r/escaperooms

Looking for an escape room for a colleagues leaving do. I have found 2 with capacity for 8 people: IAMAI and Battle for Britain. Are either recommended for such a big group, or would we be better of separating into two groups of 4 doing different rooms?

So the company that I built escape rooms for went out of business. I am sitting on a bunch of controllers and equipment from Fright Props. Anyone here know where I can get trios of this stuff? eBay doesn’t seem to be the place and locally is a bust. TIA.

I am going to be traveling to Orlando later this year and want to experience some of Orlando’s best/immersive escape rooms. Drop your recommendations!

Hi y’all!

I have an idea for a theme that I’ve pitched to my friends and they all think it’s great and has a lot of potential. The issue is, I don’t have the skills or experience to design and build it alone. I’m hoping someone of you have ideas for me.

Originally, I wanted to partner with an acquaintance, but they aren’t available.

Thanks in advance

I'm a physical escape room designer based in Taiwan.

I built a 70-minute experience where players are told only one thing at the beginning:

they are about to meet a friend.

Then something happens, and they begin to believe they are in a war.

They solve puzzles, follow instructions, and try to survive.

Only at the very end do they realize —

they were never where they thought they were.

This experience exists physically in Taiwan,

and for most people, it's not something they will ever be able to experience in person.

I recently documented it because its future is uncertain,

and it may not exist for much longer.

I'm not really here to promote it like a product.

I'm just trying to figure out —

does something like this still matter,

even if you can never actually experience it yourself?

I think escape rooms are evolving past the plot having to be about escaping a room - they could be about finding treasure or a load of other things that involve solving puzzles and staying in more or less one room.

I've also seen these booklets that send you round a city solving puzzles that involve looking at the architecture and spotting things, and are linked into a story involving the cities history. These are very good, and clearly evolved out of escape rooms without the rooms or the escaping.

Is there anything else you've seen that has evolved out of escape rooms?

Please use this thread to promote or recommend Escape Rooms/Games (whether IRL or online). As usual, please don't just put a link as your entire post. Make sure to elaborate with your thoughts or design philosophies. Writing the names of the room/game in **bold** is nice, to make it easier for people skimming the thread to pick out the names.

Please also make sure to use spoiler tags if you're posting anything about a room or game that might significantly hurt the experience of others that haven't played the game yet (no matter how old or new the game is).

Just thought I’d post this in a place where anyone who has experienced the magic of LA’s Quest Rooms can mourn together:( I was trying to book and saw it wasn’t possible, so I checked their Instagram and saw they had closed their doors about a week ago. I am heartbroken! Red Giant and Perfumer were two of my and my partner’s favorite rooms of all time. We noticed before the announcement that their rooms were extremely expensive all of a sudden, so it seems they were struggling. I’m sad we never had a chance to do every single one of their rooms, although I feel lucky we did many. I was always curious about Minotaur, although my health never permitted me to do that one. I’d be down to hear any experiences with it, as I guess spoilers don’t matter anymore.

Well wishes to everyone who created these amazing rooms and ran them!

Hello! I've only ever done escape rooms with my husband (and occasionally with our kids as well), but I am going to be in Orlando for a week for a conference and was curious if anyone had recommendations for a room that I could tackle solo. When we are working together, we are fairly advanced and I know that I perform well on my own also, but I honestly don't even know if "solo escape rooms" are a thing to begin with.

So... does anyone have a recommendation in Orlando? Is this even a thing? And, for the sake of discussion, does anyone have any solo experience (outside of Orlando) that you could share?

Thanks!

Does anyone know of any escape rooms in OC/Riverside (or anywhere nearby) for large groups that is similar to The Hex Room?>!Specifically, I like how everyone has their own puzzles to work on in the beginning. !<Maybe for like 8 people or so.

We’ve been taking our kids to a lot of escape rooms lately and have had a blast… I’ve seen some discussion about kids on here a few times, we always pay to make sure we’re doing a private room. So they can enjoy, and their enjoyment doesn’t impede others.

That being said, his birthday and Father’s Day are coming up and I’d love to surprise him with a date night room for just us! Any suggestions for adults?? We’ve also had to avoid anything too “scary” or adult because of the cherubs so - I just want the best and most fun for us!

I’ve done a lot of research and reading - I’m wondering if the physical challenge ones or there’s like a “if I could only do one room ever this is the one I’d do” suggestion. Because date nights are super hard to come by and we may realistically only get to do one on our own for a long time!

Hi there.

For a summer activity, my friends and I are looking to do escape room challenges. In the past, we've done rooms at Granite State Escape in Manchester, NH and am considering a tougher room, and are willing to travel. What are the toughest escape rooms in New England?

The escape room I work for is developing a new room and asking me for a few new puzzles to put in as finishing touches.

The catch is that they don't want any more combo/pad locks and we don't really have an ability to wire anything new.

My brain is full of *clues*, but for the life of me, I can only come up with so many ways to keep something closed until a puzzle is solved (the way a lock would).

What are your favorite, non lock, non electrical, containers/closers?

Greetings! Hoping to get some advice on this project:

I'm looking to build/find a treasure chest that has a built in combo lock. I'm envisioning the combination wheels are built into the body of the chest. The code to the lock is a 5 letter word that you figure out from previous clues. So far all I can find are the 5 letter Masterlock padlocks, and then security boxes with three letter combo locks. There are keypad security boxes with the full alphabet, but I don't trust those to survive outside. Does anyone have experience seeing these or making something like this? Is it even possible, or would it just be better to use one of those Masterlocks? The vision is to have a built-in combination lock so that the chest fits the theme of the scavenger hunt, as a commercially bought lock would break immersion. I'm willing to cannibalize such locks to build this, though I don't have any experience doing that.

Last ditch resort is to just use the 5 digit Masterlock, weather and patina it to fit the aesthetic. Any advice on other mechanisms would be much appreciated, though!!

I'm looking at making a drive from the baltimore area to Cedar Point park in Ohio. Are there any good escape rooms I should divert to along that general path? I was considering Seeking Sasquatch or one of the Enter the Imaginarium ones in Pittsburgh.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with designing an escape room experience built entirely around cards — something in the style of games like Unlock!, Deckscape, or Escape Tales — combined with a simple web app for additional interaction.

Recently, I’ve been trying to integrate AI into the design process (for puzzle generation, story building, and even creating card visuals). But I’ve run into a recurring challenge: AI tends to default to detective-style scenarios (investigations, evidence, crime scenes, etc.) whenever I mention “escape room.”

That’s not really what I’m aiming for.
What I want instead is a cohesive set of diverse puzzles — logic, codes, visual clues, etc. — all tightly connected to a central theme or narrative, without leaning into crime/investigation tropes. The goal is more about immersive storytelling and puzzle variety rather than solving a case.

I’ve noticed that getting useful results from AI requires very specific prompting and structuring — especially if I want:

•Puzzles that logically connect to each other and the story  
•Thematic consistency across cards  
•Visual assets that match the puzzle design  
•Integration with a web app component

So I’m curious:
Has anyone here experimented with using AI to design escape room-style games (especially card-based ones)?

How do you guide the AI to stay within a specific theme and avoid unwanted tropes?

Any tips for structuring prompts or workflows to get better puzzle coherence?

Would really appreciate hearing about your experiences or any tools/methods you’ve found effective.

Thanks!

I am looking for a remote escape room for 7 people, preferably under an hour and not a lot of reading since some players will have English as a learned language

Any recommendations?

Anyone done ClueHQ as a remote group? So far that's the only one I've found that is reasonably priced for a group of 7.

I've never done a web-based escape room before, so I'm not sure how it will work. I'd love to hear your recommendations and insights into group online play!

Tia 🙂