The Clock Tower

Location: Escape The Room NYC; 24 West 25th Street, 8th Floor, New York NY 10010

Date completed: January 2019 (4 players)

Creativity: 7.5; Difficulty: 7; Atmosphere: 7; Fun: 7

Requirements: 2-18 players

About: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock…this crazy adventure is a fabulous trip through time. The crazy timekeeper has been stuck in a time warp and needs your help to get things back on track. This time loop is for 8 players. It will be time well spent!

TLDR: There are three rooms total in this experience, with each room growing in difficulty. There are no locks or keys, but rather the rooms rely on technology such as buttons, switches, and putting things together to unlock the next step. The rooms are nicely set up. Overall, it was a fun challenge that we recommend.

Full review: Upon entering the room, it’s obvious that the experience relies highly on tech rather than locks and keys. There are five sets of different technology that require you to press buttons or flip switches. There were a few clues and two hidden items around the room that were unexpected and nice.

Once completing the first room, you move into an even more high tech room. There are multiple puzzles and gadgets to play around with, which makes this room a good experience for groups of 4 people or larger. The way to figure out each puzzle makes sense, and there are even a few cool surprises, one of which involves the large suitcase-like box on a table. Most of the time spent was in this room.

One finished the second room, we were sweating with nerves as we realized there was a third room. This was the toughest one to crack, for a few reasons. There were puzzles that force you to use your brain and think. One deals with putting magnets together and the other involves the periodic table.

Overall, we thought this was an interesting, high tech room that had numerous puzzles to keep us busy. The rooms were also put together nicely.