A New Kind of Adventure
Immersive story-driven adventures that blend the thrill of an Amazing Race with the intrigue of escape room challenges. Coming to Sydney.
Get InvolvedThe Experience
We take the best of Amazing Races and fuse them with escape room mechanics, narrative storytelling, and digital puzzles to create something entirely new.
Navigate real streets, landmarks, and hidden corners of Sydney. Every location is a chapter in a larger story waiting to unfold.
Decode ciphers, solve logic puzzles, and crack physical mechanisms — all woven into a cinematic narrative that drives you forward.
Blending digital clues, augmented interactions, and real-world artifacts into a seamless experience that feels like stepping into a film.
Every race is wrapped in a rich narrative. You're not just solving puzzles — you're uncovering a mystery, following a trail, and becoming part of the story.
Designed for real interaction. No screens between you and your team. Collaborate, debate, laugh, and discover together in the real world.
Our Vision
Traditional Amazing Races are fun — but they often feel like a series of disconnected tasks. Traditional escape rooms are clever — but you're locked in one room.
Lumen sits at the intersection. We design experiences where the entire city becomes your escape room. Where every checkpoint isn't just a task — it's a plot point. Where the puzzles aren't arbitrary — they serve the story.
We believe the best experiences are the ones that make you feel something. Not just challenged, but genuinely moved. Surprised. Connected to the people beside you.
That's what we're building. Cinematic, immersive, story-driven adventures designed for people who want more than a scavenger hunt.
About Us
Founder & Experience Designer
By day I work in technology consulting. I solve messy problems, design systems, and generally try to make complicated things feel simple. It's satisfying work, but it's not the thing that lights me up.
What lights me up is watching people have a great time together. I have over 100 board games in my collection — not because I'm a hoarder, but because I think there's something genuinely special about sitting around a table with people you like, trying to outsmart each other, making terrible decisions, and losing it laughing when someone's "genius strategy" falls apart on turn two.
I also spent a few years doing CSE Revue at UNSW — basically a live comedy show where you write sketches, act, sing, and dance in front of a few hundred people. It's chaotic and exhausting and I loved every second of it. It taught me how to tell a story, how to build tension, and how to land a moment so it actually hits.
Lumen is me trying to smash all of that together. The connection you get from board games. The narrative depth of a good escape room. The scale and energy of racing across a city. I want to build experiences that feel like you've stepped into a story — where the puzzles serve the plot and the whole thing builds to something that genuinely surprises you.
I'm not interested in designing something that's just "fun." I want people to walk away thinking "what just happened to me" — in the best possible way.
Our first experience is being crafted for Sydney CBD and surrounds. Limited spots. Invitation-first.
Stay tuned for launch details.
Get In Touch
Whether you want to experience our first Sydney adventure, partner with us, or just say hello — reach out to Andrew directly.