60 Minutes – LOTR – Isengard Unleashed

Fury team 1: Lilyana Boneva, Venelin Gornishki, Monika Gornishka

Fury 1 time: 57:12 minutes

Fury team 2: Velina Tomova, Hristo Tomov, Anton Konduzov, Vanya Stoitseva and Bistra-Dona Konduzova

Fury 2 time: 42:30 minutes

Fury team 3: Veronika Mancheva, Miroslav Manchev, Ivan Vladimirov, Dimitar Smilyanov and Nadezhda Danabasheva

Fury 3 time: 53:52 minutes

Date: January 27, 2024

Some might say: ‘But when you buy ‘Kinder Pingui’, you don’t expect to find penguins inside’, and they’re probably right. But from my perspective, if you’ve named the room ‘The Lord of the Rings – Isengard,’ it’s desirable to have at least a faint resemblance of an orc inside, some Rohirrims, at least one wizard, not necessarily gray or white, we would have settled for orange. But nope – no ents, no battle, no movies.

Okay, there’s the music from the movie, and that’s the only connection I found.

I named this room ‘Push-Pull’ because each puzzle had a physical aspect and required either pushing, pulling, or both. Accordingly, if you don’t know what you’re doing, with enough pushing and pulling, sooner or later, you’ll succeed. From a safety point of view, there’s a pretty good chance someone might break a neck, especially if they’re not careful and it happens in more than one place. You do the same thing 30 times: shoot with a bow, for example. It doesn’t work 29 times; on the last attempt, it works after doing EXACTLY the same thing as the previous 29 attempts, and it’s unclear why it works. The entire room is located in the enviable 15 square meters, meaning Isengard has been reduced to the size of a garden shed.

I admit there was a cool puzzle with lasers (Isengard, lasers, um… 😵🤨🥴). I escaped the room, crawling on my stomach and wondering how the Gornishki family would escape (considering Moni is pregnant). They succeeded…

P.S. Miro was so inspired; in the car, he shouted: ‘There will be no dawn for men, TO BATTLE-E-E-E-E-E!’. And to continue the agony, this was NOT the worst Lord of the Rings room we were going to play that day…”