Will we get out in time?!?

With an hour to escape and one of our party still on a tube in London somewhere, I had doubts over our ability to crack the clues and escape.

The clues. Confusing in themselves. Pieces of paper detailing strange notes, wooden cylinders with Xs and Os on them and numerous posters on the wall were all meant to help us crack the code to get into the vault, get the money and escape.

It started slowly - we found some keys, worked out how to put the wooden pieces into the rack, then worked out the codes on the ipad, transferred these to the map on the wall and finally managed to match the symbols to the poster. Bingo - the shutter opened!

But then - the laser beams!  Quite possibly the trickiest part, we finally managed to cross these and work out how to use the clock in the other room. Then it was onto the vault. As luck would have it, having recently visited Krakow, I was able to work out the map and we finally got the second key needed to open the safes.  With a couple of minutes to go we then had the task of working out which money was not counterfeit and which was worth more.

As the buzzer went off we escaped!

With just under half a million pounds in our suitcase we'd done well, even with the deduction for the clue we had to use to help us.

Great fun and definitely worth doing!