Fox in a Box (Bowral, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 11+ (child adaption available) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: June 2026 We returned to Fox in a Box on our second day in Bowral, just before our drive back to Sydney, to play their hardest room, The Bunker. Having broken the all-time record for 2 of their other rooms, we really put the pressure on ourselves to do well again. How did we do? Not great! Well, I suppose it's all relat

Fox in a Box (Bowral, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 11+ (child adaption available) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Beginner friendly Date visited: June 2026 We finished Life Sentence early and went straight into our second room at Fox in a Box Bowral, Mastermind (also known as Mastermind Heist at other Fox in a Box venues). This was considered a "beginner friendly" room, but it's also their highest-rated room on Morty (small sample size though). Here

Fox in a Box (Bowral, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 11+ (child adaption available) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Low Date visited: June 2026 With the kids getting a pupil free day from school, we decided to take advantage and head to Bowral (about 90 minutes from Sydney) for an overnight escape adventure! The newest Fox in a Box franchisee opened up towards the end of the last year and currently has 4 rooms. Having already played Zodiac Killer on th

Urban Escapade (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 14 requires adult supervision Player limit: 2-7 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: April 2026 We're always excited to hear a new escape room company opening up in Sydney, and the city's latest addition is Urban Escapade, located inside The Cannery in Rosebery. Even though their first room, Kidnapped, has been available since the start of the year, we decided to wait a few months for them to iron out the kin

Elude Escape Rooms (Galston, Sydney) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (adult required) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: 4.5/5 Date visited: April 2025 After enjoying Elude's outdoor game Stumped and a ridiculously slow lunch nearby, we rushed back to play the new headliner, Magician's Lair. With a difficulty rating of 4.5/5, this was Elude's third-hardest game behind Framed and Yin Yang, and tied with Torquay. But with my niece C added to the team and 100+ additional rooms

Elude Escape Rooms (Galston, Sydney) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: Suitable for 13+ (adult required) Player limit: 2-50 Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: April 2025 Our family always enjoys our visits to Galston to play at Elude, pound for pound the most challenging escape rooms we've played in Australia to date. After giving their newest room, Magician's Lair, a few months to settle in, we decided to it was time to make the drive again up north again along with my niece C. H

TED-Ed + PostCurious Age: Recommended 14+ Players: 1-4 Play Time: 720 minutes Awards: 2025 Golden Lock Award We love jigsaw puzzles — we have a few 1000+ piece puzzles hanging all around the house — and we also really enjoy table-top escape games, so when I saw Pandora's Legacy on Kickstarter over a year ago, I immediately jumped on the bandwagon. I received the game before the end of 2025 and played it with the kids as a team of 3 during the school holidays. Did it live up t

Stupid Particle - Taipei Baoqing Branch (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 5-6 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: April 2026 Our final game on this Taiwan trip was the famous Bubble Tea [竹本家] room at Stupid Particle! I had heard good things about this quintessential Taiwanese escape room, but was somewhat concerned because it's apparently very difficult for foreign players due to having a significant amount of reading. With 5

Funlock Studio - Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: 12+ (probably due to fragile props) Player limit: 3-6 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: April 2026 With E working again, I took my mother and the boys to another Funlock room. We previously played Song of Inari and Arabian Nights, their two "English-friendly" rooms, both of which were small but solid (and badly translated). This time, we went straight for their biggest, newest room, Lost Way Ticket, a H

Kuaitaoa Workshop - Taipei Qingguang Store [塊陶阿工作室 - 台北晴光店] (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 4-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Fear Factor: 4/5 Date visited: April 2026 Immediately after the incredible Cursed Rain, we headed to Kuaitaoa (塊陶阿) — a Mandarin homophone for “Get out of here!" — to play the horror game 醫怨, which I have roughly translated to Grudge Hospital. [醫怨 in Mandarin is pronounced "Yi Yuan", which sounds the same as