Clue Quest

The people I work with are nerds - no no question about it. And I fit right in. So when they invited me along to a Sunday afternoon trip to London to play Clue Quest - I leapt at the chance. We met up and caught the express train from Slough station and 20 minutes later we were in London Paddington. After hopping about a bit on the underground in a little while we were at King's Cross where we were meeting up with some of the others.

King's Cross is more like a shopping mall than a train station and has this wonderful ceiling. It is also the home of Platform 9 3/4 - hello Harry Potter!





There was a really long queue to have your photo taken so I just snapped this pic from the sidelines. Harry Potter is a big thing here - most adults (perhaps it's just the adults I've met) are quite obsessed. Quite a few of them have kids who were in the movies - Pinewood Studios is just up the road.

After lunch we took a walk up Euston Road and checked out St Pancras - quite a spectacular building.

Once everyone had arrived - there were 10 of us. We walked up behind the station to the venue. It was a lovely hot, sunny day and there was lots to see along the way.

Time to play. Teams of 3 to 5 people are locked inside a suite of rooms and have to find their way out by means of solving puzzles and riddles, finding clues and unlocking all the myriad of locks around the place, all within 60 minutes. It works better if you work together as a team and it's a lot of fun. They do keep an eye on you and supply you with more clues if you are completely stymied. I would recommend it.  And here's a pic of the 2 teams.

After that we went to an Indian Restaurant called Dishoom - a fantastically good restaurance - for supper, By the time we had finished and made our way back via various tube lines to Paddington and home - it was after 10 in the evening. An excellent way of spending a Sunday.