Five Families: Escape Rooms

Step inside New York’s most famous mob landmarks, and get out before the law arrives.

THE LOBBY

Every case starts in a 1931 Art Deco hotel lobby. Check the board for tonight’s rooms and take the elevator up.

THE RAVENITE · FREE

Little Italy, December 1989. Walk down Mulberry Street and into the Ravenite Social Club: the club, the hallway and the apartment upstairs. Follow the clues, find the four digits, open the padlock and escape over the roof before the FBI raid. Along the way, hustle Joey at pool, throw darts, try the Safecracker and the shooting gallery, then play bocce on the roof.

SPARKS STEAK HOUSE · ADD-ON

Midtown Manhattan, 16 December 1985. Minutes after a mob boss was shot dead outside Sparks, you’re sent in to take back anything that’s ours. Work the clue trail from the pavement to the dining room and the back office, crack the safe, cut the chain on the coal hatch and slip out through the alley before the NYPD seal the block.

IN EVERY ROOM

• A voiced intro and real-history cards
• Hints when you’re stuck
• Escape-time leaderboards, plus mini-games with their own scores
• Comfort options: teleport or smooth movement, snap turn, vignette and a seated mode

Made by NCS Productions, the team behind National Crime Syndicate, publishing the history of organised crime since 2005.