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Flash Fiction Winner: Releasing the Genie
Thank you to everyone who participated in LockHouse's first ever flash fiction competition! Read on for the winning story, Releasing the Genie by Alex Minns. About the author: Alex is based in England and has worked in forensics, teaching, PR and been paid to wield...
Spooky Board Games for Halloween
The poet Keats described autumn as the ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. He’s probably right about that, but in our opinion he’s missing some key components—it’s the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness, and spooky board games! With Halloween drawing closer,...
The LockHouse Flash Fiction Competition!
Calling all creative minds! LockHouse Escape Games is running our first ever flash fiction writing competition, on the theme of escape. Send us your stories for a chance to win a free escape game for 4 players. Keep reading for details! What should I write? We’re...
5 Reasons Cambridge Freshers Should Play an Escape Room
Hello, new students! And old students! And anyone else who happens to be reading this! The LockHouse blog is back, and it’s here to convince you all that playing an escape room is the best thing you can do in Cambridge. (Apart from all that life-changing education...
Storytelling in Tabletop RPGs
If you're not playing tabletop RPGs by this point, you've been doing lockdown wrong. And while rolling dice is obviously deeply thrilling, the real magic of TTRPGs comes from the story you're creating with your group. Read on for some tips on storytelling in tabletop...
LockHouse Reviews: Rogue Agent by Escape Live
If you’re anything like us (and since you’re reading this, we assume you are), you’re probably sitting at home right now pining away in agony, gnashing your teeth and desperately wishing you could go play an escape room. Luckily for the sake of our stability, there’s...
5 Stocking Filler Board Games
It's Christmas shopping season once more! Don't know what to get people? Knock yourself out browsing our board game recs. And if you hate the very concept of Christmas shopping, LockHouse is here to rescue you: just buy all the things on this list, and then spend the...
Audio Escape Games To Play At Home
Lots of escape rooms use sound, whether it’s puzzles that rely on audio clues to be solved, a games master giving verbal hints, or just an atmospheric soundtrack to get you in the puzzle-solving zone. Escape rooms that are run mostly through audio are more rare—though...
LockHouse Reviews: Exit Games
Well, folks, we’re back in lockdown. Luckily, the perfect cure for the stress, malaise, and tedium is close at hand, and it comes in the form of an Exit game! Exit games are a series of escape room board games created by Thames and Kosmos, that bring you all the fun...
Eat Out to Help Out in Cambridge This October
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme may have officially ended, but some restaurants are opting to continue offering the discount on their own. Here are five places in Cambridge where you can still Eat Out to Help Out this October! SIX October is the final month to Eat Out...
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70 Regent Street
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Monday-Friday: 12:00-21:15
Saturday: 9:30-22:30
Sunday: 9:30-21:00
