We had a great time at Cluequest. Escape room was just the right level of difficulty, quite varied and logical puzzles. Our game masters Jommie and Nel were superb! I would definitely like to come back! read more

Guess who's baaaack This time trying the new room CQ Origenes. The Mad Professor is back and you and your team will need to prevent him to enter the lab's firewall and save the world from his evilness! As usual clueQuest has created a room full of diverse and inventive puzzles. Perfect if you like a challenge with their combination of linear and non-linear puzzles. I keep coming back and so should you!!! read more

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Was not expecting how interesting this escape room was! Escape rooms are a family vacation tradition and this one definitely did not disappoint. The puzzles were the perfect level of challenging but still logical; there were no "out of the blue" clues. I enjoy how all the rooms follow a single storyline, as well. Our hostess, Freya, added so much more to the experience! She was great--so in character and really sold the whole "agent" simulation. Would highly recommend. read more

Last night we got to play clueQuest's Operation BlackSheep through Love Popups London, I have previously played their Plan 52 room and it was fantastic, so I was very much looking forward to trying this room. This time round, you have to help Mr. Q by destroying a mind controll satellite. Our team started out in a narrow hallway with only a few locks and clues around, but we quickly worked our way through to adjoining rooms and more puzzles to solve. The props are top notch, especially for a company that's been around for so long, and the puzzles are very logically structured. There is plenty to do for a full team and no one got bored or felt left out. Some elements in the rooms were quite surprising and a lot of fun. This adventure definitely relies on logic, structure and teamwork more than anything else. We did get ahead of ourselves a few times, trying to work out things that we didn't have all information on yet, but we never got frustrated or annoyed as there are so many fun things to do. We ended up getting one radio-message, but not needing any clues. This escape game is super well designed and a joy to work out! Great storyline, great puzzles, lots of team work opportunities, the whole team really enjoyed it. read more

Back in 2014, we played Operation Blacksheep and it was our very first escape room. Now 5 years later, we've done many rooms from around the world (except Asia--definitely need to check out an ER there since that's where they originated!), and nothing tops the exhilaration of our first experience. My husband and I played by ourselves, and we made it out with 17 seconds to spare! Thank you to our Game Master for all his help in getting us through (I haven't met anyone who's never needed a clue). I definitely recommend more players, thinking 3-5 would be perfect. The storyline was solid and cohesive in keeping with the theme and decor of the room, the puzzles were fun and were a variety of ones that an individual could work on by themselves and others that required teamwork, and there was no scare factor which I appreciated. OB was a challenging yet successful introduction for us; it's an intermediate level and would be great for experienced players as well. read more

GET THEIR ONLINE PRINT&PLAY on zoom With friends or family. It's a little tricky initially but we all had fun. If you like puzzles this is such a great home games night!! I wish we had bought two access codes for two teams. It didn't work out as we had planned. But it was still super fun! If you like escape rooms this is a high quality home version. There are no clues you hide or room set up. It's just a tabletop puzzle game. Warning: expect to spend half an hour prepping. But the experience is worth it. You also can buy the permanent version to ship to you. Difficulty level: intermediate/challenging. If you've never played escape room games there are teen versions to play first from other brands. But this was perfect for our group. We played STOLEN IQ from ClueQuest Print & Play read more

Returned to clueQuest to play OperationBlackSheep and once again had so much fun working together with my team to crack all of the clues in order to stop the evil Professor BlackSheep from controlling all human minds! This time round, the tasks seemed a little more challenging than the first game we played, but saying that, we managed to escape with around 17mins to spare! (...we were given one hint over the radio though because we were missing something crucial that was hidden in a spot we thought we had already thoroughly checked! So a hint to you all...look very thoroughly through everything!) Good fun and would recommend for all ages :) read more

Got a voucher for Christmas and had no idea what this was about so we went in pretty clueless but found all the clues on the day and solved the puzzle. Mission Control was the lovely Georgie who gave us our mission brief and provided guidance along the way. A really fun afternoon and we're hooked now! read more

Down in a surprisingly clean and well attended basement in Euston 5 agents work relentlessly to save the world from certain Peril. It seems professor black sheep is up to his old tricks again and it's our job to foil his plans. Thanks to @lovepopups we got a crack at doing this, in 'Revenge of the Sheep', the third instalment in the ClueQuest arsenal. I'd rank this escape room as hard. We have 60 minutes to complete it and I'd love to say we completed it in good time, but even with seasoned pro's and only requesting two clues, it was very close on the clock! I was extremely impressed with the level of detail and the amazing art work in this escape room, it was very professionally constructed, well thought out and included some very ingenious concepts and is the only escape room I've been to so far that includes augmented reality! I've never experienced anything quite like it, and being integrated into room, it felt very much in keeping with the mission, not just added because they could. I had so much fun from start to finish. It was a great concept we could easily get behind and feel part of, and I left the room buzzing with a sense of achievement. Our host, 'Far' was extremely approachable, friendly and explained the rules / room well. He also had a hilarious sense of humour, and was very open to our Baaa...d puns, even thought he's probably heard them already so many times! What a saint! The venue itself was clean, they provided great facilities, water and comfortable brief / debrief areas. A fantastic escape room that I'd put up as being one of the best I've tried. This is for 3-5 players, so great for groups of friends, team building and improving those problem solving skills! read more

cQ ORIGENES, clueQuest Professor BlackSheep seeks to recreate the original genetical experiment that turned him into a sheep. He has launched a cyber attack on our old mainframe in the hope of extracting secret data, along with the genetical research he's missing. In order to stop the Professor from breaching our firewall, you and your team will have to access Mr Q's old base. The only way in, however, is to shrink down to the size of a mouse with the help of the Shrink'o'Mat. cQ ORIGENES is a new game from clueQuest, who are situated in Caledonian Road, near Kings Cross. The offices have game related content around them and plenty of seating for use while awaiting your timeslot. Before playing we were given a talk with information about the backstory as well as the obligatory instructions. Not the shortest I have experienced and obviously well rehearsed, it was welcoming and set the tone for the fun ahead. This is a hi-tech escape room and the props are first class and everything is pretty new. Upon entering the first room we had to work out how to be shrunk down in size. Having achieved this we were suitably reduced in size and could then enter the main room. This room is highly and consistently themed throughout with many oversized props. The varied array of inventive puzzles have been well thought out and there is a lot to solve. Eventually we managed to solve everything and successfully stopped the nefarious plans of Professor BlackSheep. Then it was back to the first room to be restored to normal size and we escaped with 1 minute 55 seconds remaining on the clock. Certainly one of the best Escape Rooms that I have experienced, this room is a lot of fun and is highly recommended. However it is quite challenging and is probably more suitable for those with a degree of experience of escape rooms. Afterwards we were given fridge magnets containing group photos, agent identity cards and a Mission Report card. read more

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Operation BlackSheep recommended We have done over 150 escape rooms and we recently completed Operation Black Sheep and Plan 52. Operation Black Sheep was our favorite as is among one of the top rooms we have played. We recommend this room. Plan 52 had one cool never-seen-before puzzle mechanism but was otherwise a middle of the road room - it also had some hard to find scavenger items which detracts from our puzzle-solving fun. Our 2 Game Masters Luke and Far were both excellent, experienced and very friendly. read more

Displayed as one of their hardest games, I found this room both intellectually challenging and which contains stuff I've never seen before in other escape rooms. Both unusual and challenging but not too difficult, this requires logic and really thinking unusually out of the box, and entertaining different ways you can approach a problem. Our team worked brilliantly together. Everyone's strengths played so well and even with a mixture of newbies and experienced players it moulded together successful because the different perspectives of what people looked for meant no stone was left unturned. I've played one of their other games before and with a collection of escape room achievements under my belt, I have to say this room sits at one of my top 5 escapes!! A lovely bonus was a photo magnet given to us at the end! Defo one of London's many activities to do for memory sake! read more

I went along courtesy of ClueQuest to play the game Plan 52 and I really was highly surprised in how much fun it was. There are quite a few different type rooms you can play at the ClueQuest location.   We chose to play Plan52 as this is the first escape room that is recommended to play at ClueQuest as this is the first part of an on-going story that carries on throughout all the other escape rooms in which you can play. PLAN52 is a top secret room where spies run their covert operation from. However, something terrible had happened: four of the agents who were stationed there have vanished without a trace. We as a team had to prove that this was the work of a double agent. Furthermore, Mr Q suspects that the evil Professor BlackSheep helped the double agent to cover his tracks. It was up to us to solve the identity of the double agent. But the double cross traitor has reset the security device of the facility and within 60 minutes the facility will self destruct. So it's up to us from the moment we set foot into the room to not just solve who the double agent was but also to deactivate the device before the entire facility explodes. There are in fact 4 Plan52 rooms so you can get four teams all competing against each other to see who is the fastest. I went along with a group of friends so in all there was two teams each consisting of 5 people each. Onto the room the puzzles were great some challenging and some not so challenging and so many locks to decode and unlock.  All the puzzles were superbly thought out and the story of the whole game was great and made it more of a pleasure to play as most escape rooms lack a story.  Without giving too much away about the room the cutest part of the whole mission for me was finding the mouse hole and the most entertaining part was the big red box with ropes coming out of it. To make it more entertaining and as a thank you to all my bloggers/reviewers who follow me and contribute to my group the fastest team to escape the room I gave away a bottle of Moet Champagne to the winners.  My team and the other team escaped solving the traitor and disarming the bomb within the 60 minutes. Team 2 though was fastest and did not even need any clues throughout their time in the room so they won the champagne. However they shared it with all of us which was kind. I also love the waiting area and the book in which you can doodle in and stick your team photo in plus by doing this you are entered into a competition to win another game with them.  You can also grab a drink of water whilst waiting and everyone gets to keep a photo after of their team and if you are really fast like team 2 you get a fridge magnet made for each of you to keep. We all enjoyed playing Plan52 and we will definitely return to play the next room in sequence to the ongoing story. Fantastic fun highly recommend. read more

Loved it. Nailed it. Writing reviews for escape rooms are impossible considering you don't want to give anything away. We did Plan52. clueQuest was my second escape room experience, and while it didn't have the high production values of Time Run, I think I thoroughly enjoyed this one just as much, if not more. The staff are thoroughly enthusiastic, the lobby is welcoming, they have water for you while you wait. Nowhere to put your stuff, but that turned out to be fine. Would love to go back and try the newest mission opening March 2016 which promises to be their most difficult. read more

This was the first escape room experience for any of the four of us. It was great fun. We did the Plan 52 room. With a little extra time we managed to escape; we were delayed due to a malfunction of one of the clues. Without giving away any secrets, effecting the escape requires following an intricate sequence of steps to discover and follow clues. Part of the initial briefing involves a demonstration of how various locks work. Opening locks is a significant component of escaping the room. Team work is essential. I certainly would like to try their other rooms and look for other venues closer to home. Highly recommended. read more

I came back for the third time to do Revenge of the Sheep after having done Operation Blacksheep and Plan 52. They say that this was the hardest amongst the 3 and I do certainly agree! I marvel at the inventiveness and novelty of the puzzles and the props are very very cool! You can see that such effort is taken to keep you into the game. This room is not one that you need to escape from. However, you do need to deactivate the sheep mutation device that will turn all humans into sheep in 60 minutes! They start you off in a very small room, so I advise that you know or have worked with the people you are in the room with. The whole experience was very challenging, but when you figure it out, it's very cool. You also will be using some AR puzzles as well as a few cool physical puzzles so anyone handy with those, you want to recruit on your team. A couple of puzzles need at least 3 people to work on it at the same time, or 2 if you're very very good, so I would suggest teamwork all the way. I would advise to have done a few escape rooms with the team you're going in with and have a diverse set of skills within the team to have as many AHA moments as possible! Very good fun and will return if they open a new room. read more

With our social budget my workplace came to ClueQuest to try our hands at some tram building and puzzle solving. The introduction was suspenseful and the staff were great at getting us all psyched out for them challenge that was yet to come. I've always wanted to be a spy! Once I the room, which for spoiler reasons I will refrain fro describing, you have an hour to find your way out and solve the mystery with the provided clues. Sometimes the ClueQuest team gives you hints, but otherwise it's up to you and your team to figure everything out and escape. This game is loads of fun, albeit really frustrating if your team isn't all on the same wavelength so be sure to keep an open mind and listen to everything everyone has to say. Use your brains together and I'm sure you'll solve the mystery. Good day out for colleagues, would definitely like to try with some close friends and see how we fare in comparison. read more

My sister-in-law booked this for four of us as a gift for my husband's birthday. It was the first time i'd really heard of anything like this and we wasn't sure what to expect. The set up is much bigger than expected and very professional. I initially had images of a slightly ramshackle affair but this was not the case at all! We were taken down in our group and given the back story then led in to the room. Without giving to much away it was really good fun and well paced. It's really about team work so make sure you trust your team mates as we all had a moment to step up and solve clues. We did manage to escape with a whole 3.44 mins left and am now a highly qualified agent!!! ;-) They have 3 levels of difficulty and we are definitely considering signing up for the next. read more

Went there last week curtesy of Love Pop Ups London. It was amazing! Operation Blacksheep is an excellent and fun escape room. Always some puzzle to solve and it really forced us to work as a team, which is in my opinion on of the best parts of escape rooms! Far was the person taking care of us and he was fantastic, he even found great agent names for us (I was Agent Unicorn)! I loved solving problems with my Rainbow Brigade team. We all had fun and found the storyline very interesting and appreciated the humour! read more

Having completed Plan 52 recently (and being thoroughly impressed) I couldn't wait to go back and try clueQuest's second escape game; Operation BlackSheep. The same friendly and enthusiastic staff greeted us and patiently waited for a few stragglers (weather causing all sorts of public transport issues). Without giving anything away this next game was even better. Once again fighting crime against Mr Q's arch nemesis Professor BlackSheep but this time trying to stop a satellite that has the ability to control minds from PBS command centre with only 60 minutes until the command centre self-destructs. After getting over our one big over sight we methodically worked our way through each puzzle. There were plenty of puzzles to get your teeth in to, requiring varied different talents. And again the specially designed contents and decor were awesome. Luckily for you all we saved the day with 10 minutes to spare! clueQuest has 3 identical units so it is perfect for team outings with a little competitive streak. Our team had a blast competing against another so a massive thank you to Love Pop Ups London and clueQuest for organising. Looking forward to completing their last game; Revenge of the Sheep. read more

Another 'escape the room' game in London! What could be be more fun? I wondered if it would be too similar to do another one so soon after doing one, but actually clueQuest had it's own twist on things to keep it interesting and different. The storyline was quite fun and threaded itself throughout the game quite well. The puzzles themselves are also original and without saying too much, some of the more physical puzzles reminded me of fun of The Crystal Maze. There are elements of the mystery that are so awesome it is hard for me to keep it secret, but as an Agent for Mr. Q, I must! For those who have no idea what a locked room game is, you and your team are locked in a room and have one hour to search the room for clues and put them together step by step to make your escape before the time runs out. We managed it with only 2 seconds to go, craziness! I recommend having a full team of 5 people, as it helps to get things done in time. You have a walkie talkie for times when you need help and a briefing beforehand to prepare you. They have two games; I did Operation BlackSheep but I am sure I will be returning for the other because I LOVE IT! read more

Even if you have to come to London just to play this game, you must. It is beyond fantastic. We had hired three rooms for 15 people and I can happily concur that it was the best fun we ever had. The games were so well thought out that while playing I could not but help be amazed at the level of detail and planning that went into it. The ClueQuest team are extremely hospitable, friendly, and, in keeping with the spirit of the game, extremely inscrutable when it comes to looking for clues :-) Will definitely visit again. read more

I've played both Plan 52 and Operation Blacksheep. Both were excellent. Having played 29 escape rooms now, this is the only venue where I would rate multiple rooms as 5 stars. There are three or four other London rooms that were great, but no company so consistent. Looking forward to them opening a third room later this year! read more

Super fun experience! My sisters and I visited for the first time last week. We had no idea what to expect. It was impressively set up and run. We didn't escape in an hour but our "mission control" agent allowed us to finish and open the escape door (with a little help). read more