Board 8 > So it looks like I created a successful Escape Room.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I wanted to see if I could create and Escape Room that people could try out with our library. Trying to figure of riddles and puzzles that fall right in between hard and easy was actually quite challenging. There goal is to ultimately find these 4 digits that they then text to a number and that is when they have *Escaped*. Due to being a government entity we can't actually lock them in there.

They have found 2 of the 4 digits in about 36 minutes so far which is just around the pace I was hoping for. Been planning this shit for the past 3 months and it's good to see it come together.

Anyone here ever do one of those paid for Escape Rooms?
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I've done a couple, I quite enjoy them. Can't imagine making one though, like you said getting the in-between of easy and hard would stump me for awhile.
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Makes me wonder how video game designers do it
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I've done one before and it was awesome.

But yeah, couldn't imagine making one.
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I did one in December and it was cool
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I did one a while ago, and what caught me off guard was the sheer amount of stuff that wasn't relevant to the puzzles. It wasn't that easy to tell what you needed to pay attention to. Pretty fun overall though.
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that's awesome
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I've done a couple and they are fun, but you need at least 2 competent people to try and finish. Trying to carry a group and doing everything there just isnt enough time, Ive gotten close but havent beaten a room
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I did one with my friends and we barely escaped.

Also did one with @NioraptH during our meet up and we were so close gaaah.
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ScareChan posted...

but you need at least 2 competent people to try and finish.

damn, so I'd need at least two other people w/ me
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I've done three so far and am 3/3 on escaping. They're pretty fun!
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This was a group of 7. 3 of them carried the team
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There's an escape room place in the building I work in. I did it with 7 coworkers with just over a minute to spare (max time 1 hour). Was actually 3 physical rooms total and was very elaborate, involving a ball-maze puzzle, morse code, motion sensors, nerf darts, a map logic puzzle, A magnet-held fake wall, a storyline DVD, a math problem hidden on a lamphade and some number puzzle that we didn't even figure out (it was 1 of 3 parts to a puzzle and I figured out the solution without it based on the underlying story). We were actually physically locked in and started handcuffed and in "cells" but getting out of the cells and un-handcuffed were the first objectives. It was made for 4-8 so we had an advantage with 8. 3 clues were allowed throughout the process. We needed 1 in order to figure out the map puzzle (we had been looking at movement along the map to determine numbers to open a safe, but we were looking at how many spaces moved as opposed to shape of movement). At the end, the clue was a word to spell on a number pad to open the door back out. It was very challenging and fun. We didn't make it onto the leaderboard for time, but apparently the success rate for even finishing within the hour was like 8%
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One just opened nearby. I haven't gone since I don't have enough friends (let alone friends clever enough for something like this).

How much does it usually cost in the US?
Because here it's about $30 per person and it's one of the most overexpensive things ever
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Haven't done one, but there's one literally like 5 minutes from my apartment

Been meaning to get around to it
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Nanis23 posted...

How much does it usually cost in the US?
Because here it's about $30 per person and it's one of the most overexpensive things ever

This I don't know. When I did, boss paid for the entire group and I didn't ask what the cost was >_>
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Nanis23 posted...

How much does it usually cost in the US?
Because here it's about $30 per person and it's one of the most overexpensive things ever

Same here, around 25. There's a lot of hype over it right now so it makes sense.

I've done a few already, don't really remember too many details but I enjoyed them. It's weird because they are really made for multiple people, whereas video game escape rooms are made for 1 player. This means that lots of puzzles in an IRL room are independent and parallelizable, so you can divide up the work. I don't really like that as much as the tight semi-linear flow of virtual ones. I like being involved in every aspect of the room's puzzles and really feeling a mastery over the room. IRL rooms don't really have that.

Also, just like virtual ones, it really all depends on the design of the puzzles. If it's badly designed or flawed, you won't really have fun trying to solve it. It might feel too arbitrary, or like too much manual work for the reward. I've seen a few puzzles like that IRL.
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