Do you have what it takes to take on The Cube? The Cube LIVE is a brand new attraction at Urban Playground in Manchester that allows you to take part in your own version of this famous TV show! Costing £60 for a pair of tickets, it allows you to play 7 original games from the TV series as you battle to score the highest amount of points. Teams must contain 2 players however, groups will have 2 teams, so you may be paired with another random team if you book separately. It is good to note, you still get to play as your team and this is simply to enhance your experience and make it last longer!
The Cube LIVE is the only life like experience we’ve seen in the UK to replicate what the show could offer. Before now, you couldn’t play these games unless you was on the show!
“Gone are the days of enjoying The Cube from the comfort of your sofa. Now the award-winning hit show has left the studio and for the first time ever YOU can take it on.
The Cube Live drops you right into the intensity of the TV gameshow. It may look straightforward when you watch at home, but will you be able to hold your own when you are faced with The Cube?
The Cube Live will feature many of your favourite games from the original TV series to keep you on your toes. In teams of up to four The Cube will choose seven iconic games, both single and two player, for you and your team-mates to play.”
When pre-booking or booking on site to play The Cube Live, you will receive a QR code via email which you’ll need to keep for the duration of the experience. This is how the game will work and track your experience. The first station is setting up and checking in which is done at the entrance. Scanning into a large touch screen station, you are introduced with the rules in video & text form, alongside setting up your team name and confirming all the boring T&C’s.
Whilst some of the rules are a little different to the TV show and it can seem like a lot and even a tad confusing, it breaks down real easy. You get 3 lives per game and you score more points per game depending on how many life remains at the end of each game. Scores start low but they progress as the games get harder. You get two lifelines which you can only use once during your experience, one being simplify, which makes one game easier. The other being swap, which allows during a single player challenge to swap with your team mate. Some games are single player whilst others require both contestants. Each experience is different to the last and the challenges played are selected at random by The Cube Live system. To keep track of each game, you have a live host which helps you navigate throughout the challenges and also runs them for you. Each cube hosts a different challenge and to find out where your going, the rules and more, you will scan in using the QR code at each station and it’ll tell you everything you need to know. If not, your host will assist! Easy!
During our experience, we got to play 7 randomly selected games. We got to play Loop, which was a single player challenge that required a ball to be rolled around a loop and land in a box that was some distance away after the loop. It required skill, precision and focus. Managing to secure it with only losing 1 life, it was a huge success! Not all games are easy, we took on Synchronicity, a 2 player challenge that required both of us to throw a ball to the opposite corner of the cube, hitting a designated red area and to do it in 0.05 of a second difference too! Successfully achieving thon our third life was well earned.
The Cube didn’t keep it easy, as we got further into the 7 games, they got harder and we started to crumble. Aperture was our penultimate challenge and you had to get 25 balls into the box with a hole just big enough for the ball, using just one hand with just 20 seconds on the clock. Easy right? No… we used our swap and failed this with the closest being 3 balls away!
With this just being a snippet of the games we got to take on in The Cube Live, each game was exhilarating, thrilling and a fun challenge. It was great to take part in what most people have seen on TV and saying how easy it is, but when your standing in a life like cube, it becomes very real and very difficult fast. The hosts we had were friendly, interactive and kept the hour we played entertaining. Everything combined really is mind blowing and is pushing the entertainment industry further into some high quality, social fun.
Overall, The Cube Live is like nothing we’ve experienced in the UK. With more social, interactive, high quality entertainment becoming available, Urban Playground have one of the hottest attractions not only in Manchester, but throughout the UK right now. If you are a family looking for an afternoon out, a couple looking for a different date night or a group of friends looking for something more with your drinks, then The Cube Live at Urban Playground is just that.
We love to say thank you to the Urban Playground team for allowing us to experience The Cube Live and giving us a private 2 player experience free.
Think you have what it takes to beat The Cube? Then book today via the Urban Playground website to finally find out…
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