Speakeasy Mobster's Barbershop

This room did enough clever things that I considered giving it a thumbs-up, but this room also committed some major cardinal sins that frankly give escape rooms a bad name. Puzzles are very poorly clued, some props aren’t labeled as they should be, some instructions are really hidden, many locks could work for multiple puzzles, parts of one puzzle are very obscure and hidden (almost where the instructions to not touch certain props would make you ignore this altogether), magnetic unlocks aren’t always apparent, one puzzle requires math, and one puzzle requires outside knowledge. I get that designing fair yet challenging puzzles is a challenge on its own, but it feels like this room’s purported difficulty comes from instances of poor design or insufficient signposting. The room does offer some clever and lesser-utilized puzzles, and some props are quite novel; other props have seen better days. This could be a good room, but it needs to be more fair to its players.

A little dirty but still good. Some puzzles were a little confusing