Grendel

Two rooms in an old Braamfontein printing works. Sixty minutes each.

No actors, no jump scares and nowhere to run. A briefing at the door, a locked room, and a clock that does not stop for anybody.

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Slots are sixty minutes on the hour, with a fifteen-minute briefing before the door closes. Give us the date, how many of you there are and the time you want, and we will hold it.

Two rooms built into a printing works off Juta Street

Grendel is on the ground floor of a building off Juta Street that printed schoolbooks until 1994. We kept the concrete, the loading bay and most of the old wiring, and the two rooms were built into what was already standing rather than set up on top of it. There are no actors in either room and nothing jumps out at you. What is in there is locks, wiring, mechanisms and paper, plus one of us watching a screen, ready to say something over the speaker when a team has been stuck on the same thing for eight minutes. Sixty minutes on the clock, fifteen minutes of briefing before it starts, and about twenty minutes afterwards standing in the passage telling each other what you missed. Tuesday to Thursday, 15:00–22:00 Friday and Saturday, 11:00–23:00 Sunday, 11:00–19:00 Closed Monday Parking is in the lot behind the building on Melle Street and it is free after 17:00. The bar two doors down will hold a table for you afterwards if you tell them what time you finish.

The two rooms and the two rules

The Ticket Office — start here
The Ticket Office — start here
The Signal Box — the harder one
The Signal Box — the harder one
Sixty minutes, and the clock is real
Sixty minutes, and the clock is real
No actors, and nothing jumps out
No actors, and nothing jumps out

Thursday is beginners’ night

Every Thursday from 18:00 the clue budget is unlimited and it is R160 a person. It is for people who have never done one of these before, and it is the night the most teams get out in time.

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The loading bay off Melle Street
The loading bay off Melle Street
The passage
The passage
The Ticket Office
The Ticket Office
The Signal Box
The Signal Box
An empty room, before
An empty room, before
The old works
The old works