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Escape the Room
pingpongsam:
The live action game. These seem to be really catching on in my area. We finally played one last night. It was way more fun than I anticipated. Ours involved crawling through tunnels and a free roaming zombie that if you were touched by it you were out of the game.
We got out in 53 minutes and all 6 of us survived. It was super intense at the end evading the zombie. I definitely tended to over complicate the puzzles.
10/10 would do again. The local place is on their 3rd scenario and reworks the room and puzzles every 3 months or so.
gkrieg13:
--- Quote from: pingpongsam on February 12, 2017, 12:50:42 pm ---The live action game. These seem to be really catching on in my area. We finally played one last night. It was way more fun than I anticipated. Ours involved crawling through tunnels and a free roaming zombie that if you were touched by it you were out of the game.
We got out in 53 minutes and all 6 of us survived. It was super intense at the end evading the zombie. I definitely tended to over complicate the puzzles.
10/10 would do again. The local place is on their 3rd scenario and reworks the room and puzzles every 3 months or so.
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We've done quite a few of the ones in my area. None of them are zombie themed and I have liked the ones the most that have some dexterity challenges in them as well as the mental puzzles
Tables:
I did one near where I live. It was a purely puzzle based one about stealing a rich guy's diamond from his private museum. My team apparently set the record for it, escaping with 17:10 left on the clock - although the room had only been open for about half a year.
It was a great experience. We all enjoyed it, especially due to the host being very charismatic and thematic, while knowing his audience well. I want to try a few more of them at some point.
pingpongsam:
I was overly impressed with the game design. We brought a crowd of 6. They set the mood straight off by being in costume and character from the very beginning.
They took 2 of our crowd in first and they had a whole separate experience where they were handcuffed together and to a chain link fence with the zombie right outside where they could see it. The rest of us were in a more or less traditional escape room that eventually led to where the others were. In about the time it took us to get to them they had freed themselves.
There was a creepy soundtrack, a constantly screeching and banging zombie, and no overhead lights. The only lighting were a couple LED candles we had to find and the occasional flexible glow stick attached to keys. The handcuffed guys were in pitch black until they met up with the rest of us at about 20 Minutes in.
I think I would excel at the traditional Japanese style of escape room whereas this format really amped up the heart rate (they had the heat at 76F to contribute to this effect) and everyone reported losing thinking faculty at different points due to the set and setting.
pingpongsam:
As for dexterity, we had a magnetic puzzle that required you to manipulate wooden maze pieces to navigate a magnet out from under the clear plastic cover. The magnetic had a combination on the underside of it. Of course the magnet to operate the puzzle was in a lockbox itself. The final exit key was on a ring attached to a post in a rather large and arduous maze. The post had to be worked around to a place where it could be extracted all the while a free roaming zombie is after you. The zombie isn't slow and shuffling either, it's a fast running, dexterous human being.
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