About The Crown Bank Job
The Crown Bank Job is an escape room for adults with a retro-style heist. It is November 1974 in Copenhagen, and the time is 2:13 am. Henning the night guard has just set off on his round, and he will be back in 47 minutes. Director Brandt has told the newspaper that nobody can open the bank’s new vault, so an insurance company has hired your crew to prove the opposite: get the Golden Crown out of the vault and leave your calling card instead. No violence, no damage, just style.
You explore the banking hall, the guard room, the director’s office and finally the vault itself. Along the way you check the deposit slips against the coin counter’s paper strip, turn the cameras away from your route, switch off the vault alarm with a wiring diagram, work out the guard’s round from his memo notes, steer the pneumatic tube down from the director’s office, dial a rotary phone and set the time lock’s four clockworks by the director’s calendar. Finally two of you must turn a key each at the same time, and four punch cards must be laid on top of each other to find the right deposit box.
It is an online escape room for the company party, team building, the Christmas party or an evening with friends. The puzzles are hard, and most can only be solved when you put the clues together. If you play on the TV, notes, lists and cards are handed out to your phones, so you have to talk to each other. The hint button gives three levels of hints, and the codes are new every time.
How to play
- Gather the crew around the iPad, or put the bank on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read the Countess’s plan. It explains what the vault door needs and where to start.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look, and switch rooms with the buttons at the top. Locked rooms open along the way.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Tap an item twice to look at it more closely.
- Find both vault keys and all four punch cards, and open the right deposit box. Tap Hint if you get stuck.