I kinda don't think we can blame him It's a game where the whole point is finding secrets and solving puzzles; any non puzzle elements should be ironclad.
@@azazellon: Escape rooms, on the other hand, have some restrictions. You can't expect people to bring their own tools because then some people would have an advantage over others and the process shouldn't involve the risk of hurting anyone or damaging stuff or making other sorts of messes that are a nuisance to the staff.
In high school I did a haunted cornfield maze with people in costumes put there to jumpscare us. This one kid in the group was staring the employees down and trying so hard to act tough and talk shit on these random strangers in halloween costumes. So embarrassing.
@@nicoleb695 i wouldn't blame them, they probably thought it wasn't real, even though its not something you should say in public anyway, really who should be ridiculed is those who threw stuff at her or hit her, why would you ever do that anyways, even if it wasnt a person?!?!
My friend’s sister did an escape room with a friend where they were locked in separate cages. They both had the other’s code to get out of the cages but they just kept screaming and lost
So my colleague from work is a fan of escape rooms. He and his friends are in one of those and they are meant to solve some puzzles to continue. However they managed to get a window to open and decided that this is how they were meant to escape. One descend from first floor window later and the whole group is knocking on the door to the operator room. According to my colleague operator's face was priceless. Also this room did install bars in windows since then.
Once I was doing an escape room with my family and some friends, it was themed to where you were wrongly convicted of murder and locked in the police station, and we had to escape within an hour or we get executed with the electric chair. We had gotten through a bunch of elaborate puzzles, and all that was needed to do was just to solve one more puzzle and get through the door. We saw that next to the door was an ad for a lawyer "just because you did it doesn't mean you're guilty" with a phone number and his name. There was a prop dial up phone on a bench behind us. With a minute left, we were furiously dialing the lawyer, thinking that contacting him in the game would save us. The game ended and we lost. Turns out the phone could be dismantled and there was a key inside.
"People act dumb in escape rooms." No, people act dumb around Actors in general. Actors are NOT puppets or dolls or playthings. I've played Hagrid during Harry Potter shows and had people grope me because for some reason they think I'll not mind? Seriously, don't fucking do that. That poor zombie-woman sounds like she went through Hell. Fuck that.
@@manicalman597 On the one hand, I'm not gonna get up you over what is obviously a joke. Hagrid is best boy. On the other hand - just in case people reading this didn't understand that it's a joke; DO NOT assume that the manner someone is dressed is an excuse to grope them. It isn't. Ever.
I did an escape room once. There was a blackboard that had the different countries of South America but scrambled. Example: ibmuloca (Columbia etc) and we had to find the one that was missing. It was pretty difficult because we didn't know off hand many south American countries either, so this was all jumbled BS for a while. I forget the relevance of it, but that's beside the point. There was a globe in the corner of the room we could use for this, a big and obvious one. But did we? no. I started singing the Animaniacs nations of the world song until we discovered that Brazil was the only country not listed. We did not get out, but we were close. The person giving us hints comes in after and is laughing her ass off. we ask her why. she points to the globe and says "I was gonna tell you through the hint screen that was there, but I really wanted to hear you finish the song. Edit: we knew what country was missing once we unscrambled everything, just to clarify. The hard part was knowing what to unscramble to read a certain county. If we didn't have a list of countries, we didn't know if the spelling was right or if what we were spelling was even a real nation and it would just look like jumbled BS.
I'm sorry back up a second, the country that was left out was Brazil and you had to go through a list (song or otherwise) to notice that was the one ?!? Did nobody in the group actually know any countries in South America, it's not like Brazil is a little one you might not have heard of? (I mean, respect for knowing the whole of that song, but 0/10 for actual geography!)
I once did an underwater themed escape room with my parents and a couple of their friends. My brother and I weren't allowed to touch anything, or say anything, and if we did we would get in trouble. So, halfway through, I was just looking at a paper that one of them had written on, and I figured out the correct answer long before they did; purely because there were two answers on it, and after they solved the first one they completely ignored that sheet of paper. Of course, I didn't say anything, and when my mom found out that I knew the answer the whole time she got mad at me for not telling her. And I'm just sitting in the car on the way home thinking, 'what the hell woman, make up your damn mind'
My mom was a control freak and really the only reason that we were even there is because she didn't want us doing "bad stuff" at home But eh, it was years ago
I went once and some guy took out a pocket knife and sawed some of the locks off Edit: For those that want to know, a lot of the locks were some of those skinny ones with the small key than can be opened in two seconds
@@kenipii5591 They should also charge him for ruining the experience for everyone else (aka give everyone refund money). Who the fuck goes to an escape room just to saw your way out that literally makes no sense. It's like buying the largest ice cream and then just eating a few bites and throwing out the rest.
Neroos ALT Everyone has different triggers, you shouldn’t say that just because they happened to have a panic attack while playing a game that they shouldn’t play the game
Sorry to hear about the panic attack, but the truth is that the vast majority of panic attacks resolve in one of 2 ways. You calm down your breathing and take back a little control, or you breath to fast, pass out and wake up with a headache. That's it. The real problem comes in when the "panic attack" is not really a panic attack, but a true medical emergency that is causing a panic reaction, example: Person is actually having an arrhythmia causing rapid heart rate and minor dizziness, that causes the patient to become anxious, which increases the heart rate, which in turn exacerbates the underlying problem, which leads to more anxiety and so on. That is why, as a medic, I have to calm you down so i can then determine what is actually going on. (I can probably still do it during your panic reaction, but it complicates things). Moral of the story, panic attacks are no reason to panic.
When I did a escape room with my friends we had to find 5 rings and the finally ring was on a sword we had to flip switches in a specific order to unlock the sword. My stupid friend just flipped all the switches really fast and unlocked the final ring and pulled the sword out. The employee went on the speaker and said wtf did you just do unlocking the last puzzle without solving any of the other puzzles.
Koritsi Alogo so there are 6 switch’s, if you flip one in the wrong order you have to flip all of them back to start and try again, my friend crouched down and put his hand on all the switches and switched them all really really fast and I don’t know how it worked but it did.
With my friends we started in a cell with handcuffs linked to a bench. The lady guiding us there (probably too focused in her roleplay) didn't mention the handcuffs, said 3 2 1 go and left. First friend handcuffs himself with one hand. Second friend has a doubt and locks both of his hands. I then handcuff both of my hands too with the third friend shortly followed by friend one. Result, all 4 of us completely stuck with both hands on the bench and softlocked out of the scenario. After 45min the lady checked the camera and saw us awkwardly crouched trying to grab the key with our feet...
My coworker also runs an escape room business, this is one example he told me but it was his fault: The group starts off the room by having to split into 2 rooms so half was in one and the other in another room, in order to ask for hints the group got a walkie talkie and who ever wanted to hold it got to hold it, so when one person got a hold of the walkie talkie they realized they needed a type of key that activated a lock to a door with pressure, so they stuck the walkie talkie antenna into the hole and opened the lock to the door
@@cnash5647 No, it just proves that the concept is so new that most "suppliers" of escape rooms have no fucking clue what they're doing, just following a trend to milk it for cash.
We were doing a Harry Potter themed room and a big magic rod was the key to the exit door. After the intro the GM forgot it next to his chair. After 30 seconds we figured it out and opened the door. They still have our 30second time in the leaderboard as a joke. After that we kept going as usual just ignoring the key until the end
i dont understand why would someone cheat in escape room. like what? what is the purpose of going there at first place if you dont even try to solve it leggit.
Some escape rooms will keep track of people who make it in record time and put your picture on the wall.. Maybe thats their goal? So they can brag? Lol
I went to an escape room in February for my birthday. I am thirteen and older than all of my friends. I'm the only teen here and we were two puzzles away from escaping. We got like an hour. I don't get scared easily from things that don't trigger my anxiety, but there was a book that I touched and it said, "I hear your heartbeat." I said, "Holy crap! What the frick?!?!?"
I went to an escape room themed like a kitchen. I looked on the little dinner table and saw two objects with letters on them. "Hey! These say the letters "S" and "P" on them!" I said to my group. "For salt and pepper?" one of them replied. "I THINK I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT."
My friends and I did an escape room for a friend’s birthday. We get to the third room and it has a bed in it. The whole time everyone’s been yelling at each other (not arguing just... yelling ._.) I throw them the stuff I found under the bed sheets and hop on the bed and just lay there. Every time the employees are typing something on the TV we hear a ding so whenever we hear the ding everyone screams and runs over. TV- _Tell your sleeping friend to look in the pillow case_ Everyone runs over to me and lifts my head up, takes the pillow, and drops my head down. They find another clue and all scream at me for not checking the pillow and I just laugh. Also, in the first room, we spent half the game trying to get out of there. The TV keeps showing us clues and stuff. And we start yelling at Oscar (the guy who walked us in the room) and the TV says, “This is Toby, Oscar left.” And we start yelling at Toby. Just incoherent yelling and yelling Toby’s name. When we finally open the door to the second room, the TV pulls up that chicken Spongebob meme and we all start laUGHING. And then I ask them if they can pull up Maze Runner memes just because I wanted to see pictures of The Maze Runner ._. They didn’t so that was disappointing. When we got out, all our voices were hoarse and my friend’s parents were laUGHING. They said that they were watching us on an iPad and even though there was no audio on the iPad, they could hear us scrEAMING at Oscar and Toby XD
My friends and I were doing an escape room, and like the good friends who have known each other for 6 years, we’re just wasting time messing around and cracking jokes. Suddenly my friend goes “shh, do you guys hear that?” We all three go silent.. *in the background laughing* Turns out my mom was watching us XD
in an escape room i went to there was a secret door behind a trophy case. it had a magnetic lock that was activated by moving the trophies in a pattern. i figured out the pattern and got the door open. but i accidentally closed the door behind me and half of my group within the last 10 minutes. when the door closed the trophies shifted so we were locked in and stuck for the last 10 mins because the people outside of the door didn’t know the pattern. yeah… we failed the room
What did the trophies look like? I did a very similar room. For me they were two eggs, a metal elephant, and I forget the rest. We had to order them to represent the cycle of life.
Not an employee, don't know anyone even remotely associated with an escape room in any way shape or form, not a human, not from earth, not a multicellular organism
Played an escape room once with some friends. It was fun, but one of our group kept relentlessly asking the employee for clues. We finished with 30 minutes to spare. I would have preferred to have just figure it out.
So I was running an escape room and we had these tiny locks with tiny keys. So cute right? ...you’d be surprised by the amount of people who broke/almost broke the key by shoving it into the wrong lock.
We were supposed to find an L-shaped iron and use it to get a key out of a tube. Instead, we got a false plant (part of the room's decoration) and used it as one, without knowing that there was any stick in the first place.
Obligatory not an employee. My friends and I did a Wild West themed escape room. The goal was to escape the sheriff’s office before he got back. This was my first escape room (everyone else’s second but they started with a challenging one and didn’t get a single clue right) so we made a couple bad mistakes. We were split up into separate jail cells. There was a rope hanging between the cells with a key on it and a lock that stopped it from moving. You were supposed to use brooms to get the key to the cell I was in, but my friend just reached over and pulled it to them. The ring that held it in place stopped it so it was now out of everyone’s reach and stuck. The gm had to come undo it for us. She said that was the most common mistake. Towards the end of the room, there was a circular wooden puzzle. There were lines, numbers, and addition and subtraction symbols. The goal was to line the pieces up using the lines and the wood grain so that it would tell you the order of the numbers and whether to add or subtract them. The final answer was the final combination. I read the last number upside down to my friend. He ended up seeing the error tho. Ok so now we have the code. There’s a wooden crate in a closet. I got to it and noticed that the plank to the right could slide out. I pull it out but don’t realize that all the other planks could slide to the right then slide out. In the box was the last lock where that code goes. My friend puts in the code with one single-plank wide gap to work with. We get the sheriff’s badge which is the key to the door. By this time, the time was up, but the GM let us finish. So after I realized that the other planks can slide out, I take them all out and see that the final clue was a picture in the crate of where to put the badge. She gave the win to us with one second bc we were still able to finish the room. I still felt happy that it was my first escape room and the GM didn’t have to come in and tell us the remaining clues that we missed afterwards.
Update: Our second escape room went much better. We did one of the 13th gate escape rooms (one of the not scary ones) and got out with 25 seconds, but our final time was like 65 something. I’ll explain why, but I won’t talk abt the actual escape room since I named the company this time. We had an iPad which was our timer. It could also be used to scan QR codes around the room that were hints. We still got clues from the GM on if we were going in the right direction or not. The QR hints were more helpful, but they added 3 minutes each on to the final time. You could also just get the answer after reading the clue, but that added 5 minutes to the final time. We scanned two clues, but no answers. One was useless bc we did the correct thing. It’s just it didn’t work at first so we thought we were wrong. But we tried again and it worked. I’m proud bc I had an mvp moment. The group was abt to scan the clue. I figure out what to do at the last second and I’m like “WAIT” just in time. They hadn’t scanned the clue yet so I tell them what to grab to figure out the code that we needed and it worked.
@SuperSmashBoiz I had an experience kinda like that. This was my first(and only) escape room, and it was titanic themed. You had to find the key to the last life boat before the ship sank. My friends and I kept getting confused tho, but we were the last group of the day and the ppl working there were really nice, so they kept resetting our clock by a few mins before it ran out. Near the end I turn to my friends and go “you think there was someone on the titanic that just so happened to have the key to the last life boat in their room and needed to solve a bunch of puzzles to get it, but they were so bad at logic they kept resetting time so they wouldn’t drown?” XD
I kinda wonder if being in a room like that causes you to think differently. The pressure of the situation can stress people out, and I think it would make sense for people to start overthinking, underthinking, conclusion-jumping, freaking out etc once in the room. On timed math tests, I always did better when I didn’t know how much time I had, and I wouldn’t be that surprised if the timer and room had a similar effect on escape-room clients.
Koritsi Alogo eh maybe some people are different. I know when I’m in a timed situation like a math test. I usually think sharp and go after the problems I know first. Then go back and work on the more long/complicated problems.
You can dial 911 in Australia and it automatically get rerouted to 000 instead. I think this is the case for alot of countries because of all the American tv shows that have poeple calling 911, alot of kids and more naive poeple end up thinking its the emergency number for their own country.
They phoned 911 and it was answered locally by emergency services. Then, still thinking it was part of the game, they talked about a murder in Japan, and realised that they were talking to the real 911. Escape room people should've thought of that.
1:19 ”sheet of *paper* “ Them: Bed??? Like I assume they were just overthinking the clue but damn if it doesn’t remind me of retail customers who refuse to read sales signs properly.
We once master a 1 hour room in around 10 Minutes, which was 24 Minutes faster then the standing record. We weren't exactly that good... We just never got around to half of the clues. The last step to get the door key was to open a cage door which was triggered by light. (You need to shine two lamps at two sensors at the same time). We used the one flashlight we already had and two of us were holding a big mirror (which was only a prop (and really heavy and around 1x1 meter with a wooden frame) . It wasn't supposed to be moved from the wall at all) Either way it worked and the baffled escape room employee who just was at the break room for a minute, stood in the open doorframe. We baffled as well (we thought in the cage were only the next clues) stood there, two people with a big ass mirror, one girl with a flashlight standing on a bench and one at the number pad, with the final paper in her hand. She (the employee) was really nice about it and just said she never thought of trying that. We put the mirror back and went for the photo. She and her colleagues let us put the warning sticker on the mirror... (they had small stickers which said things like 'Do not remove - not part of the game' and 'Just decoration' for items which where in danger of getting destroyed or hurt customers)
I went with my brother and his family to one; the puzzles were to straight forward and basic (ie: line up colors, etc...). The thing is the contents in the room were really old and fragile. My nephew ends up opening a draw on one of the cabinets and it shatters and ends up cutting him. The hanging bird cage had a lock on it, but the cage was soo weak that I just gently open it without getting the number to the lock. We did end up failing, but it was a puzzle meant for 6 people, and it was basically just 3 adults and 2 kids -- so hopefully that doesn't make us too stupid. Also, half the time, you don't know when to use force and when not to. Some puzzles you have to force something like a brick (or like the tiki torch into a hole), and other times you think is a solution but end up breaking the prop.
"The puzzles were too straight forward" "A lot of things opened when they werent supposed too" "We didnt escape" LOL how easy do you need it to be?!?!?
The only time I've ever even heard of escape rooms was in a Brooklyn Nine Nine episode that made them look really boring. I didn't realise there were all these cool themed rooms out there.
Me and some friends of our family did an escape room. I got very uncomfortable and claustrophobic so went out for a while. I went back in and helped finish it with them. Me and my brother ‘sweet talked’ the lady (who was really nice and humorous) into giving us extra time and some clues (not being rude or demanding, but funny and we were very thankful). It was fun. Extra- the room we are doing was the hardest, 0.03 success rate. Also, one of the rooms had a dead gut missing a hand and finger that we thought we would have to use. Thankfully we didn’t. But one of us had to crawl in with the dead guy for a puzzle and I though it was an actor.
Oh my god ive only gone to 1 escape room but it was for a gifted program thing for our mysteries unit. That teacher wouldnt let us do anything. On the plus side we also got to make our own in the class room and my friend Jaxon had the idea of making one where he had a disease that you had to cure or else he would die and my best friend and I said, oh well we're just not going to solve it lmao
When I was little I did an escape room that was Halloween themed, but there were no jump scares. The only thing close to a jump scare was when Dracula slowly rose from the coffin as a small funny scare. But the room operator saw me holding my stuffed animal dog and decided it was best for that not to happen. Especially when my parents had left me alone in the room because they found the next clue.
This reminds me of an escape room I did with my mom, uncle and grandmother, and all we had to do to finish the room was an action puzzle, where the clue was to "make a chain from one peg on one side of the room to the other". Logical me thought, "a chain? well, we must hold hands from one peg to another to complete the current." You know, cause the human body conducts electricity. All three of them wrote off my suggestion, even after several tries. They insisted that they had to tie random strings (Used to fix keys and other clues, mind you) to complete the currents. After several minutes of futile attempts, the screen that gave hints said, and I quote, "Why not listen to all of the group member's suggestions? They may have already had the answer for a while." That was at the literal last minute of the room. had they not said anything, we would have failed, just cause they didn't listen to my suggestion.
There was this one time when around 8 of my friends and I went into an Alcatraz-themed room, and we were split into three different prison cells, all locked with a different kind of lock. We go throughout the course of the puzzle and two cells had already been opened when we were getting close to the end. Two of my friends in the last cell kept shaking the door and begging us to open it for them, because they couldn’t for the life of them figure it out. We ended up unlocking the exit and escaping all while the third cell was still locked, so we all thought, “Whoa!! That’s so cool! They even had a hidden message about how escaping will always entail sacrificing something or someone.” We excitedly called the gamemaster from the front counter, telling him about how cool it was that the third cell was meant to stay locked. Except he didn’t respond with the same excitement, he was _confused_ instead. He said that wasn’t supposed to happen, and after the guy explained to us how the door was supposed to unlock, we figured out that we had probably unlocked the door at least three times during the entire thing, since we had done exactly what he showed us, but since they kept shaking the door, *it locked again.*
One time doing one they would put us in cells (prison theme) and you were supposed to toss a rope with a magnet to undo some latch on some.. laundry hamper stuck to wall, my dad just got the thing around the hamper and pulled the hamper off the wall anyways, skipping a step... eventually we lost because we didn't realize there were multiple consecutive rooms to it and spent lots of time in the first one, but also was our first time doing one and we were actually pretty close to the end (iirc 3 more things to figure out in the last of the rooms) But because of us not knowing we were only in first room, we used up 2/3 of our hints early on (thankfully the game masters were allowed to give free hints when they thought we were truly stuck and/or going on a tangent that would waste so much time) Also I am in Texas so by law they couldn't actually lock the door to the entrance room, so when we got out of cells, a guy in our group just opened and went "WE'RE DONE" before the hint screen dinged and said "no" and then we remembered the law and then continued XD And to stop stupid accidental breakage of things, red tape on anything that you shouldn't touch BUT they did tell us "Please do not pee in the toilets, they DO. NOT. WORK."
So uh, I got a quick 'lil Escape Room story ;w; One day, I was going on a gifted field trip to the escape room with my classmates. We arrived after a 20 minute drive. We has already pre-paid, so uh, ill just skip straight to the juicy part. When i was solving the puzzle, I suddenly had the urge to go *Pee.* I asked my gifted teacher to go because she was supervising us. She replied with "I dunno If you'll be able to come back.." Mind you, the guy that was watching from the cameras before we got in the room explained in these EXACT WORDS, "You can go to the restroom and be able to get back inside the room." So i asked my gifted teacher again, But i said it like "So, Can I go?" And she replied, "Fine, But don't blame me when you can't get back in." After i went, i came back in the room and she was looking stupid at me for the rest of the Escaping. We won the room.
My best friend's fiance owns an escape room company. She says the stupidest thing was some girl got claustrophobic and instead of just asking to be let out, she ripped the lock box from the door. She had to pay for that obviously. Honorable mention to the group that started smashing vases to see if something was inside. They just had to look down with a flashlight and if there was something to turn it over. The vases were like $2000 to replace since they were all custom made; she had to take them to court to get them to pay.
Remember once this person in my group guesses a code and so when we found the clue we literally spent about 20-30 minutes trying to find the solution to this clue. We still solved it
One time me and my siblings were going to a escape room and I would be saying right answers and my older brother EVERY SINGLE TIME would say “no it’s (incorrect answer)” we didn’t escape
I just don't understand how people don't realize that if they are destroying or damaging the room, using things they brought with them that were not in the room, or doing something the average person could not do (like lockpicking), they are probably doing something wrong
A good number of stories here just make me think of VI from league of legend, "sometime, you gotta MAKE a door."(as she slams her massive mechanical fists through concrete/metal/you)
Me and my family did a WW2 escape room. We were supposed to get locations that were taped on using the frequencies and some rigged slicer. We were hardstuck because the slicer didn't move so we fixed the radio that was broken for years.
I want to one day actually experience escape rooms. They seem fun, but it really requires competent players. Me and my friends would play and maybe only me and (friend) would be able to fifure it out. We are a group of 5, 2 are smarter than the other 3 combined.
There was a door locked with a chain with 8 locks on it, but you only needed to open 3 of the locks to pull the chain out. We wasted 15 minutes searching for the rest of the keys and codes but still got out with 10 minutes left Edit: spelling
I went to a zombie escape room once like the last story. The operator made sure to tell us not to touch the zombie unless it touched you first, and that must be why.
5:22 My best friend had a friend who’s dad was the owner of an escape room. I went over to their house, and their parents told us we were going to an escape room! All three of us (me, her, and her twin sister) were so excited because we had never been to an escape room. Turns out we were beta testing it with her friend’s dad. (Please note that I do not like their parenting and it is very different from my mom’s parenting)So we went in and we all were excited until all of the parents would just ignore us and not let us do anything. Soon we had to hurry up because we had been in there for almost an hour and a half and they had to get me home because it was past my bedtime. When I got home I told my mom about it and she said we could go together one day and I would be able to do some stuff. She still hasn’t taken me(it wasn’t too long ago), but it’s good to know that next time somebody offers me to beta test an escape room(they probably won’t) I will definitely say no.
So many of these stories confuse me. Every escape room I've ever been in has very strict policies and usually get you to deposit everything in your pockets into a locker and PROVE you have emptied them and have nothing else on you before entering. How on EARTH are people getting switchblades and purses inside? Like why would you even allow that?
In response to kids being right when the parents aren’t...I did an escape room with some of my family. The story was that we were kidnapped by an evil doctor who was going to do torturous experiments on us if we could not escape. There was one point in the escape room where we found vials meant to hold blood (we had to place them in the right order to solve a clue) but when we came to the end and we couldn’t figure out the clue, my young cousin, eight, was so sure we had to fill the vials with our own blood. Even to the point where he started to try to prick his hand with props found in the room...
My boyfriend and I did and escape room for a date and the story was that this wizard got captured by demons and you had to help him before you got captured too. The room was meant for 6+ people so we looked stupid trying to solve anything, but our favorite stupid moment was when we got to this puzzle where you have to smell the air your partner is blowing out of a box with a tool you get in a locked chest. The tool had the names of the scents it could be like lavender, cedar, rose, and a few more. Well we looked at cedar and both agreed we didn't even know what the word was because I pronounced it (se-dar). The lady watching us was probably dying of laughter because we said it wrong at least 20 times in a couple minutes. She finally gave us a hint saying "I love a walk in the woods" to where I had that realization, started laughing and yelled out "omg! Its CEDAR!" Which is pronounce (see-der) incase you didn't know Edit: sorry its kinda long for no reason
i once played an entire escape room with the lights off because i thought the lights being off was supposed to be a part of the aesthetic of the puzzle, spent the whole time with friends yelling for the tiny blacklight we had been provided with and to back away from a small lightbulb in the corner. turns out the lightswitch that we found by the door could had been used at any time and the puzzle was not meant to be done with the lights off, we finished with 9 seconds left all screaming in panic
When the "dumb parents who don't listen to their kids" one came on, I don't know why, but I almost started crying. Maybe it's because my mom doesn't really care about what I have to say. She lets me know too, that she doesn't care about how I feel or what I have to say..
I once got put in a very realistic escape room with a bunch of other people, we all had to wear orange and they had lots of people guarding us, so after 2 years I couldn't figure it out so they just let me go I guess.
5:30 I agree with the bad parents. I was doing this escape room with me, my sister, and a friend along with my mom, Aunt, and uncle. We figured out most the clues and they didn’t let us do anything, so we lost when we were really close cause they kept snatching everything out of our hands
My story: we were in the Wisconsin dells and did an escape room, it was my family and a different family. The other family did most of the work and the dad was smart as hell, well I figured out some part of it but didn’t realize there was a code on the lock type thing that folded in and out, turns out that was the last piece we needed to solve the puzzle and we lost bc of my 11 year old self
Lol I went to an escape room with my parents, grandparents, uncle, and a family friend one time. We were getting pretty far but we ran out of time. The worker came in to tell us what we messed up. He closed the door, but he said he had a key. He forgot his key outside. We were the last ones there and the only other worker there left already. He tried to break the door but it wouldn’t work. He had to get a table and put a chair on it, and he had to move the tiles in the ceiling and climb through to open the door from the other side. It’s safe to say I’ll never forget that day.
I love escape rooms I'm otw to one rn. One time they left a real nail gun in there I was playing with it and my dad was like "THATS REAL PUT IT DOWN" 🤣
I remember me and my friends were in the hardest room they had. We solved the first 2 doors and was at the last door. We literally randomly guessed the pattern to the door and unlocked the door. All 3 doors together had about 18 clues to solve. We solved about 10 and skipped the rest
Once did an escape room. Was extremely difficult and the staff more than unfriendly. But I did escape. Wait that was prison.
Just watch, this comment as well as all of its replies will be big moods.
Wait... Isn’t that school?
r/holup
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@@prim8512 but I Did 👀
"What's your superpower?"
"I only have one hand!"
"Wait that's not a superpower!"
"Oh you'd be surprised."
Nice ;)
Wait *What*
Hmm🤔
Explain i dont understand. My brain to small.
Banana God
Too*
for the guy pushed a tile and broke the wall, he just found the secret ending of the game
same with the chimney guy
I kinda don't think we can blame him
It's a game where the whole point is finding secrets and solving puzzles; any non puzzle elements should be ironclad.
Christian Klan still, if no hints whatsoever lead to a random tile in the ceiling, I’m not sure you would be poking holes
The broom closet ending is my favorite.
@@luxcircia this is the story of Stanley...
I had two lady's use the emergency exit buttons thinking that was the way to escape.. They thought they made it through in record time 😂
Happens way too often where i work! smh
In an escape room I did there was a fake emergency exit thing and I freaked out when my friend typed in the code cause I thought it real XD
Hahahaaaaaa
Ladies*
*DO NOT WASTE THE HOLY WATER!!* - Vade
I really hope that water was safe to drink
Thanks, I did not hear this at first and now it's funnier because you made it bold text hahahahaaaa
deathwingrocks 1... 2... 5!
@deathwingrocks And the number of counting shall be 3, the 3rd number
I would need it though
That first story... good grief that whole group would _DIE_ in a horror film. *_IN THE FIRST ACT!_*
Ah, so "le generic group that all get murderized before title appears" then?
Do horror movies have acts? I don’t watch a lot.
memegodjr True, i have seen such things. I just don’t know how horror genre is usually done.
Why does this sound like a jojo reference?
@@davidulep1060 yare yare daze
It seems that the moral of the video is treat it like a puzzle and dont overthink it
And don't bring tools.
To be fair, have you seen certain video game puzzles?
@@azazellon: Escape rooms, on the other hand, have some restrictions. You can't expect people to bring their own tools because then some people would have an advantage over others and the process shouldn't involve the risk of hurting anyone or damaging stuff or making other sorts of messes that are a nuisance to the staff.
My takeaway was actually something more like listen to the dungeon master and don't be a prick. Treat it as an experience and flex your mind.
@@azazellon online chess
"YO WHO CALLED THE COPS"
"WHO CALLED 9...DOUBLE 1?"
WHO CALLED NINE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN?!
proof that this guy doesn't bother checking his text to speech audios.
fcantil he just wacks it in a programme and puts it over the videos
Did they think the zombie was an animatronic? I really hope she called them out on the spot
In high school I did a haunted cornfield maze with people in costumes put there to jumpscare us. This one kid in the group was staring the employees down and trying so hard to act tough and talk shit on these random strangers in halloween costumes. So embarrassing.
Probably but it was still funny
Esp the one who said he wanted to "titty fuck" her. That's grounds for harassment. Ew.
@@nicoleb695
Really, thats what you´re focused on? She got punched in the face.
@@nicoleb695 i wouldn't blame them, they probably thought it wasn't real, even though its not something you should say in public anyway, really who should be ridiculed is those who threw stuff at her or hit her, why would you ever do that anyways, even if it wasnt a person?!?!
To which the operator replied: “what water?”
I died
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Jesus I feel so bad for that zombie girl
Hell yes
Same
I know. What's wrong with people?
she probably had to be in there for a while after too 😣
@The Happy Cajun yes, with a baseball bat
I remember that in an escape room, I saw a bag of cheezits sitting on the desk and I thought it was a prop with a key.
Employee: Oh that's my snack
Our first escape room was trying to leave the timeout chair
First
@@wellifailed392 _Last_
not last anymore
no u
My friend’s sister did an escape room with a friend where they were locked in separate cages.
They both had the other’s code to get out of the cages but they just kept screaming and lost
So my colleague from work is a fan of escape rooms. He and his friends are in one of those and they are meant to solve some puzzles to continue. However they managed to get a window to open and decided that this is how they were meant to escape. One descend from first floor window later and the whole group is knocking on the door to the operator room. According to my colleague operator's face was priceless. Also this room did install bars in windows since then.
xD
THAT'S the sort of thing i was expecting!
Haha
Once I was doing an escape room with my family and some friends, it was themed to where you were wrongly convicted of murder and locked in the police station, and we had to escape within an hour or we get executed with the electric chair. We had gotten through a bunch of elaborate puzzles, and all that was needed to do was just to solve one more puzzle and get through the door. We saw that next to the door was an ad for a lawyer "just because you did it doesn't mean you're guilty" with a phone number and his name. There was a prop dial up phone on a bench behind us. With a minute left, we were furiously dialing the lawyer, thinking that contacting him in the game would save us. The game ended and we lost. Turns out the phone could be dismantled and there was a key inside.
@Sethplays videogames no....or else they would've took down the sign if it was a real sign....
Dang that sucks.
that would have been a better ending
@@flowerrr_06 I've seen a meme with that sign
That actually sounds hard to think of... who would think to dismantle the phone
"People act dumb in escape rooms."
No, people act dumb around Actors in general. Actors are NOT puppets or dolls or playthings. I've played Hagrid during Harry Potter shows and had people grope me because for some reason they think I'll not mind? Seriously, don't fucking do that.
That poor zombie-woman sounds like she went through Hell. Fuck that.
To be fair, you did dress up as the most attractive being in the Harry Potter books
@@manicalman597 On the one hand, I'm not gonna get up you over what is obviously a joke. Hagrid is best boy.
On the other hand - just in case people reading this didn't understand that it's a joke; DO NOT assume that the manner someone is dressed is an excuse to grope them.
It isn't. Ever.
@@DelphanGruss If youre alone with the Person in a hotel room is it then ?
@@jager2754 Only if they've given express verbal consent.
If they haven't given consent, keep your grubby meathooks off them.
It's really that easy.
😂🤣
I did an escape room once. There was a blackboard that had the different countries of South America but scrambled. Example: ibmuloca (Columbia etc) and we had to find the one that was missing. It was pretty difficult because we didn't know off hand many south American countries either, so this was all jumbled BS for a while. I forget the relevance of it, but that's beside the point. There was a globe in the corner of the room we could use for this, a big and obvious one. But did we? no. I started singing the Animaniacs nations of the world song until we discovered that Brazil was the only country not listed. We did not get out, but we were close. The person giving us hints comes in after and is laughing her ass off. we ask her why. she points to the globe and says "I was gonna tell you through the hint screen that was there, but I really wanted to hear you finish the song.
Edit: we knew what country was missing once we unscrambled everything, just to clarify. The hard part was knowing what to unscramble to read a certain county. If we didn't have a list of countries, we didn't know if the spelling was right or if what we were spelling was even a real nation and it would just look like jumbled BS.
Thats hilarious.
Thank you, now I'm going to listen the whole song all over again
I'm sorry back up a second, the country that was left out was Brazil and you had to go through a list (song or otherwise) to notice that was the one ?!? Did nobody in the group actually know any countries in South America, it's not like Brazil is a little one you might not have heard of? (I mean, respect for knowing the whole of that song, but 0/10 for actual geography!)
@@matc241 listen we had 25 minutes left and we're not to keen on thinking about South American countries on a regular basis.
@@matc241 i don't know much of south america either, lol
I once did an underwater themed escape room with my parents and a couple of their friends. My brother and I weren't allowed to touch anything, or say anything, and if we did we would get in trouble.
So, halfway through, I was just looking at a paper that one of them had written on, and I figured out the correct answer long before they did; purely because there were two answers on it, and after they solved the first one they completely ignored that sheet of paper.
Of course, I didn't say anything, and when my mom found out that I knew the answer the whole time she got mad at me for not telling her. And I'm just sitting in the car on the way home thinking, 'what the hell woman, make up your damn mind'
......what kind of parents doesn’t even let their kids speak during an escape room? It’s a puzzle, not a library!
My mom was a control freak and really the only reason that we were even there is because she didn't want us doing "bad stuff" at home
But eh, it was years ago
Mr Sandwich Oh, ok.
Mr Sandwich man goddamn wamen. They can never make up their minds
@@starwarsnoah1424 let's not stereotype women ^^'
I went once and some guy took out a pocket knife and sawed some of the locks off
Edit: For those that want to know, a lot of the locks were some of those skinny ones with the small key than can be opened in two seconds
Excuse me what the fuck
Hope they charged him for the locks
Dance God Yeah they did
@@kenipii5591 They should also charge him for ruining the experience for everyone else (aka give everyone refund money). Who the fuck goes to an escape room just to saw your way out that literally makes no sense. It's like buying the largest ice cream and then just eating a few bites and throwing out the rest.
Daniel Kemnitz No they still didn’t let us leave until we solved it they just gave us the stuff in the cabinet later
Had a person have a major panic attack in the corner and they stopped breathing and almost died from it.
Yeah... that was fun
@Neroos ALT Sometimes panic attacks come randomly or are triggered by a certain word, they are not always from the environment.
Neroos ALT I’m saying that it’s not always the environment that causes panic attacks.
Neroos ALT Everyone has different triggers, you shouldn’t say that just because they happened to have a panic attack while playing a game that they shouldn’t play the game
Sorry to hear about the panic attack, but the truth is that the vast majority of panic attacks resolve in one of 2 ways. You calm down your breathing and take back a little control, or you breath to fast, pass out and wake up with a headache. That's it. The real problem comes in when the "panic attack" is not really a panic attack, but a true medical emergency that is causing a panic reaction, example: Person is actually having an arrhythmia causing rapid heart rate and minor dizziness, that causes the patient to become anxious, which increases the heart rate, which in turn exacerbates the underlying problem, which leads to more anxiety and so on. That is why, as a medic, I have to calm you down so i can then determine what is actually going on. (I can probably still do it during your panic reaction, but it complicates things).
Moral of the story, panic attacks are no reason to panic.
@Neroos ALT or would it
When I did a escape room with my friends we had to find 5 rings and the finally ring was on a sword we had to flip switches in a specific order to unlock the sword. My stupid friend just flipped all the switches really fast and unlocked the final ring and pulled the sword out. The employee went on the speaker and said wtf did you just do unlocking the last puzzle without solving any of the other puzzles.
Lol, he hacked it. This is what I would probably do.
More like your smart friend
As in they flipped them all at once or just tested a bunch of permutations?
Koritsi Alogo so there are 6 switch’s, if you flip one in the wrong order you have to flip all of them back to start and try again, my friend crouched down and put his hand on all the switches and switched them all really really fast and I don’t know how it worked but it did.
Candy Rage Neat. I was just curious as to how it worked. I’m not good at puzzles, but I find them to be interesting.
With my friends we started in a cell with handcuffs linked to a bench. The lady guiding us there (probably too focused in her roleplay) didn't mention the handcuffs, said 3 2 1 go and left. First friend handcuffs himself with one hand. Second friend has a doubt and locks both of his hands. I then handcuff both of my hands too with the third friend shortly followed by friend one. Result, all 4 of us completely stuck with both hands on the bench and softlocked out of the scenario. After 45min the lady checked the camera and saw us awkwardly crouched trying to grab the key with our feet...
Lmao but why would you think handcuffing yourselves would be the answer
@@andylutz3505 in group your IQ tends to drop ;)
So strange for the lady to wait whole 45min before checking in. We usually get a small hint if we're stuck on anything for more than 5 mins.
@@Etianen7 right...?
Where I work, there is always someone in the surveillance room... Especially if handcuffs are involved... 45 min seems illegal xD
45 MINUTES ???? Bro, I’m always watching my rooms, unless I *JUST* sent them a clue & think I can run and use the bathroom really quick, that’s it 😭
My coworker also runs an escape room business, this is one example he told me but it was his fault:
The group starts off the room by having to split into 2 rooms so half was in one and the other in another room, in order to ask for hints the group got a walkie talkie and who ever wanted to hold it got to hold it, so when one person got a hold of the walkie talkie they realized they needed a type of key that activated a lock to a door with pressure, so they stuck the walkie talkie antenna into the hole and opened the lock to the door
That's just bad design/ 3000 IQ plays
Big brain. Big Brain solutions.
Uhm, okay... That proves that managing an escape room business ain't easy.
Modern problems require modern solutions
@@cnash5647 No, it just proves that the concept is so new that most "suppliers" of escape rooms have no fucking clue what they're doing, just following a trend to milk it for cash.
We were doing a Harry Potter themed room and a big magic rod was the key to the exit door. After the intro the GM forgot it next to his chair. After 30 seconds we figured it out and opened the door. They still have our 30second time in the leaderboard as a joke. After that we kept going as usual just ignoring the key until the end
The most stupid decision is to try and escape a room with a freezing lake and cold snow inside with a bunch of strangers with you
lmao nice reference.
@@hushedmirth what's it a reference to
@@CarlitosG1711 escape room
GamingYoshi Fanatic Or maybe being in a supposed waiting room until it becomes a straight up oven.
how much money would it cost to build Minos escape rooms?
I leaned against a door that was held by magnets and it opened from my weight not us solving the puzzle
MAJESTICBUCKATRON nice pfp
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i dont understand why would someone cheat in escape room. like what? what is the purpose of going there at first place if you dont even try to solve it leggit.
Some escape rooms will keep track of people who make it in record time and put your picture on the wall.. Maybe thats their goal? So they can brag? Lol
I wasn't even trying, its just whatever
I went to an escape room in February for my birthday. I am thirteen and older than all of my friends. I'm the only teen here and we were two puzzles away from escaping. We got like an hour. I don't get scared easily from things that don't trigger my anxiety, but there was a book that I touched and it said, "I hear your heartbeat." I said, "Holy crap! What the frick?!?!?"
Exactly, why do people also cheat in sports and video games? I dont see how it can be fun ever
@@alexfrance8864 So people give them attention and think they're great
YT recommended me this after I watched Ethan and mark’s escape room video and Im not mad about it 😂
Ihasgaming same
I saw it too. The end scared me 8)
Lmao same
Same
Same
I went to an escape room themed like a kitchen. I looked on the little dinner table and saw two objects with letters on them.
"Hey! These say the letters "S" and "P" on them!" I said to my group.
"For salt and pepper?" one of them replied.
"I THINK I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT."
You remind me of a friend of mine xD She's fucking dumb, but sweet
What if it said s, c, p, o, 9, and 6?
@@Jack_OutsideTheBox ha see yall in hell bitchs
smellymeadow hel its a joke jeez!
@@Jack_OutsideTheBox mine was a joke as well lol
My friends and I did an escape room for a friend’s birthday.
We get to the third room and it has a bed in it. The whole time everyone’s been yelling at each other (not arguing just... yelling ._.)
I throw them the stuff I found under the bed sheets and hop on the bed and just lay there.
Every time the employees are typing something on the TV we hear a ding so whenever we hear the ding everyone screams and runs over.
TV- _Tell your sleeping friend to look in the pillow case_
Everyone runs over to me and lifts my head up, takes the pillow, and drops my head down. They find another clue and all scream at me for not checking the pillow and I just laugh.
Also, in the first room, we spent half the game trying to get out of there. The TV keeps showing us clues and stuff. And we start yelling at Oscar (the guy who walked us in the room) and the TV says, “This is Toby, Oscar left.” And we start yelling at Toby. Just incoherent yelling and yelling Toby’s name.
When we finally open the door to the second room, the TV pulls up that chicken Spongebob meme and we all start laUGHING. And then I ask them if they can pull up Maze Runner memes just because I wanted to see pictures of The Maze Runner ._.
They didn’t so that was disappointing.
When we got out, all our voices were hoarse and my friend’s parents were laUGHING. They said that they were watching us on an iPad and even though there was no audio on the iPad, they could hear us scrEAMING at Oscar and Toby XD
Shadøw Ecłipse so basically whenever you play a game that has an intercom in it in a nutshell
yep ._.
My friends and I were doing an escape room, and like the good friends who have known each other for 6 years, we’re just wasting time messing around and cracking jokes. Suddenly my friend goes “shh, do you guys hear that?” We all three go silent..
*in the background laughing*
Turns out my mom was watching us XD
But dude that sounds awesome XD
“OSCAR HOW COULD YOU ABANDON US?!? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!!”
Yeet Ski Deet get off my screen you satanic unholy gacha being
in an escape room i went to there was a secret door behind a trophy case. it had a magnetic lock that was activated by moving the trophies in a pattern. i figured out the pattern and got the door open. but i accidentally closed the door behind me and half of my group within the last 10 minutes. when the door closed the trophies shifted so we were locked in and stuck for the last 10 mins because the people outside of the door didn’t know the pattern. yeah… we failed the room
one whole foot
Couldn’t you shout it to them through the wall though?
What did the trophies look like? I did a very similar room.
For me they were two eggs, a metal elephant, and I forget the rest.
We had to order them to represent the cycle of life.
No one:
Not a single soul:
Reddit: Not an employee, but zuccini harvester
Dang it, thought about typing this.....
Not an employee, don't know anyone even remotely associated with an escape room in any way shape or form, not a human, not from earth, not a multicellular organism
8:06
lmao, you just know the staff were losing it at that guy
xD
Played an escape room once with some friends. It was fun, but one of our group kept relentlessly asking the employee for clues. We finished with 30 minutes to spare. I would have preferred to have just figure it out.
I agree, isn't that the point of an escape room?
So I was running an escape room and we had these tiny locks with tiny keys. So cute right?
...you’d be surprised by the amount of people who broke/almost broke the key by shoving it into the wrong lock.
i had of them, they break even if you just hold them
Just color the keys the same color as the lock they unlock
This why we cant have nice things 😂
We were supposed to find an L-shaped iron and use it to get a key out of a tube. Instead, we got a false plant (part of the room's decoration) and used it as one, without knowing that there was any stick in the first place.
Oh my goodness was it titanic themed? I did the EXACT same thing once XD
Obligatory not an employee. My friends and I did a Wild West themed escape room. The goal was to escape the sheriff’s office before he got back. This was my first escape room (everyone else’s second but they started with a challenging one and didn’t get a single clue right) so we made a couple bad mistakes.
We were split up into separate jail cells. There was a rope hanging between the cells with a key on it and a lock that stopped it from moving. You were supposed to use brooms to get the key to the cell I was in, but my friend just reached over and pulled it to them. The ring that held it in place stopped it so it was now out of everyone’s reach and stuck. The gm had to come undo it for us. She said that was the most common mistake.
Towards the end of the room, there was a circular wooden puzzle. There were lines, numbers, and addition and subtraction symbols. The goal was to line the pieces up using the lines and the wood grain so that it would tell you the order of the numbers and whether to add or subtract them. The final answer was the final combination. I read the last number upside down to my friend. He ended up seeing the error tho.
Ok so now we have the code. There’s a wooden crate in a closet. I got to it and noticed that the plank to the right could slide out. I pull it out but don’t realize that all the other planks could slide to the right then slide out. In the box was the last lock where that code goes. My friend puts in the code with one single-plank wide gap to work with. We get the sheriff’s badge which is the key to the door. By this time, the time was up, but the GM let us finish. So after I realized that the other planks can slide out, I take them all out and see that the final clue was a picture in the crate of where to put the badge. She gave the win to us with one second bc we were still able to finish the room. I still felt happy that it was my first escape room and the GM didn’t have to come in and tell us the remaining clues that we missed afterwards.
Yall sound like pros wtf 😂
Update: Our second escape room went much better. We did one of the 13th gate escape rooms (one of the not scary ones) and got out with 25 seconds, but our final time was like 65 something. I’ll explain why, but I won’t talk abt the actual escape room since I named the company this time. We had an iPad which was our timer. It could also be used to scan QR codes around the room that were hints. We still got clues from the GM on if we were going in the right direction or not. The QR hints were more helpful, but they added 3 minutes each on to the final time. You could also just get the answer after reading the clue, but that added 5 minutes to the final time. We scanned two clues, but no answers. One was useless bc we did the correct thing. It’s just it didn’t work at first so we thought we were wrong. But we tried again and it worked.
I’m proud bc I had an mvp moment. The group was abt to scan the clue. I figure out what to do at the last second and I’m like “WAIT” just in time. They hadn’t scanned the clue yet so I tell them what to grab to figure out the code that we needed and it worked.
@SuperSmashBoiz I had an experience kinda like that. This was my first(and only) escape room, and it was titanic themed. You had to find the key to the last life boat before the ship sank. My friends and I kept getting confused tho, but we were the last group of the day and the ppl working there were really nice, so they kept resetting our clock by a few mins before it ran out. Near the end I turn to my friends and go “you think there was someone on the titanic that just so happened to have the key to the last life boat in their room and needed to solve a bunch of puzzles to get it, but they were so bad at logic they kept resetting time so they wouldn’t drown?” XD
"I didn't work there and it wasn't an escape room but-..."
Damn! People go crazy when they enter an escape room when they really need to be sharp 🙃
Romaldo Roldan Yeah they are so fucking stupid
What if I want to be the most blunt object possible?
Yes, work smart not hard, amirite
I kinda wonder if being in a room like that causes you to think differently. The pressure of the situation can stress people out, and I think it would make sense for people to start overthinking, underthinking, conclusion-jumping, freaking out etc once in the room.
On timed math tests, I always did better when I didn’t know how much time I had, and I wouldn’t be that surprised if the timer and room had a similar effect on escape-room clients.
Koritsi Alogo eh maybe some people are different. I know when I’m in a timed situation like a math test. I usually think sharp and go after the problems I know first. Then go back and work on the more long/complicated problems.
The Kool-aid guy's method of escape. Must shout "OH YEAH!!!" while doing it, otherwise it won't work.
I don't think 911 is even the emergency number for Japan.
You can dial 911 in Australia and it automatically get rerouted to 000 instead. I think this is the case for alot of countries because of all the American tv shows that have poeple calling 911, alot of kids and more naive poeple end up thinking its the emergency number for their own country.
i thought it was normally 999 for other countries
@@zacharyframe1916 000 for Australia
They phoned 911 and it was answered locally by emergency services. Then, still thinking it was part of the game, they talked about a murder in Japan, and realised that they were talking to the real 911. Escape room people should've thought of that.
it is119 in a country i think
1:19 ”sheet of *paper* “
Them: Bed???
Like I assume they were just overthinking the clue but damn if it doesn’t remind me of retail customers who refuse to read sales signs properly.
7:18 or they thought it was a pot based pun because Harry POTTER
Lol!
Ha-re potter
I AM SMAART
Stood in the doorway wearing a tiny coat hoping for uncle Jeb to come save them
YES thank you! I was waiting for an unnus annus reference
Stormrose I’m glad people got it😂😂
i was like “the hell... OH MY god YES”
This helps me to know what *not* to do when i go to another escape room😂
xD
One time I saw some holes next to the door so I used those holes as a code to open a lock even the instructors didn't know the combination to
I wonder if that last zombie themed escape room was in Chicago, where we did ours years ago?!
Beeps!
Who are you talking to
about to go to chicago to do some escape rooms, lmk if you have any suggestions
We once master a 1 hour room in around 10 Minutes, which was 24 Minutes faster then the standing record.
We weren't exactly that good... We just never got around to half of the clues.
The last step to get the door key was to open a cage door which was triggered by light. (You need to shine two lamps at two sensors at the same time). We used the one flashlight we already had and two of us were holding a big mirror (which was only a prop (and really heavy and around 1x1 meter with a wooden frame) . It wasn't supposed to be moved from the wall at all)
Either way it worked and the baffled escape room employee who just was at the break room for a minute, stood in the open doorframe. We baffled as well (we thought in the cage were only the next clues) stood there, two people with a big ass mirror, one girl with a flashlight standing on a bench and one at the number pad, with the final paper in her hand. She (the employee) was really nice about it and just said she never thought of trying that. We put the mirror back and went for the photo. She and her colleagues let us put the warning sticker on the mirror...
(they had small stickers which said things like 'Do not remove - not part of the game' and 'Just decoration' for items which where in danger of getting destroyed or hurt customers)
I went with my brother and his family to one; the puzzles were to straight forward and basic (ie: line up colors, etc...). The thing is the contents in the room were really old and fragile. My nephew ends up opening a draw on one of the cabinets and it shatters and ends up cutting him. The hanging bird cage had a lock on it, but the cage was soo weak that I just gently open it without getting the number to the lock. We did end up failing, but it was a puzzle meant for 6 people, and it was basically just 3 adults and 2 kids -- so hopefully that doesn't make us too stupid. Also, half the time, you don't know when to use force and when not to. Some puzzles you have to force something like a brick (or like the tiki torch into a hole), and other times you think is a solution but end up breaking the prop.
"The puzzles were too straight forward"
"A lot of things opened when they werent supposed too"
"We didnt escape"
LOL how easy do you need it to be?!?!?
The only time I've ever even heard of escape rooms was in a Brooklyn Nine Nine episode that made them look really boring. I didn't realise there were all these cool themed rooms out there.
@2:20
Future entitled parent there.
Me and some friends of our family did an escape room. I got very uncomfortable and claustrophobic so went out for a while. I went back in and helped finish it with them. Me and my brother ‘sweet talked’ the lady (who was really nice and humorous) into giving us extra time and some clues (not being rude or demanding, but funny and we were very thankful). It was fun. Extra- the room we are doing was the hardest, 0.03 success rate. Also, one of the rooms had a dead gut missing a hand and finger that we thought we would have to use. Thankfully we didn’t. But one of us had to crawl in with the dead guy for a puzzle and I though it was an actor.
Oh my god ive only gone to 1 escape room but it was for a gifted program thing for our mysteries unit. That teacher wouldnt let us do anything. On the plus side we also got to make our own in the class room and my friend Jaxon had the idea of making one where he had a disease that you had to cure or else he would die and my best friend and I said, oh well we're just not going to solve it lmao
densch123 pretty sure that’s illegal
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Lol an F in the chat for Jaxon
When I was little I did an escape room that was Halloween themed, but there were no jump scares. The only thing close to a jump scare was when Dracula slowly rose from the coffin as a small funny scare. But the room operator saw me holding my stuffed animal dog and decided it was best for that not to happen.
Especially when my parents had left me alone in the room because they found the next clue.
The dumbest way someone could escape
Not escaping
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I mean if you escape you are immediately doing better than those who don't so it's really not the dumbest way
albedo stick nodes or just see if the door is unlocked
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4:50 That's not stupid, that's called "thinking outside the box." That kid's got a bright future ahead of them.
9:47 I guess you could say the guy got shafted
Me: *witnesses an emergency accident*
Me: "CALL NINE DOUBLE ONE!"
4:58 that kid was Louise Belcher
Probably
This reminds me of an escape room I did with my mom, uncle and grandmother, and all we had to do to finish the room was an action puzzle, where the clue was to "make a chain from one peg on one side of the room to the other". Logical me thought, "a chain? well, we must hold hands from one peg to another to complete the current."
You know, cause the human body conducts electricity.
All three of them wrote off my suggestion, even after several tries. They insisted that they had to tie random strings (Used to fix keys and other clues, mind you) to complete the currents.
After several minutes of futile attempts, the screen that gave hints said, and I quote, "Why not listen to all of the group member's suggestions? They may have already had the answer for a while."
That was at the literal last minute of the room. had they not said anything, we would have failed, just cause they didn't listen to my suggestion.
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Ah, enslaved air water.
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That “enslaved” meme is just “enslaved autism”
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There was this one time when around 8 of my friends and I went into an Alcatraz-themed room, and we were split into three different prison cells, all locked with a different kind of lock. We go throughout the course of the puzzle and two cells had already been opened when we were getting close to the end. Two of my friends in the last cell kept shaking the door and begging us to open it for them, because they couldn’t for the life of them figure it out.
We ended up unlocking the exit and escaping all while the third cell was still locked, so we all thought, “Whoa!! That’s so cool! They even had a hidden message about how escaping will always entail sacrificing something or someone.” We excitedly called the gamemaster from the front counter, telling him about how cool it was that the third cell was meant to stay locked. Except he didn’t respond with the same excitement, he was _confused_ instead. He said that wasn’t supposed to happen, and after the guy explained to us how the door was supposed to unlock, we figured out that we had probably unlocked the door at least three times during the entire thing, since we had done exactly what he showed us, but since they kept shaking the door, *it locked again.*
The dislikes are the people who couldn’t get out of the escape rooms
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Or from the people who realized they can literally go to Reddit and read these stories.
The real smarties are the lads that never get locked in a room to begin with
One time doing one they would put us in cells (prison theme) and you were supposed to toss a rope with a magnet to undo some latch on some.. laundry hamper stuck to wall, my dad just got the thing around the hamper and pulled the hamper off the wall anyways, skipping a step... eventually we lost because we didn't realize there were multiple consecutive rooms to it and spent lots of time in the first one, but also was our first time doing one and we were actually pretty close to the end (iirc 3 more things to figure out in the last of the rooms) But because of us not knowing we were only in first room, we used up 2/3 of our hints early on (thankfully the game masters were allowed to give free hints when they thought we were truly stuck and/or going on a tangent that would waste so much time)
Also I am in Texas so by law they couldn't actually lock the door to the entrance room, so when we got out of cells, a guy in our group just opened and went "WE'RE DONE" before the hint screen dinged and said "no" and then we remembered the law and then continued XD
And to stop stupid accidental breakage of things, red tape on anything that you shouldn't touch BUT they did tell us "Please do not pee in the toilets, they DO. NOT. WORK."
THE TOILETS
So uh, I got a quick 'lil Escape Room story ;w;
One day, I was going on a gifted field trip to the escape room with my classmates. We arrived after a 20 minute drive. We has already pre-paid, so uh, ill just skip straight to the juicy part. When i was solving the puzzle, I suddenly had the urge to go *Pee.*
I asked my gifted teacher to go because she was supervising us. She replied with "I dunno If you'll be able to come back.." Mind you, the guy that was watching from the cameras before we got in the room explained in these EXACT WORDS, "You can go to the restroom and be able to get back inside the room." So i asked my gifted teacher again, But i said it like "So, Can I go?" And she replied, "Fine, But don't blame me when you can't get back in." After i went, i came back in the room and she was looking stupid at me for the rest of the Escaping. We won the room.
YOUR teacher is special
One time I was in an escape room. I had a pen but wasn’t allowed to bring paper in to write notes.
I wrote on my arms.
My best friend's fiance owns an escape room company. She says the stupidest thing was some girl got claustrophobic and instead of just asking to be let out, she ripped the lock box from the door. She had to pay for that obviously. Honorable mention to the group that started smashing vases to see if something was inside. They just had to look down with a flashlight and if there was something to turn it over. The vases were like $2000 to replace since they were all custom made; she had to take them to court to get them to pay.
7:50 Hey me and my family did that exact one! It was pretty fun but we didnt escape.
Remember once this person in my group guesses a code and so when we found the clue we literally spent about 20-30 minutes trying to find the solution to this clue. We still solved it
One time me and my siblings were going to a escape room and I would be saying right answers and my older brother EVERY SINGLE TIME would say “no it’s (incorrect answer)” we didn’t escape
I just don't understand how people don't realize that if they are destroying or damaging the room, using things they brought with them that were not in the room, or doing something the average person could not do (like lockpicking), they are probably doing something wrong
A good number of stories here just make me think of VI from league of legend, "sometime, you gotta MAKE a door."(as she slams her massive mechanical fists through concrete/metal/you)
Me and my family did a WW2 escape room. We were supposed to get locations that were taped on using the frequencies and some rigged slicer. We were hardstuck because the slicer didn't move so we fixed the radio that was broken for years.
Step 1. Don't run escape room.
The end.
I want to one day actually experience escape rooms.
They seem fun, but it really requires competent players. Me and my friends would play and maybe only me and (friend) would be able to fifure it out. We are a group of 5, 2 are smarter than the other 3 combined.
Sometimes the incompetence IS the fun!
*figure
Both times Ive been to an escape room, in a feat of pure luck, I unlocked two locks after putting in a random combination
That's incredible
"Thank God I can still bullshit my way through the world." -Me.
There was a door locked with a chain with 8 locks on it, but you only needed to open 3 of the locks to pull the chain out. We wasted 15 minutes searching for the rest of the keys and codes but still got out with 10 minutes left
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I went to a zombie escape room once like the last story. The operator made sure to tell us not to touch the zombie unless it touched you first, and that must be why.
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My best friend had a friend who’s dad was the owner of an escape room. I went over to their house, and their parents told us we were going to an escape room! All three of us (me, her, and her twin sister) were so excited because we had never been to an escape room. Turns out we were beta testing it with her friend’s dad. (Please note that I do not like their parenting and it is very different from my mom’s parenting)So we went in and we all were excited until all of the parents would just ignore us and not let us do anything. Soon we had to hurry up because we had been in there for almost an hour and a half and they had to get me home because it was past my bedtime. When I got home I told my mom about it and she said we could go together one day and I would be able to do some stuff. She still hasn’t taken me(it wasn’t too long ago), but it’s good to know that next time somebody offers me to beta test an escape room(they probably won’t) I will definitely say no.
So many of these stories confuse me. Every escape room I've ever been in has very strict policies and usually get you to deposit everything in your pockets into a locker and PROVE you have emptied them and have nothing else on you before entering. How on EARTH are people getting switchblades and purses inside? Like why would you even allow that?
the last necrophile thing creeped me out
Never heard of "escape rooms" before this video, never knew that was a thing. The first few stories I was like "WTF??!"
Really? Bro they're fuckin' *lit*
Literally everyone I've ever played with liked it and I have a diverse group of friends. You should try one.
I do them when I visit my cousin. you should try them, they are really fun.
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* _leveling up drum plays_ *
*LOCKPICKING 100*
In response to kids being right when the parents aren’t...I did an escape room with some of my family. The story was that we were kidnapped by an evil doctor who was going to do torturous experiments on us if we could not escape. There was one point in the escape room where we found vials meant to hold blood (we had to place them in the right order to solve a clue) but when we came to the end and we couldn’t figure out the clue, my young cousin, eight, was so sure we had to fill the vials with our own blood. Even to the point where he started to try to prick his hand with props found in the room...
Was he right?
I don't think they would need you to actually hurt yourself for a puzzle
My boyfriend and I did and escape room for a date and the story was that this wizard got captured by demons and you had to help him before you got captured too. The room was meant for 6+ people so we looked stupid trying to solve anything, but our favorite stupid moment was when we got to this puzzle where you have to smell the air your partner is blowing out of a box with a tool you get in a locked chest. The tool had the names of the scents it could be like lavender, cedar, rose, and a few more. Well we looked at cedar and both agreed we didn't even know what the word was because I pronounced it (se-dar). The lady watching us was probably dying of laughter because we said it wrong at least 20 times in a couple minutes. She finally gave us a hint saying "I love a walk in the woods" to where I had that realization, started laughing and yelled out "omg! Its CEDAR!" Which is pronounce (see-der) incase you didn't know
Edit: sorry its kinda long for no reason
The computer voice pronounces coworkers “cow-orkers” 😂
i once played an entire escape room with the lights off because i thought the lights being off was supposed to be a part of the aesthetic of the puzzle, spent the whole time with friends yelling for the tiny blacklight we had been provided with and to back away from a small lightbulb in the corner. turns out the lightswitch that we found by the door could had been used at any time and the puzzle was not meant to be done with the lights off, we finished with 9 seconds left all screaming in panic
Imagine escaping an escape room
Sheer mortals just jump through the wall
When the "dumb parents who don't listen to their kids" one came on, I don't know why, but I almost started crying. Maybe it's because my mom doesn't really care about what I have to say. She lets me know too, that she doesn't care about how I feel or what I have to say..
I once got put in a very realistic escape room with a bunch of other people, we all had to wear orange and they had lots of people guarding us, so after 2 years I couldn't figure it out so they just let me go I guess.
5:30 I agree with the bad parents. I was doing this escape room with me, my sister, and a friend along with my mom, Aunt, and uncle. We figured out most the clues and they didn’t let us do anything, so we lost when we were really close cause they kept snatching everything out of our hands
I have done many escape rooms and in one of them, we got out with 5 mins left. Turns out we bypassed a lock and an entire clue, and still made it out.
My story: we were in the Wisconsin dells and did an escape room, it was my family and a different family. The other family did most of the work and the dad was smart as hell, well I figured out some part of it but didn’t realize there was a code on the lock type thing that folded in and out, turns out that was the last piece we needed to solve the puzzle and we lost bc of my 11 year old self
I once sat down 15 minutes in because I was tired. It unlocked a second room.
If one of those games had an actual bed in it... I'd be like "yo, I am taking a nap, wake me up when this nonsense is over."
Lol I went to an escape room with my parents, grandparents, uncle, and a family friend one time. We were getting pretty far but we ran out of time. The worker came in to tell us what we messed up. He closed the door, but he said he had a key. He forgot his key outside. We were the last ones there and the only other worker there left already. He tried to break the door but it wouldn’t work. He had to get a table and put a chair on it, and he had to move the tiles in the ceiling and climb through to open the door from the other side. It’s safe to say I’ll never forget that day.
I love escape rooms I'm otw to one rn. One time they left a real nail gun in there I was playing with it and my dad was like "THATS REAL PUT IT DOWN" 🤣
Before start of video: how dumb can ppl be?
After video: i have lost faith in humanity
I remember me and my friends were in the hardest room they had. We solved the first 2 doors and was at the last door. We literally randomly guessed the pattern to the door and unlocked the door. All 3 doors together had about 18 clues to solve. We solved about 10 and skipped the rest