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Has Nina from HR sent your entire team to one of these loving places again? Post about it here.Bonk posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_Room_Escape discount cathouse fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Dec 19, 2022 |
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Knives Out part 3. The escapening.
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Dec 19, 2022 12:30
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One of our vendors took my team to one a couple weeks ago. It was well designed kind of fun. It was followed by a very nice meal where they spared no expense on the booze so can't complain.
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Dec 19, 2022 12:37
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IM THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH *smashes through wall, technically winning the game*
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Dec 19, 2022 12:37
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I think they're pretty fun, but I've only done them with friends and family and the ones we went to were really well-designed. There was a local one that had an entire subway car you'd go inside and once you solved some puzzles an entire door would slide away to make it look like the subway car was moving on to the next station.
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Dec 19, 2022 12:39
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they're a fun activity to do now and again. the cheap ones are a whitewashed Crystal Maze style affair, the expensive ones can have really high production values, but they're both fun with a chill group. mind you, most things are fun with a chill group.
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Dec 19, 2022 12:45
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I´ve been to a couple of escape rooms myself and I like it. It´s like solving adventure game puzzles IRL and I´m down for that. SOme of these rooms have a really cool atmosphere, and I enjoyed the horror ones, like the Misery escape room in Munich that starts with one team member tied to a bed. If anyone is in NY, there is a jewish themed escape room in Brooklyn where you can roleplay jews escaping a progrom, if you´re into that.
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Dec 19, 2022 12:48
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I like them, they're good fun. The best one I've done started with our group split into two teams, in separate jail cells, all with one arm handcuffed to the furnishings. It rapidly emerged from shouting back and forth to the other team that we had stuff in each cell that was needed to solve puzzles or open stuff in the other cell so there was a lot of teamwork (and careful passing of items between cells) to get us all uncuffed and eventually out of the cells. Real good poo poo. The worst I've ever done had an auto-success system where if you got stuck on a puzzle and the timer went past where the operators had set it would just auto-complete the puzzle and open the next section. This loving sucked because once it happened you were left with a bunch of items where you now had no idea if they were relevant in the next area of would have been part of the solution to the puzzle you missed. Don't solve poo poo for me, let me figure it out, that's what I'm paying for! I'd rather fail than be shepherded through and patronizingly told "you did it, good job" at the end. Every puzzle that involves you plotting two intersecting lines across a map to determine co-ordinates that solve some other puzzle can gently caress off forever.
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Dec 19, 2022 14:24
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i wouldn't want to do one with work, that'd take the fun out of it i've done a lot of escape rooms over the years. doing some next week in fact. i think my fave was one in dublin where two escape rooms were jammed into a canal boat yet included things like a clue being anchored in the harbour and you have to find it with a periscope, or the room you were in flooding while you frantically tried to figure out how to stop it flooding, and poo poo like being split into 2 teams and each team eventually finding their way into the room the other team were in. the space efficiency was amazing i've also been in one (some kind of christmas pop up thing) that was just in a tent in the corner of a massive empty warehouse building. some of them are like a real life equivalent of those stupid "99% will fail" logic puzzle things on facebook and they don't actually make sense, so you end up having to ask for hints all the time. even if they're poo poo you can still have fun complaining about how poo poo it was in the pub afterwards though
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Dec 19, 2022 15:50
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I got taken to one as my pre-wedding party for a marriage that ended after 6 months so I think they're bad, OP
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Dec 19, 2022 15:51
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I've done a few and they are a good time if you can do it with buddies instead of your manager. The first one I ever did was rough and probably the worst one I ever did. It was a haunted house themed one, with decent enough production value. But the puzzles were difficult, the lighting was dark so you needed flashlights to see anything, and most annoyingly there were a lot of red herrings. Like, the escape room explicitly tells you that there are tons of red herrings designed to waste your time. And they did eat up our time, we failed right as we were figuring out the final puzzle. Very frustrating. I have been playing a lot of Escape Simulator on steam over the past year. Its great cause i dont have to pay out $30 every time i wanna escape a room.
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Dec 19, 2022 16:41
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Start a little fire and they have to let you out 
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Dec 19, 2022 17:03
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Escape rooms own hard, and it's funny that they started as flash games. Any work social activity is going to have the inherent downside of being a work social activity, but they're still enjoyable in that instance. With friends, they're a blast. There's other factors, but I am of the opinion that room quality has an inverse relationship to the number of standard-rear end locks (combination or otherwise). They aren't bad, exactly, but they don't add anything, and bad rooms tend to lean on them as puzzles, when there's real limits to how much you can disguise a number sequence. Scavenger hunts in poor lighting are straight-up garbage. I am not paying money to have to see by the light of a lovely flashlight for an hour. PuzzleWorks in the Twin Cities is a really good local place--all of their setups have a fun story, have at least one technically impressive puzzle or mechanic (and often more), and have multiple rooms--which I think really helps make an actual sense of progression.
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Dec 19, 2022 17:43
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A Fancy Hat posted:I think they're pretty fun, but I've only done them with friends and family and the ones we went to were really well-designed. drat that’s cool as hell. I don’t like these because I can never figure stuff out as quickly as other team members so I’m dead weight. The new beavis and butthead ep with them in an ‘escape room’ is p. Good.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:08
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haha no I haven't figured out how to escape my room. maybe next year
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Dec 19, 2022 19:12
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I did one that was essentially a mom and pop place. The owner was the designer. He had put like 20 separate puzzles in the 2nd room. There shouldn't even be 20 puzzles total for an hour game. Needless to say, we failed. It was a joke. Another one where we failed the final solution was to ask the moderator/guide if the final puzzle piece was under his hat. loving dumb because someone had asked earlier in the sequence but he hadn't hid it yet so...yeah. We've finished every other one we have done and they have generally been fun. My point is that when they are badly designed it can really ruin the experience. Oh wait, there was a 3rd we failed. A Legend of Zelda themed one. There were like 200 people in the room with 10 people to a table. Ours was one of the very few to fail. Why? Because each table had a helper person and ours didn't help. We were watching everyone around us progress and we'd ask a hint question and he'd respond with "look in the book." We spent the last 30 minutes getting more and more pissed that this guy was being so obstinate when it was obvious the other proctors were actually trying to help people enjoy ourselves. "Can we have a different hint now, there are only 5 minutes left?" "look in the book" WHERE IN THE loving BOOK? "just look in the book, that's all I can tell you." We were ready to strangle that guy. gently caress you OP. I'd completely forgotten about that and now I'm mad again.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:43
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the only one I ever did was "spaceship running out of oxygen" themed and it was pretty fun albeit quick and incredibly morbid when you stopped to think about it for a second
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Dec 19, 2022 19:45
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I want Lizzo outside to hear an Ocarina in time.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:45
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The last time I did an escape room, it was with coworkers and I ended up having to pee so bad that the people running the thing had to let me out. Very embarrassing. I mean, I was allowed to come back and we were allowed to continue escaping the room, but I felt like an rear end in a top hat for breaking kayfabe. Every other time I've done escape rooms, it was also with coworkers but fun as hell.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:57
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they call it an escape room because when you see the building you turn 360 degrees and escape away
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Dec 19, 2022 20:55
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Never look up or else you may see beauty inside. That or UFOs.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:06
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YeahTubaMike posted:The last time I did an escape room, it was with coworkers and I ended up having to pee so bad that the people running the thing had to let me out. Very embarrassing. I mean, I was allowed to come back and we were allowed to continue escaping the room, but I felt like an rear end in a top hat for breaking kayfabe. Shoulda just peed in the room somewhere. There's usually empty bottles or jars lying around.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:07
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I really hate the ones that have someone standing in the room with you, especially if you have to interact with them as part of the puzzles. All of my favorite ones that I have done have just had someone watching via a camera that you can ask for clues (or they tell you "Quit trying to take the painting frame off of the wall that isn't part of the puzzle", etc)
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Dec 19, 2022 21:12
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I’m sure that The Adventure Game and The Crystal Maze came before any Flash games. I think there was one on Ghost Train for a while too. Granted they weren’t public experiences but I’m sure it’s a much older format.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:34
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All your life is an escape room and your task is to escape misery and the puzzle is the human condition, if you think about 
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Dec 19, 2022 21:48
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I've never been to one and I feel like if it was through work I would feel obligated to try it even if I don't really want to. I have had similar things like this when I was in school and I always hated things where you had to work in a group. The worst was one where we had to recreate a shape made with toothpicks and marshmallows and we had to do it as a group of like 5 people and each person had to walk a ways to get to the next one. So basically it was like telephone but harder. I don't know how the group that won actually did it. I always hated "activities" like this. I don't think I would like it but I'd be willing to try I guess if my friends were really into it.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:51
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I took my parents to an escape room once. I called ahead and asked if the room would be appropriate for my mom who is in her 60s with a bad back who can't do much bending or lifting. They assured me it was great for anyone of any ability. Half the room's puzzles required you to be in a crawlspace.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:52
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I've been interested in checking out an escape room but my friends are all a bunch of dumb dumbs and I know I would end up choking one of them. Yes, I am aware that this is really a me problem.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:53
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Rosalind posted:I took my parents to an escape room once. I called ahead and asked if the room would be appropriate for my mom who is in her 60s with a bad back who can't do much bending or lifting. They assured me it was great for anyone of any ability. That's pretty loving stupid they thought that was fine for an older person but even for me I would nope the gently caress out on that. I hate enclosed spaces.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:55
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I tried to break into an escape room and it was like a matter antimatter explosion so me and about 40,000 people died instantly
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Dec 19, 2022 21:57
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I found the game I was talking about https://toggl.com/track/team-building-games/ quote:#6 Sneak a Peek
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Dec 19, 2022 21:59
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Trapped in escape room, can’t get out! Ran out of food days ago, water is running low, air is getting thick and sour, building must be airtight, not much time left, call for help
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Dec 19, 2022 22:01
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These seem like fun, if you're a bedwetter type
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Dec 19, 2022 22:02
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SilvergunSuperman posted:These seem like fun, if you're a bedwetter type Lol what if you do have to pee tho? Someone should do a combo of one of those rooms where you can smash stuff to pieces with an escape room where you can piss on anything you want too. 
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Dec 19, 2022 22:39
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Cubone posted:I went to an escape room, one of the originals, because I'm hip, the Real Escape Game in japantown, which they had brought over from japan and I believe kicked off the craze
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Dec 19, 2022 23:00
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or realize a chair has a hollow leg and pull it off and there's like, half of a screwdriver hidden inside and you had to find the other half so you could unscrew stuff
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Dec 19, 2022 23:38
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The one with a bunch of vintage poo poo in it where the lady who ran the place kept yelling “Don’t touch the lamp/vase/typewriter” over the loudspeaker was a loving bummer.
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Dec 19, 2022 23:44
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ive been to the hitler experience escape room a few times but never could beat it. the farthest i could get is opening the safe with the gun in it. they wouldn't give me anymore clues at that point.
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Dec 19, 2022 23:54
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Szyznyk posted:The one with a bunch of vintage poo poo in it where the lady who ran the place kept yelling “Don’t touch the lamp/vase/typewriter” over the loudspeaker was a loving bummer. you just went to some grandma's house lol
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Lol what if you do have to pee tho? Someone should do a combo of one of those rooms where you can smash stuff to pieces with an escape room where you can piss on anything you want too. I think in many modern ones you aren’t actually locked in, you just have to get the key to a second exit door.
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