A SECOND escape rooms has opened in Carlisle - just days after the first.

Total Enigma opened to the public on Sunday, in the Laser Quest building in Victoria Viaduct.

It follows the Red Herring Escape Rooms in Atlas Works, Denton Holme, which opened at the start of the month.

Total Enigma will offer three escape rooms, with one loosely based on Harry Potter, already open.

It is a room for all the family, where participants are tasked with solving puzzles and making potions, as well as trying to escape the room.

Owner and director of the rooms, Laura Waters, 37, said: "The children get to make a potion and cast spells, making their own slime, which is a potion.

"It gives parents time to themselves, away from the kids and they can do the adult escape rooms at the same time."

Total Enigma also offer parents the chance to take part in the escape rooms while their children play in the Laser Quest area of the site.

Laser Quest will be discounted from £15 to £5, when any adult is using the escape rooms.

Laura explained where the idea for the escape rooms came from, she said: "I have been planning the escape rooms since this time last year, just before my friend's wedding.

"I organised for us to do an escape room and I thought it was really good. I looked to see and Carlisle didn't have one, so I thought there is a niche there."

Open seven days a week, there are three rooms planned in total. The magic chamber will be joined by the asylum, which opens on November 1 and a third chamber will be added in January based on Doctor Who.