About The Magician’s Final Act
The Magician’s Final Act is an escape room for adults full of theatre, illusions and stardust. We are at the Comet variety theatre on an opening night in 1956. In one hour the curtain rises on the very last show of the great illusionist Madame Mirabel. When she asked for volunteers from the audience, you raised your hands, and now you are locked in backstage. It’s part of the act: when the curtain rises, you must be standing in the middle of the stage.
You explore Mirabel’s dressing room, the prop room, the fly loft and the stage behind the curtain. Along the way you read a note in mirror writing, hang the costumes in the right order, uncover the trick behind a mind-reading crystal ball, complete a magic square, turn mirrors until the light hits the dove and hoist the star cloth with exactly the right counterweight. Up in the fly loft you mix coloured light according to the lighting plan, and down on the stage the scenery must be seen from the right seat in the house. Finally you gather the telegrams from all over the theatre and work out the order of Mirabel’s four great illusions.
The puzzles are harder than in our escape rooms for kids, and most of them can only be solved by combining clues from several rooms. That makes it a great theatre escape room for the office party, team building or an evening with friends. If you play the escape room online on a TV, telegrams, lists and plans are shared out across your phones, so you have to talk to each other. The help button gives three levels of hints, and the solutions are new every time.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the theatre on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read Madame Mirabel’s letter in the mirror frame. It tells you what you need for the final act.
- 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 gold stars, set the trapdoor and turn the star wheels on the stage. Tap Help if you get stuck.