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Which Cryptology Escape Rooms are best for kids?
All of Cryptology escape rooms are suitable for kids – but if you’re not sure which is best, here is a list of what we offer at Sheffield, Nottingham and Swindon. If you missed it, here’s our last article about how to pick the perfect Escape Room for your kids. First Contact The Tayson Research…
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Which Cryptology Escape Rooms are best for kids?
All of Cryptology escape rooms are suitable for kids – but if you’re not sure which is best, here is a list of what we offer at Sheffield, Nottingham and Swindon. If you missed it, here’s our last article about how to pick the perfect Escape Room for your kids. First Contact The Tayson Research…
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Are Escape Rooms Suitable for Kids?
Choosing a suitable escape room for your family or kids to do can be gruelling – but Cryptology Sheffield, Swindon, and Nottingham have you covered! Can Escape Rooms Be Family Friendly? Short answer: yes! Most escape rooms will clarify on their website if they are family friendly. Our branches all have an FAQ where you…
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COMING SOON: New Escape Room at Cryptology Sheffield
Cryptology Sheffield are working hard to bring you a brand new escape room: ‘”The Great ???? Heist”. Your mission You’ve been sent by a shady character to loot one of Sheffield’s most coveted items. Stealing this treasure will give you riches untold, but the police won’t take kindly to it… First, you must infiltrate the…
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Getting Critical of ‘The Crypt’ (Part 1)
We relocated a year and a half ago allowing us to make new games and more escape rooms. However due to this we closed one of our favourite games, The Crypt. We learnt a lot from designing and running this game for two years so keep reading to take away our most valuable lessons. Sudden…
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Cycle to Work Day with Cryptology
On August 8th it will be ‘Cycle to Work Day’, the premise being whether you are an avid cyclist or haven’t seen your bike in years that you have a go. As with these events you can sign up via social media or use an App on your phone like Strava. If you are like…
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Building a Team at Cryptology
What is Team Building? Team Building, as the name would imply, is an activity where colleagues work together to build workplace unity. Companies all over the world use a variety of techniques and strategies to help employees to get to know each other and advance their problem-solving skills, boost creative thinking and unify as a team towards…
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Clue System Development
Clue systems are very important in Escape Rooms. Extra clues should not be essential for the game to be completed but there needs to be a way to communicate with players. Cryptology opened its doors in Nottingham in July of 2015. At this point there were less than 70 Escape Rooms in the UK. There…
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A Brief History Of Escape Rooms
Being in the industry of Escape Rooms for over four years now. I have heard many theories as to where it all began. Exit Games, or Escape Rooms were words I first heard in 2014 whilst looking for “Things To Do In Bristol”. This lead me to find my first escape room! From this moment,…
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Dreamscape: A Different Type of Escape Game
Dreamscape was an idea that was born before Cryptology Nottingham’s relocation back in February 2018. It was a critical factor in deciding what the next venue should look like to be able to house the new escape games. A Developing Market Even in 2019 the vast majority of customers that come through our doors are first-time…
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True Terror on its way to Sheffield!
It is time that Cryptology Escape Rooms delved into the murky world of TRULY TERRIFYING HORROR!
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Sheffield Eateries As An Outsider
I have visited Sheffield a handful of times in my adult life, and having worked in Barnsley for 7 years knew that it was the most likely place that I would live, if I moved to South Yorkshire. Now, with opening my third branch of Cryptology Escape Rooms, I have seen much more of the…
