“Moral of the story: Brunch and escape rooms do not mix.”
Here’s what people shared:
1.
“A huge group came into our escape room.
Halfway through the game, the cameras went out.
We managed to facilitate the game with audio only, but the group still did absolutely horribly.
They barely made it through half the room.
They didnt even bother with most of the puzzles.”
u/cowboylore
2. u/Tangboy50000
3.
“We had a group from work go to an escape room for team-building.
They got into the elevator, and it stopped working.
They ended up getting really hot, and one of the dudes started panicking.
He took off his shirt while in the elevator.
Basically, they spent the whole time debating.
Then, they waited another hour for the fire department.
They got out and had to come back to work.
Team-building activities have been on hold since.
No one talks about naked Brian.”
u/the_amateur_
4.
“We had a group of 10-year-olds come in for a birthday party.
The adult accompanying them into the room took the walkie-talkie and refused to accept any hints.
u/BustyRucketBay
5.
“My wife pooped herself inside of an escape room.
I assumed the employees thought we’d broken up because she dashed out so quickly.
When I lost, they still asked me to take a photo…by myself.”
u/TameTasmanian
6.
“The escape room I worked at had a real fire alarm inside the room.
Im sure you could see how this ended up.”
u/DieselPickles
“As a guest at an escape room, we had the opposite problem.
They had a fire alarm that was actually something you needed to pull to open a secret room.
We would have never dreamed of using it until we were explicitly told to do so.
We were quite annoyed.”
u/multicolored_me
7.
“My wife and I got stuck on a door.
We unlocked the door, then we pushed it and pulled it for, like, five minutes.
We had to ask for help.
We still solved the escape room otherwise.”
u/elvishfiend
8.
“A group of brunch-goers came to attempt our hardest room.
They had brunched thoroughly and were already very wild and immobile.
Turns out one of them snuck beers in their cargo pants and spilled it EVERYWHERE.
Ten minutes in, the game was stopped, and they were asked to leave.
Moral of the story: Brunch and escape rooms do not mix.”
u/Manejar
9.
“I somehow got into being an escape room tester, and I’ve seen some bizarre behavior.
Forty minutes of reading for this lady.”
u/MaverickDago
10.
It was the very first clue, and we were supposed to find the key.
There were codes, equations, random words, etc.
all over the four walls.
At one point, I embarrassingly thought some of the words needed to be translated into AncientGreek.
The workers on the intercom kept telling us to slow down and just look at the wall.
We kept saying, ‘We are looking at the wall!!!
The key was literally just hanging in the middle of the large wall at eye level.”
u/CalligrapherActive11
11.
“One group spent the entire time arguing and never even solved the first puzzle.”
u/fitorlki
12.
I’m colorblind."
u/MaximumZer0
13.
“Went for a friend’s girlfriend’s birthday.
She ended up basically having a meltdown and yelling at us.
u/InfSan
14.
We have a room where there are backpacks that you find with items inside.
I had to tell them that they’re supposed to open it and see what’s inside.”
I’ve seen and heard many things that I wish I could forget.
u/LilyWednesday666
15.
We just put person-sized holes in every wall and were immediately kicked out.
Were idiots, but it was bound to happen.
They just got unlucky that it was five people who can rip drywall down really fast."
u/Hour-Shake-839
16.
I suffered so much secondhand embarrassment from that.
Like dude, just play the game."
u/alwaysmyfault
17.
“A friend works at an escape room.
A group of moms come in once every few months but do not even attempt to solve anything.
They all just lay down or relax in the silence!
I think they come to ‘escape’ life for a bit.
The workers all know them, and they are lovely women who just need to escape.”
u/jersey8894
18.
Despite hints from staff, they refused to move on.
u/DataGoaz123
19.
I ended up turning the monitor off because I was so done."
u/meteoriteisthesource
20.
“We did one in NYC that was totally busted.
They prepped the room with the wrong answer key, which made it impossible.
We did eventually, but were locked out the whole time.
So, we got stuck 2030 minutes in, then just sat around.
u/captainofpizza
21.
“The least successful (not really even an attempt) was a group of completely drunk bachelors.
They did not manage to solve more than tworiddles.
One of the guys sat down on a chair and straight-up fell asleep after five minutes.
The rest stumbled around.
I was so scared that they would break something.
Worst group ever.”
u/MCMC_aka_DrStoner
22.
“PSA: Don’t do a wine tasting and then do an escape room.
One person just laid on the floor and slept the whole time.
The other tried and eventually joined her.
I didn’t know until reading other stories that the employees listened to us.
Well, I hope we gave them some good laughs.”
u/LookeyLoo81
23.
The guy running it finally came in and couldnt get it either.
He ended up giving us a screw driver to take off the side of the lock instead.
It was pretty dumb.”
u/Phraoz007
24.
“We had a work group play for team-building.
The second puzzle was to find a key to unlock a desk.
The middle compartment lifts up after you unlock it.
Now I thought surely someone would double-check this person’s work, but no.
Everyone believed them, and no one else gave the desk a try.
Thirty minutes went by, and they finally caved and asked for a clue.
I told them that desk was, in fact, unlocked; they just needed to lift it open.
They were very mad at the one person and did not make it out.”
u/JustA_Ghost103
25.
“Software engineers are the smartest fools in the whole, wide world.
u/ParticularEscape6730
26.
“We had a radio in our game that linked to a specific station using an FM transmitter.
u/bornacidgaming
27.
“I played a cowboy-themed escape room with a friend once.
She managed to pull one of the rifles off the wall and fire it.
It wasnt loaded, but made a very loud bang.
Yeah…we got in a lot of trouble (still managed to escape, though).”
But, they also weren’t going to escape on time, and they realized it.
It didn’t work.”
u/NihilisticHobbit
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