Locked Circuit has been on the Latchwork Quests sheet since the Sydney venue opened in April 2019. A host meets the party at reception, checks the player count against the booking card, and walks everyone into a briefing cubicle before the locks open. We cover room themes, the session ticket, how to ask for a hint note on mail, and what happens when the sixty-minute clock ends. Two to six players is the range we will actually seat. Short age notes sit on the wall beside the desk, not in a footnote. Named holds stay until Friday if you write before Thursday. Evening hours need an earlier confirmation so the reset bay is free. Team Briefings and Night Shift Quests sit on different clocks. We do not swap you into Private Bookings unless you ask, and we do not claim a briefing will finish every clue path for you.

Think of the briefing as a labelled start rather than a mystery speech. Count the players on the card, read the difficulty line, and check whether a room remark is already on the board before you sit down. If a hint tray is down, the rest of the room still runs; we simply tell you how to knock on the door or wait for the next reset. That is why this venue does not guess. We keep rumour off the card, and we do not sell a downloadable catalogue from this page. A party that arrives late still gets the same clue line; we do not compress it to save the clock. We are a quest venue, not a mobile app store.

Two to six players, briefed, sometimes held under a name. A party can leave the cubicle without rewriting the rest of the venue.

Group hours still matter because the same corridor staffs Team Briefings and Night Shift Quests on overlapping clocks. A Locked Circuit briefing that helps a birthday group will not rescue a two-room party hold you asked for on the morning of the visit. Weekday sessions still start from nine; Saturday still keeps a short extra slot at nine when a room can be reset in time. Later, around May, Gift Passes opens beside the standing diaries. That seasonal tray sits next to Locked Circuit; it does not replace it. Venue notes only. We never claim a mail tray plus a session ticket is a guaranteed finish for every guest. Write three working days ahead if you need several rooms for the same hour.

What we write on the briefing card

For each session we log the player count, the hour, whether a room note is on the board, and which hint channel the host will use. Parties send a name and a date, not a wishlist of puzzles we do not run. If a Saturday extra slot is already taken, we compare the remaining weekday hours so you can see what still sits on the board. Training a new host and briefing Locked Circuit are separate jobs; mixing the two in one sentence is how slots go wrong. Latchwork Quests will say “not this hour” when the room is already held. We also note extra Saturday slots only when the reset actually fits, not as decoration. Family Sessions for four still uses its own calm card; it does not borrow Locked Circuit’s quest script.

How we check a party before the door

After briefing we check mail trays, walk the clue line, then set the named party on the door card in the corridor. We watch whether the count still matches the booking and whether a late arrival silently dropped a player. Family Sessions, Private Bookings, and the seasonal Gift Passes are other notes; they are not Locked Circuit notes, but they change how busy the corridor is when you arrive. Seasonal vouchers, weekday group hours, and Saturday extra slots belong in a different file, not in this briefing ledger. Tuesday mornings stay quieter so props can be counted without a queue at reception.

Write the book page if a door card on your session disagrees with a note we quoted. We will correct the page when the venue changes a rule. This site is a shop notes page; the venue still sells the hours it can actually staff. Latchwork Quests remains an independent quest venue at Suite 1, Level 10, 428 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.