There usually aren’t “rules” per se, other than don’t break things or climb on things. With larger groups (6+), you experience less of the puzzles, and while I don’t need to be involved in each puzzle, I like to at least know it existed, and that can be tough with big groups. My preferred experience is 1 or 2 people, as I enjoy the increased pressure. The websites for various rooms will typically list maximum capacities and a suggested number of attendees, but I would usually half those numbers or more. Some establishments might have mixed groups, allowing parties that don’t know each other to play together, and others block off any additional capacity once someone has booked, so you’ll only be solving with your own group. In short, you and your friends will be “locked” in a room for 60ish minutes solving puzzles. This location stepped it up a bit and had these souped up extruded room icons indicating the theme of the room that lays just behind the door. When we went to the Cincinnati location, I meant to take a picture of how the rooms are labelled in the hallway leading back to them, as there was some nice artwork labeling each one, but I didn’t. (That place was huge! and the drawback of the hours was that the various ice cream places were closed by the time we got out.) This was like that but the opposite: many people around and helpful building directories, but still a mini puzzle to find the location. Which is partially to say, I’m use to having to poke around a little to find where one is: in an abandoned office building, in a dark alley. Escape rooms don’t usually require much from their landlords as far as specific facilities go, and, at least so far, there doesn’t seem to have been a need to place them in high traffic commercial areas. This specific location? Is inside the Mall of America – a shopping extravaganza with more than 550 stores, an aquarium, an indoor roller coaster, etc. One of the things I love about The Escape Game locations is the broad variety of operating hours –you can book from 8AM to Midnight! A few years ago for my birthday I tried to schedule as many rooms as I could in a day, and those kind of hours would have come in handy. Of course, I don’t want to spoil any of the fun, so no need to fret on that front I won’t discuss anything too specific. It is a more tech-heavy experience, and the support it requires may be too much the room isn’t being added to any locations that don’t have it now.)Īs with last time, today I’ll give you an overview as best I can of escape/puzzle rooms in general and towards the bottom you’ll get my thoughts on this one.
(According to our host in Minneapolis, this room may not be for long. The company offered I could check out the Minneapolis location during a trip I was making, and while I was at first hesitant, because I didn’t want to spoil a room that I could play at home with my friends, the Minneapolis location had one room that we don’t have in Cincinnati: Mission: Mars. We recently reviewed their Prison Break room in Cincinnati, they have a board game which Dale has reviewed previously, and a subscription puzzle service which we’ll be reviewing soon. The Escape Game is a chain of escape/puzzle rooms based out of Nashville, with locations across the country.
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