Thames & Kosmos - EXIT: The Pharaoh's Tomb - Level: 4/5 - Unique Escape Room Game - 1-4 Players - Puzzle Solving Strategy Board Games for Adults & Kids, Ages 12+ - 692698

We enjoyed playing this game visiting the various train carriages. Vaguely reminiscent of Agatha Christie.As with all of these games: A couple of the clues were too obscure for us to get, but we skipped using the help cards. The help clues occasionally to jump from telling you what you already know to the solution. The actual hint needed is that numbers aren't very clearly defined sometimes, you need to get exactly the right angle or distance plus a healthy dose of imagination to see that it's a number 6 not a 5 for example.Orient Express is a great game though one of the best in the series.

We've now done 5 of these (Castle, island, catacombs, lab & finally this one) so are fully in the swing of how these work. Playing with our 3 kids (11, 13, 19) on a Sunday afternoon with snacks has become a really nice routine.This was our favourite so far, everything seemed to fall into place & it takes a slightly different angle with the solution compared to the others (I agree with a prev reviewer to put Card P aside at the start). It also had the nicest background sounds on the companion app.Are they easy? Not particularly though they do work in a certain way so each subsequent game gets easier to work through though they are never easy in themselves.I'd recommend starting on the 1 or 2 'circle' difficulty (as shown at the bottom of the box as pictured) so you can get to grips with how the creators think. We started on a 4 & it was a little frustrating at times esp working as a group of five.All in all these are, frankly, bloody brilliant & I'll be disappointed when we've worked our way through them all - which we will.

This was our first time playing these type of games, and so the concept was quite new to me and my friends. It took us quite some time just to understand how it was supposed to work, as the instructions weren't clear enough; that in itself was a puzzle! But once we got the hang of it, we had a great time! It kept us entertained for 2 hours. Some puzzles unraveled as the game went on which is great because sometimes it would throw you off, keeping you trying to solve other puzzles for longer!! The final puzzle was the toughest!The only downside is the main booklet. Sharing a tiny booklet between 5 isn't actually great - if there were 2 copies of the booklet, to share around, it would've been better! Especially since some of the puzzles are in the book, you have to wait til friends are done looking at it to look at it yourself. The tiny size requires you to have good eyesight too, it should've been printed bigger as I think some people will struggle with it.

We enjoyed playing this escape room in a box game.

These games are so well thought out, I love the puzzles and really enjoy playing them. Murder mystery was a great theme. Can’t wait to do more.

Bought for my husband for xmas.Difficult but gave us many hours of entertainment.Would definitely buy more!

This is the second Exit game we have played as a family. I really enjoyed this one which was more challenging than the Abandoned Cabin but all the better for it. You will require some patience, organization and attention to detail while playing but these games are very cleverly put together and really do test your powers of deduction and reasoning. You need to set aside about 3 hours to play. We played with our 2 teenage daughters and 25-year old nephew on holiday and completed it within 2 and a half hours. Tip - read all clues very carefully and get a second person to read them too - would have saved us 30 mins if we had!!!

Our second title from this company but this one was virtually impossible. It didn’t see seem to fit together or flow logically and the puzzles were too difficult for three teachers and an Oxford graduate. We had to resort to 2 or 3 help cards for every clue. It wasn’t much fun. Wouldn’t buy another from the series.