Granny – for Birthdays
Book for a birthday and receive a special gift from Granny!
Key details
The Story
Planning permission has been secured for a swanky new hotel in the heart of Bethnal Green.
One woman stands in the way of “progress”… Granny.
Granny lives in the last remaining house on Paradise Row, behind an abandoned bookshop. She’s barricaded herself inside, armed with a small arsenal of homemade defences, and is refusing to sell.
Developers who have entered the house to “talk sense” into her have come running out screaming — if they’ve come out at all.
Now the developers are desperate. They’re offering a generous reward to anyone brave enough to enter Granny’s house, survive the encounter, and convince her to sell.
Will that be you?
DISCLAIMER: There are unconfirmed reports of booby traps, an elaborate DIY security system, and previous visitors failing to return calls.
The Game
Granny is an escape room — but on an epic scale.
Instead of a linear sequence of puzzles across one or two rooms, Granny unfolds across an entire seven-room house. There is no prescribed order. You decide where to go, what to tackle first, and how to approach your mission. Those choices matter — and they’ll shape your experience.
The challenges you’ll face are far more varied than in a traditional escape room. We find padlocks boring! Expect physical puzzles, environmental games, hidden mechanisms, and systems that respond to your actions as the house comes alive around you.
This is a non-linear experience. Solving one puzzle doesn’t simply open the next door (in fact, all doors are unlocked throughout). Progress comes from exploration, experimentation, and piecing together the story. As you move through the house, you’ll uncover fragments of Granny’s past — and those discoveries can change what tools and information are available to you. Even the in-game clue system must be unlocked through your actions.
The scale of the house allows teams to spread out, split up, and work in parallel. Granny plays comfortably with as few as four players and up to eighteen, and many smaller teams complete the experience successfully. Success isn’t about numbers — it’s about communication, creativity, and how well you adapt under pressure.
Entry Instructions
Meet outside Thorne's bookshop at the time stated within your Itinerary.
Testimonials
“Probably one of the most imaginative and fun escape rooms we’ve done for a long while… That was absolutely fantastic… Really, really good game. You’ll love it… Cannot recommend this enough, it was so much fun… This isn’t just any normal escape room… The Twister room was hilarious.” – Michael Bolton, ScareTour (2026)
FAQs
How do we redeem your Birthday offer?
All you need to do is mention in the order notes that it is a birthday and we will hide a gift inside the experience for the birthday boy or girl to find (don’t forget to give us their name).
Why is Granny such a great choice for Birthdays?
Granny is an exceptional choice for birthdays because it delivers scale, variety, and shared excitement in a way very few experiences can.
It’s one of the largest escape rooms in the world, packed with imaginative puzzles, physical challenges, and playful surprises. With space for up to 18 players at the same time, it’s ideal for birthday groups who want to stay together rather than being split up — and because there’s so much happening across the experience, no one feels left out or stuck waiting on the sidelines.
While Granny has moments of tension and suspense, it’s never about gore or cheap scares. The pressure is balanced with genuinely fun, laugh-out-loud elements — including our unique twist on the party classic Twister and a chaotic ball pit that always becomes a highlight. The result is an experience that feels thrilling, social, and celebratory rather than intimidating.
Add to that cinematic sets, constant teamwork, and a shared sense of achievement, and you get a birthday people will talk about long after the cake is gone. Take a look at our videos and you’ll quickly see why ScreamWorks — and Granny in particular — is such a popular choice for birthdays.
Oh… and yes — the birthday person gets a free gift too.
Why don’t you give a traditional pre-show briefing?
Because the experience begins the moment you arrive.
We don’t believe immersion should be something you switch on after a safety talk. Being gathered together and told “this is a game, here’s how it works” immediately pulls you out of the world we’ve spent years building.
Instead, Granny starts without announcement. There is no pre-show performance, no out-of-character explanation, and no moment where someone tells you what’s about to happen. You’re not entering a game — you’re stepping into a situation.
Everything you need to know is communicated naturally, in-world, as events unfold. This allows tension, curiosity, and atmosphere to build without interruption, and lets you discover the experience for yourselves rather than being instructed how to play it.
It’s a deliberate design choice.
We trust our players to adapt, explore, and work things out together — just as they would if this were real.
How can 18 players all play Granny at the same time?
The puzzles don’t change.
What changes is how much is happening at once.
Granny is designed so the same challenges work just as well for four people as they do for eighteen. Nothing becomes locked behind a single person or a single task, and there’s never a point where everyone is expected to stand around waiting.
With more people in the house, more things are active at the same time. Different rooms draw attention simultaneously. Discoveries overlap. Conversations happen in parallel.
Some players will be hands-on, tackling physical challenges. Others will be exploring, spotting patterns, sharing discoveries, or keeping track of what’s happening elsewhere. Roles tend to emerge on their own as the experience unfolds. The house doesn’t tell you how to organise yourselves — and there’s no single “right” way through it.
Whether you arrive as a small group or a large one, Granny stays busy. The challenge isn’t finding something to do — it’s deciding what to focus on next.
Do you have a clue system?
Yes — but not a traditional one.
There is no button to press, no camera to look at, and no out-of-world voice telling you what to do next. All information is delivered in-world, as part of the environment itself.
Guidance may appear through phone calls, printed materials, background interruptions, service messages, or systems embedded in the house. Some of it is useful. Some of it is partial. Some of it only makes sense later. Occasionally, it raises more questions than it answers.
This is intentional.
Granny is designed as a continuous, self-contained world. Stepping outside it to request a “clue” would collapse the fiction — and the responsibility — that the experience is built around. Instead of being told what to do, teams are expected to observe, interpret, share information, and decide how to proceed.
Information exists in the house.
What you do with it is up to you.
Why don't you accept late-comers?
Granny begins as soon as the fixed 15-minute check-in window closes.
All of our systems — including safety checks, consent recording, data protection, and in-world personalisation — assume that once this window ends, the experience is already underway and no additional people will enter.
Allowing someone in after that point would place them outside those systems, which we’re legally and operationally unable to do.
For this reason, even if you let us know you’re running late, we can’t admit anyone once the check-in window has closed.
We strongly recommend arriving early and reading the pre-show information we send you. Doing so ensures a smooth check-in and allows the experience to run exactly as intended.