A night out built for a group
Most things to do with friends in Mississauga split the group up: a table where half the conversation is lost, a screen everyone faces, a queue for one lane. Cube Challenges puts the group on the same side. A team of two to six takes on thirty challenge rooms, shares one score, and watches that score move on a live leaderboard for the whole session.
Every player wears an RFID wristband. You scan into a room together, choose one of three difficulty levels at the door, and the room unlocks. Clear it and the points go on the team's total. Miss it, and you can scan back in and go again. You choose the order, so the group never waits for anything.
Two to six is a team. Bigger groups race each other.
Six is the team limit, and it is deliberate: every player has a job in every room. Seven or more friends split into teams, and the leaderboard does the rest. Two teams of four from the same friend group tend to get more competitive with each other than they ever would with strangers, and the rematch usually gets booked before anyone has left the building.
Inside a team the score is shared, so there is no weakest link to carry. The friend who hates heights takes the Brain rooms. The one who cannot sit still takes the climbing. Every level cleared counts the same towards one number.
Rooms worth arguing over
There are thirty rooms across three categories. The ones groups of friends go back to:
- Laser Maze: a web of beams to get through without tripping the alarm. Agility and nerve.
- Speed Barrels: a flat-out run. One person's pride, the rest of the team's entertainment.
- Bomb Squad: a calculation under time pressure, and a wrong one blows up the building.
- Crazy Circuit: the steady-hand wire game at room scale. Carry the ring from start to finish without losing all your lives.
- Buzzer Beater: two hoops, a clock, and as many baskets as you can score.
- Lights On: perception and reaction, hitting the lights as they come on.
- Hangry Monkey: a jump pad in front of a screen, dodging barrels while filling a basket with fruit.
Every room has three difficulty levels, and clearing a harder one scores more. A group that knows the floor spends its second visit replaying rooms a level up.
Timing the night
Friday and Saturday sessions run until midnight, so the usual shape is dinner first and the session after, or the session first and the post-mortem over dinner. Monday to Thursday runs 4pm to 10pm, Saturday from 10am, Sunday 10am to 10pm. There is no bar and no food service during a regular session, which is worth knowing before you plan the evening around it.
Sixty minutes is a solid first visit. Ninety minutes gives a competitive group the time to go back to the rooms it liked and push the difficulty up, and the price is the same every day of the week: $32.99 per person for 60 minutes, $38.99 for 90.
Birthdays, bachelor and bachelorette parties
For a celebration, book a private event rather than a regular session: an hour of play, then your own party area with a host to run it. Bring your own food and cake, or ask about catering when you request a quote. Earlier opening times can be arranged for groups. See events and parties, or go straight to request a quote.
Coming from Oakville, Brampton, Milton or Etobicoke
Cube Challenges is at 3185 Unity Dr, Unit 1, in west Mississauga, which puts it within reach of a friend group spread across Oakville and Milton to the west, Brampton to the north and Etobicoke to the east. Get directions, and book a time that gives the furthest-away friend a fair chance of arriving before the session starts.
Before you go
- Wear comfortable clothes and running shoes. The Physical rooms involve climbing, balancing and moving quickly.
- Eat before or after. There is no food service during a regular session.
- Younger siblings can come: players must be 7 or older, under-13s play with an adult, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.
- Watch the briefing video once, as a group, and you will spend less time on instructions when you arrive.
Book a session by choosing a date and a time. Bookings can be rescheduled with at least 24 hours' notice; the FAQ has the full terms. Questions: (647) 361-6700.