Beat Any Escape Room- 10 proven tricks and tips

10 tips to dominate any Escape room!

I visited Dr. Scott Nicholson in Brantford, ON Canada since he is the world expert in Escape Room design. After meeting with him for a day here are the 10 tips I came away with to beat any escape room:

1. Think simple
2. Searching
3. Organize your stuff
4. Focus on what is stopping you
5. Team roles
6. Lock types
7. Code types
8. Written clues
9. Look for patterns
10. Your guide is your friend

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[Mallyx]

i heard that you can escape in less than 1 minute by having a panic attack in the corner.

[videoarchiving]

Sitting here in an escape room with my family crouded around my iphone watching this video, thanks.

[Nikiix]

As someone who works at an escape room, I can confirm that all of these tips are valid and EXTREMELY helpful! I already tell customers some of these, but I'll definitely be telling them the rest now!
Another tip I use is to not be afraid to ask for hints. At my job, we give unlimited, so people are usually more willing to ask for help. But even if you're limited and you're really stuck, some times one clue is all you need to continue the room.

[kevinpurvis]

My wife and I did an escape room for our anniversary. I showed her this video before we went in. All these tips came in handy and we escaped with 2 seconds to spare. The room even had a few red herrings. Huge fan of all your videos. Keep up the great work 👍

[TopGarfieldEnthusiast]

*casually watches in quarantine with no chance of going to an escape room*

[diamondinvr]

I went to an escape room. Found a key and it broke inside the lock. I sat there for 10 minutes before the staff came in and asked me why I wasn't doing anything. They had to get a lock cutter for me to get through to the next part. It was fun

[echofrost]

1. Think simple, a well designed escape room won’t be that complicated
2. Search once you enter the room, but search carefully so you don’t mess things up
3. Organize your stuff, make sure you aren’t redoing clues
4. Focus on stops, you can do this, don’t think otherwise (work backwards and pull back your thinking)
5. Team roles, project manager, and certain people for certain clues
6. Lock types, know which lock is which and which codes they need
7. Code types, make sure you know short and long lines are braille
8. Written clues, look for abnormal patterns in writing
9. Look for patterns, this literally explains itself
10. Your guide is your friend, listen to instructions so you don’t royally mess something up

[BeeDenver]

I had one room that had a difficult (to me) math problem that I couldn’t get. The room master said “PEMDAS!”. I screamed, “I LITERALLY FAILED MATH”

[vcrpnff]

me: *disassembles electrical outlet and dies*
friend: the clue is in the dead body

[mayaschutz]

* watches this alone in my room with no escape rooms even remotely near my area*

[CameronMetrejean]

4:09 🔐 Hey, I work at an Escape Room and I have to say, it’s actually kinda frustrating when people put all the locks in a pile, because when we have to reset the room we now have to match the locks with where they go. If some locks look similar we have to pray that they didn’t scramble the lock afterwards otherwise it’s really easy to mix them up and put the wrong lock somewhere. Grouping other items you’ve used is fine but with locks you’re better off just leaving the lock in the hasp after you unlatch it.

[AThingProbably]

3:17 actually one time I went to an escape room the staff were explaining the rules and said a rule which was "the pinky rule" if you could move something with your pinky it was a clue and they mentioned that one time people disassembled the air conditioner thinking it was a clue.

[l_ilypad]

How many of you actually wanted to see them actually escaping out of an escape room?

[cmo]

I was in a room once, that had a home trainer bike in it. Me and my group were convinced something would happen if we would use it, like a light starting to shine or a curtain going up (revealing something). I literally biked for about 15 minutes, but nothing happened. It was just there as a red herring. We did eventually escape the room tho

[MCHuang]

Final solve for an escape room I did was a number lock. To get the number, we had to solve a math equation, which we found by turning off the lights to the room and shining two different laser pointers at specific angles from two different spots in the room, and the various mirrors create the said math equation. Finding the laser pointers, where to put them, what angle to put them at, all required separate series of puzzles on their own.

[unexplainableobjects]

i once went to an escape room, and on the bottom of a mug it said "made in china" and that was a clue

[kiblord]

Tip: if there’s a painting, walk through it.

[Sleuth]

Hi!
I'm interviewing for a job as a Guide, having never done an Escape Room myself. Training is provided, of course, but we are given immediate raises based on how quickly we learn the rooms.

This is an awesome guide, thank you!! I feel much more prepared going in.

[cmyvxwz]

being a canadian, I love it when he includes a travel montage to Canada. I loved seeing, gretzky something and time hortons the most Canadian thing ever. Seriously!

[robin]

I was doing an escape room and we were trying to find the key for something but then after 20 mins we realised that my dad was holding the key the whole time i was so mad lol 😂