GAME OF MINDS - Busan's Escape Room - New Rooms in Gwangan & Seomyeon!

From Ryan Estrada:

"BUSAN PEEPS! I highly recommend you escape from a KGB prison. A new place opened up on Gwangan Beach that will lock you and your friends in a prison cell and let you bust out using only the puzzle solving skills you learned in old school Lucas Arts Adventure Games.

I had so much fun that I'm going next week to do their Polar Ice Station escape! I'm fully supportive of weird things in Busan, and turning spaces into things that are not coffee shops or cell phone stores.

It's GAME of MINDS BUSAN, right next door to Beached Bar, on the seventh floor above Can:D Grab three friends, book a time at game-of-minds.com and bond over jailbreaking. That's my review. I ain't telling you nothin' that happens once you're inside."

So, 4 of us checked out the Game of Minds last night and had a simply fantastic time. The evening began with management running a little behind, as I assume the previous group was not of the same mental acumen as our assembly. Filled with confidence, perhaps, too much, we bravely read through the rather length legalese waiver and rule sheet. In fact, the man who greeted us, a bearded Russian, he himself adding to the intrigue of the evening, seemed quite serious about communicating the rules to us. This is, I believe, was due to his being a careful foreign businessman in Korea, and due to the fact that he actually may, were it not for his deceivingly youthful appearance, have been a KGB agent from the 1960’s and his incessant need to follow rules was honed to an obsession. He then launched into the story set-up and locked us in a small room. After about what only seemed like a few minutes, a young woman's voice boomed over an intercom, "Do you need a clue?" We all simultaneously hollered at the ceiling a resounding, "No!" We were determined to outwit our evil captors and escape using only our minds and the contents of the room itself. This room proved to be rather trickier than expected and we came close to cracking under the pressure of an invisible but ever present time limit. And, just as we were about to snap, the solution was discovered and we slipped into the next room, giddy at the presentation of a whole new host of puzzles. The second room was challenging, but this too we solved, which led to yet another room, it too filled with a host of puzzles. But, we could now almost taste freedom and we scurried about the room stripping it slowly of its conundrums until, ultimately, we discovered the last step and ran from the room to the sound of a large KGB klaxon announcing our success. Bloody brilliant fun was had by all! In the end, we proudly escaped the room in 41 minutes and 7 seconds with NO clues. A proud accomplishment. The iron curtain made a little less terrifying

This is one of the best things my husband and I have done! We had so much fun, and found it to be a highly entertaining time.

The details/clues in the Polar Station room were ultra creative, well executed and challenging but doable (with a few helpful hints given to us when we asked for them). 

I can't recommend this enough - it's a truly unique experience that gets you thinking, calls for teamwork, immerses you into a mystery and challenges you to figure out how to connect all of the dots.

A full 5 out of 5 - we're booked in for the KGB room next week!