Friday, May 22, 2020

Weirdest Stuff Escape Room Employees Have Seen


Someone on AskReddit got a fun thread going about the weirdest and most outrageous stuff that escape room employees have seen. As it turns out, many of us are apt to do completely absurd, and entirely incorrect things when trying to escape a room. Shoutout to that one person who dug through tons of sand to dig out a wire, and then tried chewing through it. How could someone think that that was the move? Unreal. 

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Text - ThatsBalderdash • 12h There was a room with a bed in it. Instead of continuing to follow the clues, two guests proceeded to put themselves to bed and then take a nap for half the time. They weren't hurting anything, so I let it happen. Before they left, they remade the bed and tucked two of our skeletons inside.

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Text - escaperoommaster • 14h The story that comes to mind is a group of Swedish construction workers genuinely thought the solution to the puzzle was to lift the door off its hinges Although a more common experience would be explaining to customers that the games aren't as fun when intoxicated, and then have them complain that the game was way too hard. That stopped when we started adding a histogram of every players score on the souvenir photos, and their embarrassing times were way longer tha

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Text - JigglyPumpkin • 12h Was in an escape room with some friends and a bunch of strangers. Premise of the room is that you've been kidnapped by a serial killer and you've got to get yourself out of his basement before he comes back. So it's super creepy and gross. A few clues in, we find the key to a 7' tall locker. One of the guys I don't know goes to open it. I'm standing right behind him. He unlocks it and just as he reaches for the handle, the door starts to open from the inside. We were s

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Text - pocketnotebook • 13h Not an employee but my SO's old neighbour worked at an escape room and we went to try it out, it was a lot of fun but we finally got the lock off this big wooden door for access into the second half of the room, and for some reason neither of us decided to try the door. We kept looking for clues for around ten minutes until, over the walkie, the guy straight up told us to pull the door and you can tell he was sick of it

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Text - DJ-Wallaby • 13h The group of guests managed to pull an entire twin bed, mattress, frame and all, through a thin passageway and into the final room through the secret door. They thought it would be part of the puzzle. It was not.

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Text - VillainousStrumpet • 15h A couple broke up in the room I was running... I then gave them loads of hints so they could get out asap

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Text - gloomyvicious • 15h My mother and her friends went to an escape room one night for a girls night out, and while they were solving the room one of them elected to just fiddle around with the final lock on the door which was a 4-digit code, and miraculously unlocked it and walked out.

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Text - IzarkkiaTarj • 14h I asked an Escape Room employee this once. Our room had a big metal safe. One guy who played in that room just picked up and carried the safe around the entire time.

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Text - unnaturalorder • 17h I went to a place with my family and, while we went into our room, we saw some employees working on fixing another room. Apparently someone from a group before ours decided the only way out was to shoulder charge the door, which wasn't all that strong, and ripped the entire thing out of the frame. I guess they technically succeeded.

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Text - Portmanlovesme • 13h We had z a group that, within about 30 seconds, worked out the code because one of the guys figured out a clue from the first two sentences from the video. They were pissed off

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Text - Georgia_M8 • 13h This is not super relevant to the question but a few years ago I went to an escape room to meet a Tinder date for the first time. He had paid for the session online and told me to get there at 7. He just .. didn't show up?? I ended up completing the escape room with one of the employees there, because she felt bad for me and the session was already booked lol.

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Text - unclear_warfare • 16h Best escape room story I ever heard was someone flying home for Thanksgiving while his sister had persuaded their parents to try out an escape room together. They arranged it with the staff so he was waiting for them in the second room. Not that crazy, but a fun story

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Text - ronster123 • 13h Honestly most of the odd stuff that happens is because us employees forgot to reset one part of the room. The worst was when this new employee reset a room for the first time by himself. He locked all of the locks, but never actually locked the door of each safe to itself, so the customers were able to open everything like there were no locks at all. He eventually became assistant manager at our store. We were desperate.

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Text - OverlyAdorable • 13h I did one and l'm partially colourblind and one colour I can't see is yellow. Early on, I found (and announced) the word "Eight" written on the blinds on the door in white. The last lock was a colour/number based lock (match the colours to the numbers) and a hint told us which ones we should've found (including white and yellow). We had two white numbers, one we thought was a clue to something else as it worked. After 10 minutes, we finally shouted out for a hint and

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Text - LondonJam3116 • 17h 1 Award Someone dug through six tonnes of sand on the floor to follow a live electrical cable which she then tried to chew through. Edit: this was after being told multiple times there were no clues under the sand.

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Text - Kahzgul • 12h I don't know if this was one of the weirdest, but my friends and I turned off the escape room. There was a box on the wall with a pinhole in it. In a chest, we found a hat. On the hat was a hatpin. The hatpin fit perfectly into the hole in the box! Inside the box was a big red switch. We flipped the switch. Suddenly every single secret door opened, the lights turned on, the video projector switched from showing spooky words to showing a windows desktop, and the music and sou

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Text - cryptic-coyote • 11h I did an escape room with my middle school friends once. There were seven of us. We were all stupid so we took way too long to figure out the puzzles (but it probably didn't help that every member of the party was handcuffed right after entering the room and we couldn't find the key). In the last twenty minutes of the game we started getting desperate, and our game master told us that if we could do something to impress him he'd give us another hint. We made a "human

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Text - ReleaseTheBeeees • 15h I built one for the guys who made Sherlock. Reading the other answers here you can imagine what the early stages of being open were like, with both idiot customers and staff who were still getting used to everything

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