things to do with teenagers

Heist – Thinking Outside The Box – Peterborough

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Disclaimer 1: this room isn’t really in Peterborough. Whittlesey is a very nice little market town on the outskirts of Peterborough. It just has a very low recognition rate, possibly because they can’t seem to decide whether to spell it Whittlesey or Whittlesea, so it seemed easier to classify it as Peterborough.

Disclaimer 2: the venue isn’t really Thinking Outside The Box, but instead The Old Coffee Tavern, a lovely cafe that hosts board games sessions.

The good news: this is definitely, absolutely, categorically, a heist.

Read about it here…

Gold Rush – Enigma Rooms – Watford

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New year, new room (and the usual resolutions to get my reviews written and posted more promptly…).

Not a bad effort this, as we only played in December (yes, 2022, don’t be rude), but a game very worthy of a timely review. To find out how swiftly we tracked down One Tooth Tex’s gold* read more here…

*we actually got the room record, but the venue had only been open two days and it has since been beaten, so we’re not going to boast about it.

Lost Temple of Yumiko – Trapp’d – Northampton

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This was a grudge match – Teenage Avenger and his crew went and played this game without me last year, escaping in 58 minutes. So I gathered my own team of intrepid explorers and set off to the perilous badlands of central Northampton to see if we could do any better.

Read how we got on here…