Professor Puzzle | Danger In The Deep | Puzzle | Ages 14+ | 1-6 Players

Played this with a group of friends over the weekend and had a great time. We’d played a couple of games like this before, but I would guess that brand new players would enjoy this too. We did it in just under two hours.There’s are quite a lot of book pages that you can look through as the game starts, which we thought would be a bit intimidating, as it turned out the game starts pretty easy before ramping up into the harder puzzles.The art is really lovely, and the materials all felt high quality. The blacklight torch was fun to use, and some of the later puzzles are really clever. If you get stuck, there are some scratchable hints which help out but without giving too much away. Would recommend.

We play loads of escape room type games as a family and so we are familiar with a lot of the ideas. This game was very at at using ideas that we haven’t seen previously. Good fun. Not too tough, not too easy. We really liked it.

To quote my Dad ‘I didn’t know Einstein made puzzles’ - this was hard! Fun but definitely more challenging than other similar games we’ve played. The last card tells you to reward yourself with a coffee but I think we all needed something stronger!

This was a great escape room game to people used to the genre of using out of the box (literally) thinking for board game escape rooms. puzzles were at about the sweet spot not to hard but not to simple

I have played all the Professor Puzzle home games and have loved all of them. Their biggest asset is that they really are logic based rather than jumping through convoluted hoops like some of their competitors.The design of this particular game is brilliant, a real throw back to 60s Sci fi which I adore. Professor Puzzle is really a standout in the market

Great quality materials and variety of components make this a run product. Difficulty pitched just right for adults. We played with our 30 year old son. Clever use of “blacklight” torch which came with batteries, and other props. We used a few hints but it is very playable. The only issue for me is that in order to play it you effectively destroy it! Hints are scratch card. Quite a bit of cutting or tearing is involved which means it can’t be re-set and passed on to anyone else to have a go. This is a shame especially as it is made with such great quality materials and feels a bit wasteful when there is no point in doing anything other than chucking the lot into recycling after you have played.

Great for people who think a little differently

Opened the box to have a look at all the pieces before playing and tried to use the black light to test if it was working, it wasn’t but the product said that it included batteries so we opened the torch and took the case out to put new ones in and battery acid leaked everywhere and the whole thing was covered in rust and liquid. Very dangerous and very surprised that no quality check went on to check that it was okay before sending as the rust indicated it had been like that for quite a while. Keep in mind before buying and don’t buy for kids hazardous af.

Have had a good time with my wife and 27-years old daughter. Riddles are reasonable challenging and in line with the theme. Daughter commented this was the best escape room game we had played so far ( and we had quite a few from different companies). Personally, I prefer more real-life-like challenges than creative think-out-of-the-square type riddles, but I guess I am the minority. So still a five-stars for a family get-together game.

This "Danger in The Deep" Escape Room in a box style game by Professor Puzzle Game is absolutely a gem! Super fun, and intriguing theme, and if you dimmed the light (or add in some dim red lighting) plus playing the "The Hunt for Red October" soundtrack in the background, you will be right the environment.The game is designed for up to 6 players, but I think 4 players or so is optimal. The game is listed for 14+, which I think it is appropriate, a younger player as young as 10 can participate, yet, the game may lose them or they may get frustrated at some point.Overall the game is quite fun and engaging, great cooperative game, every one can take different puzzles to try, and then they can also switch mid-way or have multiple person working on the same puzzle. The expected play time of the game is 2 hours, and trust me, it will packed and fly by fast; the game can be actually be completed between 1.5hrs to 2hrs or shorter if you have very experienced players (yet no one will feel that this is too easy). So, assemble your team, set aside enough time, and tackle this fun game.One unfortunate thing, as will almost any "escape room in a box" game, is that the replayability is quite limit. Yet, I guess, this game cost much less than a handful of people attending an actual, physical escape room, so, I feel that the cost for even an one-time play is justified and not too bad.Thank you for reading this review, I hoped that this review & the pictures are helpful to you in support of your purchase decision.

The game pretty much requires a blacklight to play. There is a torch included; however, there are no batteries in it. I tried every type of watch type battery I owned and could not find one that worked in this torch. Thus, we could not play the game. We were forced to use hints on the blacklight items to advance in the game.

This is an "Escape Room in a Box" style of game that attempts to replicate the real-life escape rooms by giving you a large number of puzzles to solve all threaded around a paper-thin story line involving a submarine.Like a lot of these "in a box" escape rooms, this one is extremely linear, and there is only one puzzle to work on at a time. Once you solve that, you're given one or maybe two cards that have a bit of story and the next puzzle to work out. Most of the clues you'll need are given to you in a few little booklets that are similar to what you'd find in the EXIT series, and the first eight or so are fine - no big stretches of imagination are really required. Once you hit puzzle eight, things start to go a little off the rails, as my wife and I required all three hints to solve two very esoteric solutions towards the end (the sonar map and the one which requires the badge).Overall, the game has mostly very good components (outside of the finicky blacklight that barely worked), and understandable puzzles and solutions. This is a rather long experience, and could have been cut short by removing a few of the end puzzles.Not a bad escape room experience by any means, but it could have been better. We won with 6 hints (all used on just two bad puzzles) in about 95 minutes, and we're rather experienced escape room players.

I'd give this 3.5 stars if I could. The game was mostly fun. Most of the puzzles were logical. There were a couple of puzzles that were a stretch. The components were mostly well made (my flashlight didn't have any issues, and it did come with batteries in). The puzzles are similar in type and component use to the Escape Room in a Box games. There is no app or computer use required. The game does get destroyed in a single play. You cannot reset it to pass it on to someone else. Too many components have to be destroyed to play. It seems a little expensive for a couple hours of game play, and it bothers me how wasteful it is to recycle the game components after a single play, but it was just as fun to play as the numerous other at home escape rooms we've tried. Theme and content are family friendly, there isn't any horror, gore, or violence. Overall I'd recommend it. I wouldn't play with more than 2 people, there's just not enough to do, and the puzzles are linear so you can't have multiple people working on different puzzles at the same time.