About The Laboratory
The Laboratory is an online escape room for adults, made for friends, company parties and team building. It’s 9 am in the Scent Company’s laboratory, and in one hour the company’s new anniversary scent is being launched. But the only copy of the recipe is locked in Professor Lund’s safe, and the professor has gone off to her own farewell reception, leaving a note saying you can work it out yourselves.
You explore the mixing lab, the archive, the greenhouse and the professor’s office. Along the way you mix colours from today’s log, measure exactly the right amount of water with two jugs, load the centrifuge so it’s balanced, count balls on molecule cards, read pH strips and work out dates and times. Finally you piece together the recipe the professor tore up and find the scents in the aroma table.
The puzzles are harder than in our escape rooms for kids, and most can only be solved by putting the clues together. If you play on a TV, tables, notes and labels are handed out to your phones, so you have to talk to each other. The help button gives three levels of hints, and the puzzles are new every time. Everything in the lab is made up and completely harmless.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the lab on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read Professor Lund’s note on the noticeboard. It tells you what the safe needs.
- 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 the four scent capsules and the pieces of the recipe, then put the capsules into the dosing machine in the right order. Tap Help if you get stuck.