Legend X Iteration

Came here tonight for my birthday. This was honestly one of the most fun things we have ever done. There was a group of us and even though we didn’t figure it out in time we had a blast. Definitely will be coming back to do the second and third rooms. The owner is awesome and made it a great experience. It literally felt like we were in a video game.

This was super fun and very well put together. The puzzles were great. Definitely going back to the next room.

We did the Royal Library and got a sneak peak of the Alley. I am torn between giving this place a 5 star or a 4 star. This is a unique situation in which I think they did a lot of stuff right, and they can fix the flaws without too much effort. But there is definitely room for improvement, though.
Puzzles ⁵⁄₅ stars
The puzzles are fun, unique when compared to other escape rooms, and uses good technology. I’ve been to another escape room where the technology demanded too much precision, but it was not the case with Legend X. It was satisfying solving the puzzles, and the difficulty level was good for our group (we are escape room vets but none of us are geniuses) There were not a ton of puzzles, but they were quality linear puzzles. I do not recommend going with more than 4 people, otherwise there will be players without anything to do.
Location/​customer service ⁵⁄₅ stars
The owner was a cool dude to talk to, despite the language barrier. You can tell he has a lot of passion for the business. What I liked most was that they give you a decent quality photo of your team after you are done… Nice touch! The location has plenty of parking, but the bathrooms at the business were a bit dirty. The business is located close to Mitsua and Din Tai Fung, so you can continue your Asian immersion after the game!
Story Immersion ³⁄₅ Stars
The owner developed a pretty cool story backdrop, but the hint system bothered me. We had to walky talky the owner in, he unlocks the room, comes in, and talks to us face to face. That killed a lot of the immersion for me. I would much rather have the intercom hint system. Some of the ‘magical item’ props they used for the game was actually from a completely different genre of comic book entertainment. I felt like they could’ve ‘china-​fied’ some of the props to add to the immersion. The China theme is gold in the OC area, in my opinion. There are a ton of horror/​jail breaks/​detective theme escape games, but the China theme is unique. I felt that the owner could do more to leverage that.
Set 3.5÷5 Stars
The China theme is nice, but I think they could spend a little more for solid props for the game. The space for the game is smallish, but it works out for a smaller group.
Extras ⁵⁄₅ Stars AWESOME!
The coolest part of this game is that you can advance to the next room upon completion of the first one. How cool is that!!! But they don’t give you extra time, which is completely understandable.
All in all, I like this escape room. It was fun, unique, and definitely worth a try.

This is my 6^th and 7^th escape room (we did 2 back to back). We really like this escape room and that we all got our own powers which was pretty neat. There are a lot of fun hidden things to figure out. These escape rooms are not easy tho! Definitely get more coins to get hints throughout. I’d be impressed if people solved it without hints. The theme and story is really funny and the staff was so kind! We definitely want to try and complete the final room! #teamskippinsteps :) oh also, I love that they give you an actual hardcopy of your group photo! Classy touch!

LXI was an amazing experience! JW was super accommodating with my reservation, and replied back to us very quickly. My friends and I came to LXI on January 16^th, to celebrate my birthday. Not only did JW work with us on the reservation being a different time than offered online (we were coming from a birthday dinner reservation) but he was so friendly and helpful with the hints!
We really enjoyed how The Dynasty had a theme and set of three rooms that went from one room to the next. It was very clever and innovative, and really surprising with the special effects! We’ve done one other escape room before, but we really liked how there were different puzzles to be done. You didn’t have to figure out one step before getting to the next step. So our group could split up and do different things.
The escape room really gets you to think in different ways, and work as a team. It was so much fun, and we are definitely going to go back! JW was also super chill and had a great way of coming in and giving you pointers when you ask for a hint without making you feel dumb. That was great!
Thank you JW & LXI for an awesome birthday!!!

The best part of this escape room that makes it WAY better than all the others is that once you beat the first room, you can move on to the next until you run out of time.
All other rooms I have been to, once you escape, you get a pat on the back and then it is done. But at legend X, you just keep playing and totally get your money’s worth.
Everything about this experience was awesome. The room was hard enough but not TOO difficult for myself and three friends who frequently play board games. $ 30 a person on the weekend is reasonable and worth it!

Novel theme, great customer service. This is our 3^rd escape room. Take everything they say to heart, during the briefing and apply it. Glad they gave an option to get more hints by checking in on social media. In order to be successful, everything is exact and sensitive. We did it just the 2 of us, as a last minute excursion since we were in the OC area. Had to use our 3 hints on order to be successful.

This is my first escape room and it was incredible! I came here in a group of 6 and we tried the Royal Library room (first room). Everything there had a purpose and required us to be very resourceful! We could work on multiple puzzles at once so if we couldn’t figure one out right away, we could always focus on the other. We barely got frustrated/​stuck for a long time and used 2 hints in the first room. There are also some pretty cool tech things/​mechanics and some things could be deceiving! Also, I really like how the rooms have some sort of storyline — I think it becomes more interesting.
Solving the first room led us to the Alley (second room) and we used our remaining time from the 1 hour time limit to explore/​solve things. I think the transition from the library to alley was the most frustrating part because only 2 people could work on the puzzle (very clever but took too long and I had nothing to do) to get us all into the second room. But that second room was actually really pretty (and small — but that means everything should be right in front of you, right?). I’m definitely coming back to solve that room and enter the third (hardest)!
I would suggest using up all your remaining hints to get as far as you can on your second room because we wouldn’t have completed the second room given the amount of time we had left — but perhaps we could’ve gotten farther. Also, don’t play with the pocketwatch they lend you because I accidentally stopped it and couldn’t tell how much time I had left OOPS: P
Finally, a huge thanks to the guy working there. He’s super nice and helpful! He also explained the hints really well (and straight to the point so that we didn’t waste time) when we needed help. We even got a photo printed at the end for completing the room, hurrah!

I had found a deal for this room so I decided to get a group of friends together to check it out. The host explained the theme and different roles each of us were assigned. Listen carefully since there are some hints as to what certain things will be used for when you’re in the room. We checked in to get more hints and were given gold coins as our «payment» to get the hint. As a side note, the toilet was a bit dirtier than ones I’ve seen and may need to be maintained a bit more.
Now onto the room… the props and clues fit the theme of the room perfectly. The room was a bit small for our group (there were 7 of us) but we made it work. We got stumped a couple of times and ended up needing two hints. We finished the room in about 36 mins but we weren’t allowed to continue on to the 2^nd room (since our coupon was only good for one room) but we got a preview of it and it didn’t seem too bad.
All in all, fun room with cool technology and cool theme.

This is the first time any of us have ever tried this. It really requires focus and a combination of different types of thinking. It was a lot of fun though and my family and I laughed at each other and just went with it. We accidentally solved some of the puzzles by mistakes and not in order. How we managed to do that, I have no idea. That seems to be the pattern with us.
Anyway, we will do the next room next time because we only had 5 minutes left to spare.
Customer service was great and we had a good host!

Got a Groupon deal for Legend X Iteration so we came by to try it out. The staff was really nice and gave us a few extra hint coins for checking in on social media accounts. We don’t really like using hints but appreciated the option to obtain extra hints. (This really helps out for new escape room players) They even let us use the extra time we had from escaping the first room to explore and try to solve the second room. We thought that was pretty neat and different from other escape rooms.
The rooms were decorated nicely with everything from furniture to puzzles matching the theme/​story. I felt there was a good variety of puzzles and good use of tech on some puzzles. A few of the puzzles were a bit frustrating as they didn’t seem to work as well as they could or as intended but we got through them eventually. Overall though we loved our first experience and even came back to try the second room after escaping the first one. I would highly recommend groups of 3 – 5 to come and try this place. The rooms are kind of small so I wouldn’t recommend bringing bigger groups. Can’t wait to come back to finish the other rooms!

Legend X Iteration is a good escape room. The owner is very nice and hospitable. He clearly explained the rules of the room even with an accent. He took us through the story and locked us in.
The powers were a little funny but they were integral to solving the puzzles in the room. I really liked the story line that came with the game and the production values were very high. It felt like a Chinese room. The décor definitely matched what they were going for theme wise.
The puzzles were pretty intricate and led from one to another. There was one puzzle halfway through the Royal Library that was pretty ingenious. We used the groupon so were only allowed to see the first room.
It would be interesting to go get through all the rooms. Maybe on a different day!

I want to start with… if you’re looking for a good escape room, don’t let my three stars deter you! Staff is extremely friendly, room is well done, and some of the puzzles are very interesting. Any escape room three stars and up in my opinion is one that I would tell people to give a shot at.
We had a group of 6 people, but came as three separate groups of two. Despite that, everyone had their «moment» when they were able to figure out a problem that nobody else could quite figure out. Another key thing is communicating with everyone in your group every time a new puzzle is solved. You also get hint «coins» for checking in or following on social media before you go into the room (your first hint is free however), which I think is clever from a business perspective, but made me feel slightly a bit less excited as a customer. Anyway it’s not a deal breaker and I followed for a hint coin. We didn’t need any hints in our group in the end, but I would recommend others to get additional hints.
The room was the smallest I had been in, but perhaps it is also what kept everyone communicating well with each other. Most other escape rooms I had gone to (both in Orange County and in Israel) had multiple rooms to escape from which is really nice (you solve the problem in the first room, and then «escape» from the second room). We came with a Groupon, but were told that if we had paid regular price that we could use the rest of our time to try out the second room (incentive for non-​Grouponers out there). We were able to escape from the Library room, using zero hints, with a whole 10 minutes to spare… so I guess it was too easy for our group? (I say «easy» but also admit that if other people in our group hadn’t figured out some clues, I wouldn’t have been able to get past some parts without using some hints).
Overall, the room is great. It uses very clever technology and I can see it continually improving over time because the owner is very devoted to his business and customers and happy to hear feedback and ideas. I gave it three stars only because the last two puzzles take a while to actually accomplish (AFTER solving them) and only require two people per puzzle, so everyone else is just sitting around for long periods of time unable to do much or to help. Perhaps if there was something else for them to work on (if the group is larger than two or three people) while the required two people complete the tasks, it would ease the pencil tapping and pacing. OR to make the last task something that everyone could work on. But I guess this only applies to people who finish the room with too much time to spare lol.
Thumbs up! Thanks for a great time with great people!

This is a really cool place. I did many escape games like basement, exit game, enigma, etc, but this actually have all the story line up. At first we didnt even notice that we finished the first room and thought we have failed because we can actually continue to the next room if you finish the room before your one our run out.
Tips for success, get every single penny as you can and use it wisely.

I’ve done escape rooms before and having decided that I wasn’t a fan, never sought them out again. I came here unexpectedly when my date booked this. Looking at the exterior, I figured it’d be another one of those janky escape rooms. Even throughout the informational session, which had lots of confusing grammar and questionable verbal instructions, I was more and more convinced that I wanted to get this over with.
However, I stepped in and my experience changed 180 degrees. This escape room is a LOT more high tech than others, and involves more critical thinking and resourcefulness. Although we had missed the instructions where we get hints, we found out later on when we thought we had finished-​apparently we skipped through a couple of steps and had to backtrack. Nonetheless, it was all fun and when we saw how it all fit together, everything seemed THAT much cooler. Honestly, it was pretty difficult with two people so make sure you bring a couple of more hands to work with when you venture out here.
The owner/​staff was extremely helpful and friendly. He ran after us in the parking lot because he forgot to give us a copy of our photo. Thanks to his friendliness and interesting puzzles, I definitely want to come back to attempt the first mission again and hopefully get to the second room-​and escape it!
Ladies-​be prepared to lock your purses into lockers that are provided for you. No cell phones allowed inside.

Groupon $ 39 for 2, $ 75 for 4, $ 125 for 6
Room (Décor/​Production Value, Puzzle, Theme Continuity)
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People are mentioning the tech and for good reason, cause it is impressive. There are two features to the library room that are just a-​freaking-​mazing (set-​up wise). We failed pretty hard, but it was fun. We had six people in the room and as it does connect to another room, that party size makes more sense, but I would say that a group of four would be more manageable.
The explanation of the «powers» is confusing in and of itself. I honestly wished that we had the paper in there with us, because it was relevant but at the same time worded so awfully that it was hard to remember.
Extra
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— Check in for gold coins that can be cashed in for hints!
— Souvenir photo (props available)

The 7 of us did this escape room and it was so fun!
Ambiance: the Library room is set in «Ancient China», the props and room were very decorated to theme. The puzzles were also to theme except for one gadget that clearly didn’t belong in ancient china lol
Puzzles: ⁶⁄₁₀ difficulty. This room has a lot of really cool puzzles and creative implementation. It’s more on the «techy» side with special effects which lends well to the atmosphere. It’s a great break from the standard lock and key escape rooms
Service: the host was really friendly and you can tell he enjoyed his job!
Tip: if you beat the library you can get continue on to the second room which is awesome! We beat the first room with 15 min to spare so we were able to explore The Alley. I can’t wait to come back and beat that one too! :)
Tips:
–1 free hint + more hints if you tag them on social media. Get those free hints! Especially if you are trying to play all three rooms.
–it’s located upstairs. Go up the stairs near Hawaiian BBQ
–no personal items allowed but they have a locker
–the rooms are kind of small so 5 – 6 ppl would be the perfect size

I found LXI on Groupon, so I decided to try it out! The only other escape room I did was The Trap Room at Exodus in Anaheim, so I did not have very high expectations for this escape room. I was so wrong! The Library Room at LXI is more complicated than The Trap Room at Exodus. The Trap Room puzzles were lock-​and-​key type of simple. The Library Room is on a whole other level! Definitely bring more than a group of two. Their success rate is about 85% apparently, including using two hints.
Making the reservation was easy — I called about two weeks in advance. Getting a weekday is easy, but getting a weekend might be difficult. The debrief guy is really nice. I guess they’ve only been around for 5 – 6 months, but I have a good feeling they will do better than other escape rooms in the area. They’re constantly trying to improve their stuff! Getting here physically was really easy. It’s down the street from the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. Find parking in front of Plato’s Closet, go up the stairs on the right, and it’s the first office building at the top. They don’t actually have a sign for their own business, which they could probably use. There are a bunch of Chinese signs on the windows if you really can’t find it.
LXI has three rooms, but you have to pass each one individually in order to move on. With the Groupon, you only have the hour to complete the first room, the Library. Without the Groupon, you are able to move to the other rooms if you finish with time left. I think the guy said we can get up to five free hints, but we entered the room with only two: one was given and one for tagging three people on social media (FB, Twitter, etc). My partner and I used both clues. Without them, I don’t think I could have gotten them on my own. Pay attention during the debrief :)
Notes: They do not allow personal items in the rooms, but they have lockers for your purses/​backpacks. There’s a restroom in the back. After you finish your hour, they print out two pictures: one for you and one for their wall!
I’d recommend this escape room!

I got to try room #1 on a whim with my younger cousin and we both enjoyed our experience immensely. It was so much better than our experience with Exodus in Anaheim. The reason being was that we were able to experience the room adventure with just us two alone which was great, but also the technology behind the puzzles was so innovative and had us both so impressed. We thought the story was very well planned out and because it was a single theme of an ancient Chinese backdrop, it truly made for a wonderful role-​playing atmosphere. Although it was funny the kind of tools you had to work with, it made attacking the puzzles so inventive and astounding. I truly recommend this adventure for any room adventurist seasoned or new.
After trying room one, we were anxious to do the rest but weren’t able to get in a booking as they were filled for the day. My poor cousin had to leave for Canada the next day so I’d highly recommend you try to book the entire 3 rooms if you can so you can see the story through.
Our host was very kind and patient with us so we really appreciated his great attitude and enthusiasm. He even gave us a parting souvenir photo to remember our special visit. Can’t wait to conquer the rest and hope they open more adventures soon after!

The Dynasty is 3 rooms, but actually one story… so start with #1. It’s really great!!!
The staff is awesome. The rooms (we saw 2) are beautifully decorated. The story is well done and the puzzles fit into it. Listen up at the briefing and remember the info.
This company really uses creative and unique puzzles. You get immersed in the story and become characters in it. It was really different than the escape games we’ve played before both in the way we had to think to solve puzzles and the theme. They use technology in really fun ways.
I recommend getting a group together and going.