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Sick of getting Dad socks for Fathers Day?

15/06/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Sick of getting the generic socks present for your Dad? We have the solution! Why not treat him this Father’s Day by buying a Breakout gift voucher and locking him up in a room, instead? We’re aware that one of the greatest difficulties is booking a room in for a specific time (especially one in which suits everyone!). The good news is, if your lives are as busy as ours are, you can now purchase a gift voucher for your dad, so that he can reclaim the room whenever his schedule permits. Gift vouchers can be easily purchased on our…

Breakout at London Comic Con 2018

22/05/2018 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

Amongst the Orange is the New Black cast, Lucifer stars and The Walking Dead crew, if you're lucky enough, you might spot our very own Breakout staff at this week's MCM London Comic Con! Congregating from Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester, our Breakout managers from these sites will be manning our very own stall at the Comic Con event. Following our subsequent success at Birmingham Comic Con, we will be utilising three 'pop-up' games, all of which will last 30 minutes (differing slightly from our standard 1-hour escape room games). A brief overview of the games can be displayed below: Vigilante…

Easter things to do in Chester

22/03/2018 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Easter is upon us and the children are off school, if you’re looking for a family day out in Chester then here are a few ideas to keep the kids - and not forgetting the adults – entertained! If you’re looking for a cheap day out why not head over to DEWA Roman Experience, located just off Bridge Street behind us here at Breakout, you can expect to learn all about the ins and outs of life as a Roman Centurion. You can get hands on with various pieces of Roman clothing and equipment and view genuine artefacts which…

Valentines Day

09/02/2018 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

Love is in the air ! Which can only mean that Valentines day is just around the corner, so now is the time to start searching for things to do with your significant other! Breakout Chester is the perfect place for you this Valentines day, there is no better way to spend your time than by testing your wits working together against the clock. Being locked in a room for sixty minutes, solving what you can in order to escape is definitely the way to spend a date. With a wide array of different themes…

Excalibur awaits . . .

07/11/2017 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

After months of development our new room Excalibur is opening on Friday the 10th of November 2017! It will be our first original room at Breakout Chester and is not available at any of our other sites. The staff who have played the test games so far have loved it so we can't wait for it to open to the public. The room will unleash the knights within us.... "You and your fellow knights have been kidnapped from Camelot and are being held captive in a tower whilst the intruders allege to be you. You’ll need to find a way…

Breakout's next Charity Day is Thursday 30th March 2017

15/03/2017 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

It’s that time of year again where Breakout try to pay back to the community. The two charity days we hold each year are really important to Breakout and who we are, because we’re aware we wouldn’t be here without the people of the cities we’re based in. We held our first charity day in April 2015 at our flagship Manchester branch and each time we’ve done one since it’s got bigger and bigger, and now involves the sales of all of our rooms becoming charitable donations and a way of getting local charities actively involved in what we do.…

Top Tips for Breaking Out of Escape Rooms

11/02/2017 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

Escape rooms are sweeping the nation and becoming an increasingly popular activity. People willingly lock themselves in rooms for 60 minutes, and set themselves the task of solving all the clues and puzzles to escape in the given time frame. Some people manage it and some people don’t, but what are the top tips for breaking out? 1. Carefully Selecting Your Team Members An integral part of escaping, you have to choose your team before you enter the room based on their individual strengths. You need someone who is good with words for the riddles, numbers for the maths puzzles,…

Popular Breakout Cardiff room “Disturbed” comes to Chester

18/01/2017 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

The popular room “Disturbed” is set to open in Chester on Friday the 27th January. With Vacancy, Wanted and Identify having come from the Manchester site, our next additions will be courtesy of our Welsh counterparts over in Cardiff and offers something for the thrill seekers amongst us. As the name may suggest, the theme to the room is one of a more unnerving nature…. “Your colleague, and friend, PC Richards has been missing for over a week. His last known location is an old abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town which he had gone to investigate one…

Why not lock up a loved one this Christmas?

07/12/2016 | By Breakout Manchester | Category News

Stuck for Christmas present ideas? Why not try Breakout! Christmas is fast approaching, and everyone knows at least one person who is difficult to buy gifts for. Whether you're sick of buying soap, candles and socks, a game at Breakout can be a great alternative present. Our games are the perfect gift for that fussy friend or family member - we lock them in a room for an hour and test their brain power with our puzzles, riddles and clues to see if they can escape. It's much more exciting than yet another rainy-day boardgame, with the bonus of our…

We are Breakout Chester

26/11/2016 | By Breakout Chester | Category News

We are Breakout Chester, we are a live room escape game situated in the heart of Chester. We challenge members of the public to be locked in one of our puzzle rooms for 60 minutes while they attempt to escape. With the clock ticking down rapidly the challengers search franticly to find clues and solve puzzles to hopefully piece together all the elements they need to Breakout. Opening to the public on November 11th 2016 we launched with just our Vacancy room in which players raced to escape the room before the serial killer motel manager returns and you are…