"Escape room" games

[Benton]

(10-11-2020, 03:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So this ended up being the most fun I have had with my kids in a long long time.  They are both very smart and love puzzles.  We did the hardest game (Prison Break) and it was brutal.  We would not have been able to do it without the clues they provided.  Most of the stuff we could have figured out with more time, but there were a couple that I don't think I could have ever found.  For example at one point you remove certain books from a bookshelf and the answer we were looking for were numbers created by the shapes of the spaces left when we removed the books.  It is hard to explain but basically imagine all the books were black and the wall behind the shelves was white.  The answer was created by the shapes of the white portions you would see when the books were removed.

The last thing we had to do was cut a wire and we made it with just 7 seconds left.  They have a big digital clock with red numbers counting down from 1 hour.  It was just like a movie.  We cut the wire and the clock stopped at 0:00:07.

There were only three of us, but I honestly believe that any more than 4 would just lead to more confusion.  And most of the stuff was way too complicated for anyone under high school age.

My daughter just turned 12. We did one a couple years ago and got out in half the time because her hand was small enough to fit into a locked box which had the final key.