Escape Failure

31 December 2019

I booked a visit to the Doctor Who-themed escape room, Worlds Collide as part of my Who-fan husband's Christmas present. As we were in Stratford to see King John the night before, a visit to Oxford's Westgate Shopping Centre on the way home seemed perfect.

Unfortunately, it did not go well. The experience was one of several at the venue, and it turned out that the two of us were the only ones booked for that time.  Our task was to save the world, as the Doctor was busy.  We failed.

The Doctor Who content was actually pretty minimal.  There was a briefing from the Doctor at the start, and a few familiar looking artefacts, but it was mostly just puzzle-solving to find six thingies which would help us to do something and fix something (no spoilers here). There were no further broadcast messages or clues from the Doctor - just a walkie talkie to contact our gamesmaster for clues.

Husband became very bad-tempered when we got stuck.  It gives you an idea, if I say that later that afternoon we assembled a flat pack console table with more success and a great deal less sulking.

We ended the year watching Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World and The Lie of the Land in order to calm down.