What the hell is this? Is this like a LARP amusement park chain? There’s one near where I live…
Looks like it’s just themed puzzle escape rooms.
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/20/450239655/escape-rooms-challenge-players-to-solve-puzzles-to-get-out
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“I’ve never expected that I’m going to do something like this,” said Natalie Lapidus, owner of Maze Rooms — and creator of the castle room. “Because I am also like a manager. I have a degree in business administration.”
Maze Rooms has six rooms in three locations in Los Angeles and a franchise in Austin.
That’s nothing compared to Moscow where there are scores of rooms. Lapidus and her husband emigrated from there a little over a year ago. At 26, Lapidus is living a geeky version of the American Dream.[/quote]
What’s a puzzle escape room? That’s a thing?
Yup. I have an old high school friend who works at one in Buffalo. Lemme know if you have any questions!
Oh yeah. Pretty popular for a couple of years now. Businesses use them for team-building exercises, and regular folks just do them for fun. It’s like murder mystery dinners.
You go into a room with a group and you have to do a sequence of puzzles to get out. Like solve the chess puzzle to open a secret door with a key, use the key in a sliding puzzle box to free a code, decipher the code to find the correct book on the shelf to etc, etc, until you can open the door and get out. Sometimes the rooms have actors in costume to guide you or present riddles in character.
A whole world of nope, if you ask me.
They are fun. Avoid randoms if you can.
there’s actually another escape room thread somewhere in Qt3 I can’t find now. IIRC someone in there made recommendations for some LA-region escape rooms saying they had really good sets.
There’s several in Orange County as well. I know the designer on Diablo 3 is a huge fan and has even designed his own for public play.