The first puzzle worked well for onboarding players. It wasn’t too challenging. Through it we understood how Escape from the Grand Hotel wanted us to play it. Your experience of this game is very similar to ours, but we found the game far too easy, until we got to the coded fax. This puzzle made absolutely no sense – even after reading the supposed answer. Any chance you can explain it to us?

To make a larger event around this game, mail out the enclosed invitations and have your guests arrive in character and in costume. Note, the character roles are entirely for fun and are not relevant to the gameplay. Professor Puzzle provided duplicate copies of one of the more tedious puzzles so that more players could participate.It wasn’t clear that those character invitations were even an option until we had started the game. The trails themselves require very little puzzle-solving and a bit more of a challenge would be very welcome but the object here is to immerse yourself in this steam punk world and go on a few adventures along the way. It's a totally unique experience.

We encountered some taxonomy inconsistencies within the in-game instructions. The way that it referred to things sometimes shifted. This got confusing. Another very different at home proposition, Escape from the Grand Hotel, is a table top, envelope-based escape experience.We enjoyed the structure of Escape from the Grand Hotel. Each puzzle led us to another room in the hotel. It was fun to explore the hotel in this way.

Owned by the wealthy but mysterious Blossom family, this once magnificent hotel was in danger of being closed for good until the sudden return of the Blossom son, Kurt, and his beautiful wife, Lauren. They want to restore the hotel to its former glory but something isn’t quite right. When their glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand re-opening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but as it turns out, it’s memorable for all the wrong reasons! invitations in envelopes – with full descriptions of the characters so your guests can dress up in advance So, you love escape rooms and you're excellent at solving puzzles. You make Sudoku look like naughts and crosses. But, you're yet to find a board game that will let you exploit your talents... until now. Say hello to Escape from the Grand Hotel. Or, should you say goodbye to the Grand Hotel? We suppose it depends if you can escape! Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty. If you’re comfortable with tabletop escape room puzzles, this was moderately difficult. If you aren’t comfortable with the format, the limited hinting could make this game quite challenging. If you type something in the 'Text to display' box, that will be displayed instead of any star rating.

Is it an escape room...? Well, no... but this should by no means put escape room fans off going because it has so many elements of the theatre and story element that we love in escape rooms. The game itself is very linear, and I think probably would have been better with less people (2-3 I think would work fantastically with the room) Professor Puzzle encourages players to make an evening of Escape from the Grand Hotel. They included invitations to mail to guests, who can come in character and in costume. This would be a fun way to make a play-at-home puzzle game into a bigger event.

Escape from the Grand Hotel was Professor Puzzle’s first foray into tabletop escape games… and they got a lot right. The story was hokey, but it came together well enough in the end. It worked for the game and made us smile in the end.

Also, I’ve seen videos where they indicate they change puzzles and a different version 2 or version 3 of the game is released.