out of a bind using your unique skills, that dream can be realized in about an hour at hint hunt.
Most of this experience is meant to be kept secret, so I will simply say that you are locked in a room and have 1hour to escape by solving puzzles, searching, and using hints given to you by your guide. It is fun, slightly challenging, and a very unique experience, and requires no physical strength. Anyone can do it.
My team got out with 3 minutes and 1 second to spare! Definately give this a try. Great for families and work groups!

You are ‘locked’ in a room. You have clues everywhere, hidden objects to find and things to unlock. You have one hour to open the door! GO!
So I can’t really go into any more detail without spoiling it for you. Needless to say, the hour flew by and we opened the door with only 2.5 minutes to spare.
Great for a bit of team building. No special skills required apart from being able to find things, spot connections and work as a team.
Apparently, these are HUGE in Hungary but this is the only place you can do it in London.
RESERVATIONS ESSENTIAL AND WELL IN ADVANCE

Definitely check it out — a unique and amazing experience :)

Great fun! I couldn’t believe how much fun was searching for clues and solving the puzzles! Better than looking for hidden Xmas presents through the house :) We’ll be definitely coming back for the second room!

I went with a group of friends for my birthday and had an excellent time.
The challenges were tough but we managed to complete the tasks set. You definitely need to work as a team if you want to complete this.