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Beat the Room Escape Room: Spoiler-Free Review

This is the second venue we explored in our escape room journey, where we brought two other puzzle-loving members of our family for their first escape room experience ever. Once again, we were not disappointed and already look forward to coming back to try all the remaining rooms.  Beat the Room  - Rocklin Rooms:  All the rooms we've tried so far have been fun, immersive and engaging. Some are single room (did not feel cramped) and some are multi-room. Captain’s Quarters:  2–8 players, Intermediate-Beginner (as rated by venue) Pirate-themed single room with great, immersive setting, fun props and plenty of puzzles to occupy four people, though it also would have been doable with two. We finished surprisingly fast, not because the puzzles were overly easy, just because we had a lot of clever people working on them. Solved with 4 people in 25.12 minutes, 0 hints! (Top of the leaderboard!) Bitten: (90 minutes)   4–10 players, Expert Vampire-themed multi-room that was spooky but not sc

Red Door Escape Room: Spoiler-Free Review

As of February 2024, my husband and I have officially finished all the escape rooms at Red Door Sacramento! This was the first venue we went to when starting our escape room quest, and needless to say, it got us hooked.  Below is the comprehensive breakdown of our experience (sans spoilers!) so you can get a feel for what they have to offer.  Red Door Escape Room  - Sacramento  Technically located in Rancho Cordova, this escape room is in the same building as the Old Spaghetti Factory right next to Highway 50. It's part of a franchise so they have other locations across the country, some with different episodes! For now, this review is just about the Sacramento location. Rooms:  Every single room was awesome. The settings were unique and well-tailored to the themes, and every room was technically a multi-room with multiple spaces to explore/escape . Listed in the order we visited... The Gift:  2–8 players, 8/10 difficulty (as rated by the venue) Break into an antique shop to steal