Escape Rooms Be Like

[Mark-gxfz]

"I'm done with this. Bring in the think we call this an escape room for nothing?"

[Blockhog]

I went to an escape room with family, my brother spent a large part of the time working on a simple math puzzle. In the end, he never figured it out. When the person who ran it told us about what we needed to do to finish since we were close, he explained the math puzzle. It didn't do the order of operations properly. He said the reason it was like that was because most people wouldn't know to do it correctly.

[HayBaleGeography]

Bro the fact that he added them up wrong is an amazing touch

[blazesartdump]

This reminds me of the time my family went to an escape room in Virginia and there was this chess board that was giving my dad a lot of trouble (we were calculating the moves of each chess pieces and moving them along the chess board to get a code), so I just called the front desk and asked (which we were allowed to do) and the guy said to move the chess piece across the board until we felt a magnet and start the stuff we were doing from there. Needless to say, my dad was not very happy after that.



gosh that was long

[ciudadri]

The hint in the wall is a 4-digit number so we already know that the first digit is a 4

[Netaction]

As a Game Designer I can confirm this is accurately how some players solve riddles.

[Janhan_]

I went to an escape room once... I can confirm that this is true. I'm not even joking we had insanely similar situations to this one

[dabradmp]

Haha something funny also happened to me in an escape room. We were doing a thing to find a code for a padlock and we struggled for like 15 minutes. At one point the voice on speaker told us the code to enter and it was the one that we were entering for 15 minutes. A tiny girl with giant glasses entered the room and came to see what the issue was. She took a look at the padlock, turn to the camera and screamed "Brandon! That's the lunchroom padlock you idiot" and he replied "a padlock is a padlock Cindy" lol. We got a full refund haha

[HexafuI]

It would be so obvious and they still wouldn’t get it

[ChibiKami]

apply slight pressure to the lock, turn tumblers until they click into place. Works on every lock of that type. Solved with zero clues

[WilliamWizer]

some people wouldn't escape a escape room even if the door was already open.

[darthhorrorHD]

your content reminds me of late 2000s to early 2010s and i love it

[someweirdstuff]

I find it funny how 8+2+3+5 is actually 18 instead of 17

[BottlenoseTheSeaWing]

I know. When the code is conveniently right there and it feels too easy.

[spooky_boi]

As a game master, this couldn’t be more accurate

[rosannefaerwing]

As someone who worked as a Game's Master for a Escape Room.... This feels accurate except usually there isn't that one who is on the same wavelength as you, they are all like this >.<

[kahvipaputyyppi]

Went to escape room with my family once. We had a thing that we hadn't used yet so I tested it on every puzzle and I used a lot of time with it, only to be told afterwards that we had already solved the puzzle accidentally without the thing.

[Mariorox]

I've had the opposite of this, where I ended up accidentally solving an endgame puzzle by overthinking a collection of letters which conveniently had the last lock code. Guy running it had to come in and be like "nonono, that comes later"

I was too clever for them

[Nintenblox]

I’ve been to only one escape room ever. It began with handcuffing us all to each other so we had to find the key

[drdreidle]

I like they even wrong with the sum of the digits lol