About The Wine Cellar
The Wine Cellar is an escape room for adults, made for the office party, team building and a good evening with friends. The restaurant The Golden Stag is celebrating its first 100 years, and the guests are waiting for dessert and the famous anniversary bottle. But Margit, the sommelier, has vanished without a trace, and only she knows the code to the cabinet with the bottle. You are the kitchen and floor staff, and you are sent down into the vaulted cellar to follow her trail.
You explore the tasting room, the vaults with the big racks, the cooper’s corner and Margit’s little office. Along the way you compare tasting cards with the map of the vineyards, work out Margit’s vintage from the reservation book and the menu, read the temperature log, find the right bottle in the rack, piece together the old seal from worn corks and count backwards from dessert. Finally, the pages from Margit’s tasting diary must reveal the order in which she tasted her four wines.
Wine is just the setting: nobody has to drink anything, and you don’t need to know anything about wine. The puzzles are harder than in our escape rooms for children, and most can only be solved when you put the clues together. If you play on a TV, cards, lists and notes are handed out on 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 cellar on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read Margit’s letter on the iron gate. It tells you what you need to find.
- 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 a thing in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Two things in the bag can be combined, and tapping a thing twice shows it up close.
- Find Margit’s four corks, type the code for the anniversary cabinet and send the bottle up to the right table. Tap Hint if you get stuck.