Escape rooms can be an exciting and fun way to disappear from reality for an hour and focus on solving a series of puzzles and riddles. And while you might believe that what happens in an escape room stays in an escape room, that’s not really the case. Because employees are watching you through cameras the entire time. Redditors have recently been sharing the funniest and most embarrassing escape room fails they’ve witnessed, so we’ve gathered some of their tales down below. Keep reading to find conversations with Gord and Liz of Review the Room and David Spira of Room Escape Artist, and be sure to upvote the memories that you think people are hoping to escape from!
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“We were introduced to escape rooms by a friend of ours back in 2015,” Gord and Liz said. “At first, we weren’t hooked, and it was a few months before we played another. We then started playing more and more, and it’s been a slippery slope ever since (just this last weekend, we played our 500th game).”
“It sounds cliché, but we love the ‘escape’ of it all,” the bloggers shared. “For that 60 mins (or more or less) we are on a mission, and all our focus is on that. Everything that’s going on in the outside world just fades away, and we get to escape reality for just a little while.”
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“Escape rooms are interesting as what one person loves, another may hate (and vice-versa),” the experts continued. “We generally find a room less exciting if it is just a bland room full of padlocks, no narrative, and very minimal decoration. I’m not saying padlocks are bad, they’ve just got to be used in the right way.”
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“Saying that, escape rooms do use ‘success rate’ but this can be more of a guide to help new players understand the difficulty level of a game (and should be taken with a pinch of salt),” Gord and Liz added.
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“When you’ve decided to do an escape room, have a think about what theme may interest you,” Gord and Liz suggest. “Always wanted to rob a bank, raid a temple, stop AI taking over the world, or perhaps just break into an office? Whatever theme interests you, there is almost certainly an escape room that will match.”
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“There’s often debates in the escape room community if ‘escape room’ is even a correct term for these experiences,” they added. “Puzzle rooms, Adventure rooms, or even Immersive experiences could be a better name for them. Whatever you call them, give one a try, and lose yourself in a different reality.”
If you’d like to hear more about Gord and Liz’s experiences or get some recommendations for great escape rooms in the UK, be sure to visit Review the Room!
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“Back then, I loved the puzzles and the challenge. Today, I love some of the absolutely insane games that high-end escape room creators make,” he continued. “If you’ve never played a top escape room, you can’t comprehend what these amazing people produce. I also truly love the escape room player community. It’s a wonderful group of people.”
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However, David says there are plenty of things that can kill the good time in an escape room. “Poor customer service will ruin just about anything (escape room or otherwise). The common sources of bad feels in mediocre escape rooms are broken and unmaintained props, bad puzzle design, and while it is possible to make a great escape room on a budget… the overwhelming majority of cheaply built games are pretty lame,” he told Bored Panda.
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Even David has failed a few himself. “I think my worst failure was just my wife Lisa and I playing a game designed for 8-10 people. We just didn’t have enough people to do all the puzzles,” he added.
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“Also, like all entertainment, all escape rooms are not created equal. The best ones can be epic adventures where you and your teammates are the heroes, or intimate emotional stories where you connect with characters,” he added. “Do your research and find a recommended game with a theme or story that excites you. The recommendations guides at Room Escape Artist are a great place to start.”
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“We put a lot of love into each episode and have had some amazing guests including Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens), Neil Patrick Harris (Box One), AJ Jacobs (best selling author). You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.”
And if you’d like to learn more about David or find a great room to escape from yourself, be sure to visit Room Escape Artist!
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