Professor Moriarty's Gameroom

This isn’t really an escape room but more like a room full of unconnected puzzles leading to a rather obscure and unexplained ending. When we went the employees were almost exclusively young college students which isn’t super unusual but is always a little annoying when it happens. The game master was in the room with us and basically sat on her phone the whole time only surfacing to take clues away from us once we solved puzzles, rather than trusting us to recognize clues and put them in a safe location. It was a weird experience and we felt pretty unfulfilled afterward. We never went back to do any of the other rooms after this experience.

This was one of the earliest escape rooms in my experience. It was less of a connected puzzle and story and more of a solve each puzzle and open each lock/key.