ESCAPE REALITY

Become: A prisoner in Alcatraz; a player in Jumanji, or your favourite Game Of Thrones character.

Eight different themed rooms, which you and your team need to escape from. Among the highlights are a junglethemed one, one based on the Saw franchise, a number of horror-themed ones and, our favourite, the Game Of Thrones room. As usual,

The concept:

you’ve got one hour to solve the riddles and escape, but there’s one main point of difference: there’s an iPad that you can resort to if you need a hint. A word of warning, though: taking that hint will add five minutes to your total time.

The Game Of Thrones themed room is solely riddles-based, and there’s no clambering around under chairs to find hidden keys or messages. As skills go, arithmetic is low on us journalists’ skillset, and we ended up overthinking things to such an extent that we talked

The game:

ourselves 12 minutes past a correct answer.Eventually, we emphatically charged out of our dungeon room as the clock hit a glacial 53 minutes (with a five-minute penalty we clocked up on the very first riddle).

You don’t actually need any knowledge of Game Of Thrones to succeed. The fantastical theme music really sets the tone, though, and the rooms are decked out to such an extent that

What we think:

we could’ve just walked on to an HBO set. Our advice? Don’t overthink. And, don’t choose volatile friends or colleagues (it’s a combined space and riddle cracking is a stressful pursuit).

Escape Reality, Indigo Sky Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, Sun to Thur noon to 10.30pm, Fri and Sat noon to midnight, Dhs110 for four players on weekdays, Dhs130 weekends. Tel: (04) 332777. Metro: FGB. escapereality.com