With Challenge Point being a brand new type of experience that we have not seen before in this style, the best way to simply describe it is a mix of Crystal Maze combined with The Cube. Getting the opportunity to play 5 games that last around 5-8 minutes and they all have a different skill set required to score points and become the best team. What was cool to hear is that the winning team would participate in an extra game to score extra points and have a chance to become one of the top 5 teams on the leaderboard. 

The experience is best booked online and teams of 2-6 can play. If you have more than 6 in your group, you are able to split and still play in the same time session. Tickets range from £15 through to £25 per person, dependant on if you go during a peak or off-peak visit and how many are in your team. The pricing seems to be perfect for this, as you can play for £15 per person for up to 90 minutes of entertainment playing a range of games, which is cheaper compared to other immersive experiences, escape rooms or other game show like experiences. 

Currently you can find Challenge Point open Thursday through to Sunday, between 11am to 11pm, which is perfect for the family audience during the day, then friend groups during the evening looking for something different to do. 

The 5 challenges you are guaranteed to play are very different and allow for everybody to shine. From driving tanks to a laser maze to just simply throwing balls into containers, it all requires teamwork in order to score as many points as possible in each and every challenge so you can win during your session. One of our our favourite games would have to be the mini golf, as not only do we love mini golf but we have never seen something so cleverly designed or played in this way. Instead of playing holes 1 to 18 like traditional minigolf, why don’t you play all 18 at the same time? Sounds simple with up to 8 minutes right? Wrong, it was super difficult trying to putt your balls from behind the rope into a series of features and props to get the ball in the hole. You knew you got the number of the hole as it had a flag and lit up a light in the background. The catch was if you did put a ball in a hole twice, it would reset that hole and turn the light off, meaning you would lose points! By far our favourite game. 

On the opposite side of the scale, we played Tokyo Tank, which required you to drive remote control tanks across a series of courses. Again, sounds simple but they have designed it so teamwork & coordination would be required and nothing is as simple as just driving a tank. Unfortunately, it seems the tanks didn’t like us and we had multiple issues across 2 attempts of playing this room. Whilst we can imagine it would be amazing to experience when fully working, it didn’t happen during our session.