Your mission, as you venture through it, is to collect as many crystals as you can, by completing a series of physical, mental, skill and ‘mystery’ challenges scattered across the four classic zones (Aztec, Futuristic, Industrial and Medieval). You’ll each don matching satin bomber jackets, and mentally prepare yourself for…įor reasons unknown, you and your teammates find yourselves in the Crystal Maze.
Teams are made up of eight players and you can sign up as a full team or, if you can’t assemble a large enough fellowship, as part of a team with other incomplete questers (like a sort of puzzle-based Tinder). Today there’s live Crystal Mazes in both London and Manchester, and the new West End London venue has a whopping 32 games, over multiple floors, offering the closest experience to the original TV show any fan could hope for. Well, not only did they get the dough, they got almost enough to buy genuine crystals – and so the project was born. In 1990, on television sets across the country, Richard O’Brien, in a fur coat and skinny trousers, broke from his incessant harmonica playing to utter the immortal line: “Will you start the fans please!”Īnd in 2015, fans of a different kind started up as crowdfunding was launched to bring the gameshow back as an immersive experience.