Warped escape room

We played 'Warped' with four of us and escaped with 5:35 on the clock. The concept of the game was great, but the room itself had many distractions and a somewhat limited range of challenges. With four relatively experienced players in a small room, there was almost always one person present to twiddle their thumbs - this particular escape game would have been better suited for 3/ 2 players. The dreaded phenomenon of "death by padlocks" was very present, although Breakout Liverpool used all types of padlocks available to them and provided the instructions for opening these padlocks in various ways. Our Game Master (Chip) was very nice and asked us in advance how much more effort we would like to put in before giving out hints - a very nice question that I think the Game Masters themselves should ask more often! However, we waited for ten minutes for her to send us our first clue, and we very much felt that we were treading water, meaning that we had mastered the toughest challenge too quickly and therefore had to wait so that we wouldn't escape with an unreasonable delay. In summary, the room was perfectly adequate - every lock had a key and every puzzle had a code. But the room could have been so much more if the company had invested in more mechanics, puzzles and physical space.