Titterton’s Toffees

This is a review of the Escape Room “Titterton’s Toffees” offered by Escape Quest in Macclesfield, UK.

⭐️ 9/10
🌡 Difficult
⏳ 60 Minutes
👥 2 – 10 Person

Escape Quest in Macclesfield has a very special game concept! At the heart of the now five unique storylines, which are called Chapelgate Mysteries and which rotate in a cycle of around three months, is an alley with many shops – Chapel Street. The scenarios take place in an elaborate set at different time periods, and the players use a time machine to travel through time to solve a mystery or complete a specific mission.

Our journey takes us back to the year 1553, where we are supposed to help young Terry Titterton get his parents’ glorious toffee business up and running again. To do this, we have to repair the old toffee machine and find out how to use it.

As with all Chapelgate Mysteries, there is a specific goal to be achieved. In our case, this was to make at least 6 boxes of toffees. Once you have achieved this, the mission is complete, but the game is not over. The time detectives can use the remaining time to solve more puzzles and produce even more toffee boxes. The maximum number of boxes possible remains a secret. In this case, instead of the number of toffees, the team photo simply says Classified.

At Titterton’s Toffees, the time detectives can expect, as always, a great set, lots of fun, and countless original puzzles. No matter which mystery is currently on the agenda at Escape Quest, you can book it blind.

Heiner Stepen

I am an enthusiast and escape traveler since 2014. I'm running Escape Roomers De (https://linktr.ee/escaperoomersde), a review website and Facebook group which is covering Germany, Europe and beyond. I played more than 2.500 live escape games and over 650 remote escape games in many different countries. Since 2023 I rent out mobile escape games (https://thepuzzlebox.de/)

Escape Quest Macclesfield, UK

14 July 2024
18:00

Titterton’s Toffees first opened their doors on Chapel street in 1933. They were soon to be regarded as one of the highest quality toffee makers in the country, eventually being awarded with a Royal warrant.
They were a small family business and made almost everything in the back room of their shop. Things were going well for Titterton’s, they had great plans for the future with demand for their toffees increasing, and then the war arrived. Terry Titterton was just 8 years old at the time when he and his mother were left to run the shop alone after his father was called up to fight.
As the war raged on and rationing came in to effect, the shop was sadly forced to close.
Almost 20 years later Terry still reminisced about the days he spent watching his dear now departed parents making the toffee.
On Wednesday 5 February 1953 the Food Minister announced in Parliament and to the Commons that ration and price control on chocolate and sweets had officially come to an end across the United Kingdom.
Over the course of the next few months a flurry of sweet shops, small and large scale confectionery manufacturers sprung up across the country.
Passing the old shop one day Terry noticed a for sale sign in the window, he peered through the cracked windowpane to view the dusty interior and to his astonishment the shop looked just as it did the last time he saw it!
Terry bought the shop and started to clean the place up. News travelled to the palace that the Queen’s favourite toffee maker was reopening and she sent an order directly to Terry to produce some of her favourite toffees in time for her Coronation. All he needed now was to fix the old toffee machine and work out how to use it.
Can you detectives help Terry get his parents once glorious toffee business back up and running?
I think if we could start with making 6 boxes of toffees to send to the Royal household in time for the Queen’s Coronation, we might be able to get the Royal warrant reinstated, which would go a long way to once again making Titterton’s toffees a household name.

⭐️ Rating: 9/10

🌡 Level: Difficult

🎭 Acting: No

👥 2 – 10 Person

⏳ 60 Minutes

🗣 Language: en

💶 76€ – 291€

🔑 Solved (60 Min.)