Time Machine

Who the Time Machine escape room suits

Time Machine is an escape room in Riga that children can play from the age of 6. None of the nine rooms has a lower age limit, which makes this one worth a look if your family includes a preschooler or a child in the first school years.

• Families with children. Parents and kids play as one team, up to five players in total.
• Children's birthdays. The age limit is 6, and in the party package a game master helps the children during the quest.
• Friends and couples. Two players are enough to start, and the medium difficulty gives you a full hour of real thinking.
• Mixed groups. When your group has both children and adults, this is a room where everyone plays together.

If you are planning a day out with kids and comparing options, the guide to things to do in Riga with children lists more ideas.

How the game works: a lab where time has broken

The story starts in a secret laboratory. A brilliant scientist has built a time machine there, but something went wrong and the flow of time has been destabilised. Your team has to solve the scientist's puzzles, set the time coordinates and get back to your own era.

The setting is futuristic, with interactive elements, light effects and mechanical puzzles. The short room description puts it in one line: every gear and every light could be the key to the future. So look around the whole room, not only at whatever is right in front of you.

• Duration: 60 minutes.
• Team size: 2 to 5 players.
• Age: 6 and up.
• Difficulty: medium.

In a mixed team it helps to split the work. One person follows the lights, another studies the mechanisms, a third keeps track of what you have already found. Let the youngest say out loud what they spot: a gear or a light an adult walked past may turn out to be the key.

Where to find Time Machine, and what else is there

The address is Jeruzalemes iela 2/4 - 18, Riga. Two more escape games share the same location, each with its own story:

• Captain's Cabin: the cursed cabin of an old sea wolf, also from age 6, with children up to 12 playing alongside an adult.
• The Experiment: a different laboratory, where a scientist has vanished, for players aged 16 and up.

The three rooms together hold up to 15 people at once. That works well for a bigger group of mixed ages: younger players take Time Machine or Captain's Cabin, while adults and anyone 16 or older take The Experiment. For a school class, a group of friends or colleagues, see the group and corporate events page. If you book three or more rooms at the same time, the price is agreed individually.

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