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Designing for Any Space: Turning Even a Hole in the Wall into an Incredible Experience

When I first opened The Lift Shaft, I had a little devil on my shoulder (also in the form of my partner and friends) telling me that the…

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Designing for Creative Freedom – Escaping the Escape Room Tropes

In escape room design, creativity is often the main currency, the thing we’re all chasing. We want our players to be surprised, engaged, maybe even a little disturbed…

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Beyond The Game: Escape Games Are More Than Just Puzzles.

The more escape rooms I play, the more I notice venues overlooking the experience around the rooms themselves. It’s great that so much thought goes into the puzzles,…

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Why One Room Is All You Need – Rethinking the escape room experience.

There are people in the immersive industry who say every escape room needs multiple rooms. But is that really true? I’m challenging the idea that multiple rooms equals…

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Comic Chaos - Showing a unique room design

Why ‘Unique’ Matters In The Escape Room Industry.

Let’s be honest, the escape room industry has blown up over the last decade. Escape rooms are almost everywhere these days, and if you’re reading this, you’ve likely…

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Comic Chaos Escape Room in Brighton | The Lift

Stop Dr Riddlesworth and his colour stealing machine before he takes over the world!

  • 2–6 players
  • 10+
  • Escape Room
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The Lift Shaft Escape Room in Brighton | The Lift

Disaster strikes in the lift shaft. Can you engineer your way to safety?

  • 2–4 players
  • 10+
  • Escape Room
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Seconds From Disaster experience at The Lift Escape Rooms in Brighton

Crack the puzzles, solve the mystery then take the controls and land the plane on a real flight simulator.

  • 2–4 players
  • 14+
  • Tabletop + Flight Sim
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Puzzle Panic experience at The Lift Escape Rooms in Brighton

Dr Riddlesworth is back! And this time he's kidnapped our local heroes. It's up to you to stop him.

  • 2–6 players
  • 10+
  • Outdoor Game
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