Remote Escape Game Review: Are You Good in Solving Tricky Puzzles?

Remote Escape Game Review: Are You Good in Solving Tricky Puzzles?

The coronavirus pandemic forced us to stay indoors to avoid contracting a deadly virus. And staying indoors means limited fun and learning compared to the activity you can do before the pandemic.

 

People were prohibited from going to places (like an art museum, escape rooms, and other recreational but educational hubs) that spark curiosity, new learnings, and experiences. However, this should not be an excuse why you can’t have a mental exercise that your brain needs, especially if you’re working at home doing monotonous work.

If there’s a kind of activity that allows you to stay active, happy, and healthy (because mental health is as important as physical health), a remote escape game can pose the same mental exercise that physical escape rooms provide.

Let us walk you through how online escape rooms can provide you a remote escape game experience like no other.

What is a Remote Escape Game?

A remote escape game provides an escape room experience while at the comforts of your home. The virtual escape room features a fresh and exciting format that resembles the physical room and gameplay.

The players are challenged to complete the game within 60 minutes or so.

 

Features of an Escape Room Game

What makes an escape room game fascinating is that it highlights the following features:

  • Themes

Remote adventures won’t be exciting without the themes. If you like treasure hunting, gold rush-themed games are some of the popular remote team adventure games people play. Temple ruins survival themes are also popular in remote escape games because it also gives you that adrenaline rush when facing adverse circumstances during the game.

 

  • Mind-boggling puzzles

Mind-boggling puzzles make the escape room fun and memorable because it gives you that feeling of self-accomplishment from solving mysteries to unlocking hidden clues with the help of your intelligence and collaborative work with friends.

 

  • Multiple rooms

According to a new study, when a person encounters new and diverse experiences regularly, it promotes positive emotions. It makes a person feel happier, relaxed, and in a good mood. When you play escape games with multiple room set design, it allows you to have different experiences in various settings and situations. Each room may contain a different set of challenges. Thus, there’ll be no dull moments when you’re in the remote escape game.

 

  • Lock and keys

One scenario that makes gold rush-themed escape games exciting is the lock and keys challenges. It tests your judgments and critical thinking while under pressure. You can also encounter such game experience on games that make you play as an intelligence agent of a secret organization.

 

  • Hidden and locked doors

Hidden and locked doors are something that makes an escape room thrilling and suspenseful. The gameplay makes the players be good with their decision-making and be attentive to their surroundings. This is because anything in the room could be the key to their survival or a potential cause of their downfall.

 

Benefits of Playing Escape Games

Playing escape games not only breaks the monotony in your daily life. It also provides you the following benefits:

 

  • Improve memory capability

Reading the game guide, solving the puzzles, unlocking hidden clues, and making decisions while under pressure – all of these features of the escape game contribute to the development of your cognitive thinking and improvement of your memory capability.

 

  • Refine social and communication skills

As you play the online game with your team members, you communicate with them about the strategies that can help your group finish and win the game. Likewise, it enhances your relationship with your colleague and improves your communication skills.

 

  • It stimulates the senses

When you’re in the escape game, you tend to always be in an alert mode for any danger you might encounter. Escape games allow you to become observant and attentive because everything in the game can either break or make you.

 

  • Feels a sense of accomplishment

Remote adventure games give you a sense of accomplishment, especially if you manage to complete the game with high scores. It boosts your confidence because you’ve learned a new experience while playing the escape game. Thus, it’s much easier to deal with problems that require creative thinking.

 

Best Possible Applications of the Escape Game

An escape game isn’t only for a mobile device or desktop computer that you play at home. It can also be played and set up for the following events, such as:

  • Remote Team Building
  • Online Team Events
  • Hangouts
  • Family Events
  • Birthdays

 

Latest Remote Adventures Escape Room: The Pegasus Project

The Pegasus Project is a must-try online escape game if solving tricky puzzles, decoding secret messages, and unlocking hidden clues excites you most. If you are looking for partnership possibilities, we’re happy to offer you a free demo.

 

 

The Pegasus Project on desktop computer and laptop

 

 

Premise

The premise of the escape game, The Pegasus Project, revolves around an intelligence agent team (we recommend 3-5 players) sent by the W.I.S.E organization. An introduction video will give you a bit of the context of what is happening, which is something that gives a Mission: Impossible vibe.

The mission team will be sent to rescue an agent who went missing in action while investigating the mysterious death of three scientists that are working for Spider Tech Corporation. At the same time, reveal the conspiracies of the shady corporation.

 

Game Features

The Pegasus Project is more than an escape room experience because it keeps us immersed in its gameplay and puzzle-solving features. You won’t need a game guide for this type of game. Even though it’s an escape game, it has unique features that you can only find in this latest instalment from Cluetivity, such as:

  • Game customization

It’s the perfect game for remote team building and online events for B2B and B2C because you can customize the game according to your preferred cases and target groups.

  • No programming needed

When you subscribe to use The Pegasus Project for important events, you won’t need to program or code the game. The assigned Cluetivity Support Team will provide you the full game. You can be the game host of your customized game.

  • Playable by 2 – 2,000+ players in real-time

Whether you’re hosting a remote team building for your company or using the remote adventure escape game to entice your online event participant, joining and playing with big crowds is never an issue. The Pegasus Project can be played by unlimited number of users simultaneously.

 

Gameplay

The Pegasus Project gameplay involves the players as a summoned field agent of the W.I.S.E organization. The team will infiltrate the Spider Tech Corporation and reveal the shady business that these corporations are hiding in their sleeves.

During the game, the players will be solving varied riddles and decode secret messages to unlock hidden and locked doors to proceed to the next room. The gameplay resembles its prequel, Operation Mindfall, an outdoor escape game counterpart. The players must keep constant communication with the team and play together in order to complete the mission.

But beware. It’s not just a simple escape room because the online version will surely leave you shocked and surprised in every unexpected twist and turns you’ll meet along the way.

 

Verdict

If you’re looking for a top-notch online game for teams, the Pegasus Project is perfect! It can be played between friends or colleagues. Each team member will have tons of fun solving tricky puzzles while beating the time to complete the mission. To get started, visit the Cluetivity website, fill up the contact form and a Spy Agent member will get in touch wisely.

Escape Room Themes: All Beginnings Are Bloody Simple

Escape Room Themes: All Beginnings Are Bloody Simple

Whether in prison, as a detective or on the run from zombies: ideas for escape room themes come quickly. But not all of them inspire the players. We’ll show you a list of the most popular scenarios and talk to an escape room owner who has designed her rooms completely by herself.

“Our escape room themes come about naturally,” says Danièle Ronck. “But thinking through the whole scenario with all the puzzles is hard work.” The director of 216k Escape Room in Luxembourg develops all ideas herself with her partner Marc Bernard Francois Rausch.

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Her rooms “Release Miss Rose”, “Modern Art Gallery” and “Haunted” can be divided into the categories “Police/Crime”, “Magic” and “Supernatural”. But which escape room themes are there anyway? And how popular are they?

Escape Room Themes sorted by popularity among Escape Room Enthusiasts

  • Police/Crime
  • Sherlock
  • Spy
  • Tomb/Ancient Civ
  • Supernatural
  • Serial Killer
  • Science
  • Space
  • Prison
  • Carnival
  • Historical
  • Music
  • Pirate
  • Library
  • Heist/Thieves
  • Medical/Asylum
  • Vampire
  • Airplane
  • Bomb Diffusion
  • Western
  • Office
  • Military
  • Adult 18+
  • Horror
  • Zombie
  • Dream
  • Magic
  • Themelesss

The data comes from the Escape Room Enthusiast Survey 2019, in which people from all over the world participated. If you examine the data by region, you will find that preferences differ.

Top 5 in North America

  1. Space
  2. Tomb/Ancient Civ
  3. Supernatural
  4. Spy
  5. Science

Top 5 in Western Europe

  1. Tomb/Ancient Civ
  2. Supernatural
  3. Space
  4. Sherlock
  5. Police/Crime

Top 5 in Eastern Europe

  1. Tomb/Ancient Civ
  2. Sherlock
  3. Spy
  4. Supernatural
  5. Police/Crime

Top 5 in Asia (excluding China)

  1. Police/Crime
  2. Sherlock
  3. Spy
  4. Tomb/Ancient Civ
  5. Universe

Top 5 in China

  1. Police/Crime
  2. Sherlock
  3. Spy
  4. Serial Killer
  5. Prison

As if this selection wasn’t enough, you can also create seasonal escape room themes for events like Easter, Halloween and Christmas. But be careful: Seasonal escape rooms are usually only used for a few weeks a year. So you should check carefully if there is a good balance between effort and profit.

Escape Rooms from Harry Potter to SAW

Movie heroes are no longer just given offshoots in video games or as action figures. The Harry Potter Escape Room, for example, is no longer fiction but reality. And for horror fans there is the official SAW Escape Room.

But caution is advised: Before you build your own escape room based on a film, you should clarify all legal questions. Because names like Harry Potter and SAW are protected by trademark law. That means you can’t use them just like that.

Instead of entering into long negotiations with the film studios, it is advisable to develop escape rooms based on Harry Potter or SAW without mentioning the name of the franchise. You could think of a scenario in a magic school where the young magicians are locked into a mysterious room. Or even in a meat packing plant where a crazy mass murderer is waiting.

Harry Potter Escape Room

Which themes do Escape Rooms really use?

After we have looked at all possible escape room scenarios, it would be interesting to know which topics escape room operators really offer. The Escape Room Industry Survey provides information on this.

The theme most popular with escape room owners is the mystery scenario, followed by fantasy-based themes (like superheroes), science/lab and horror.

Military, steampunk, police/crime (such as pulling off a robbery, getting rid of evidence), school (finding notes on an exam, escaping and so on), playroom and cartoon/anime were the least popular themes among owners.

This is an interesting finding, because topics like “performing a robbery” are quite popular among escape room players (see results above). Science/laboratory and horror on the other hand are not in the top 5.

The decision making process: Which Escape Room topic should it be?

You now have a pretty accurate overview of the common escape room scenarios. But which one do you want to implement?

Inspiration for new escape room ideas can be found in many places – whether in books, movies or elsewhere. You can make the decision easier if you look back on your own experiences. Danièle Ronck opened her room “Modern Art Gallery” partly because she is an artist herself.

“Since I am an artist, Marc and I decided that we could include all the art objects that had accumulated over time in one room. This is how the idea of an art gallery came about. Then we refined the idea further, invented an exciting story about it and hid secrets in some of my works.”

Also important: a competitive analysis. “If there are already three prison rooms in your city, I would not build another one,” Danièle says. “Unless you are absolutely sure that your prison is much, much better than the others.” If not, she would leave it alone and choose another subject.

Since I am an artist, Marc and I decided that we could include all the art objects that had accumulated over time in one room. This is how the idea of an art gallery came about. Then we refined the idea further, invented an exciting story about it and hid secrets in some of my works.

Danièle Ronck

Founder, 216k Escape Room

Also important: a competitive analysis. “If there are already three prison rooms in your city, I would not build another one,” Danièle says. “Unless you are absolutely sure that your prison is much, much better than the others.” If not, she would leave it alone and choose another subject.

Was gehört alles zu einem Thema?

Habt ihr euch für ein Escape Room Thema entschieden, geht es an die Details. Hier kommen die eingangs von Danièle erwähnten Herausforderungen auf euch zu, euer Szenario mit Leben zu füllen.

„Die Phase, in der der Ablauf des ganzen Szenarios und die dazugehörigen Rätsel erarbeitet werden müssen, ist der anstrengendste Teil“, sagt die 52-Jährige. „Die Geschichte muss Sinn ergeben, der Ablauf muss sehr genau angepasst werden und die Rätsel müssen natürlich zum Thema passen.“

Für die Escape Room Rätsel bauen Danièle und Marc oft selbst Teile um oder ganz selbst. Vor allem die technischen Rätsel bereiten sehr viel Arbeit und müssen immer wieder getestet und verbessert werden, bis dann alles so funktioniert, wie sie es haben wollen.

Am Ende dieses Prozesses solltet ihr Folgendes haben:

  • eine vollständige Geschichte
  • einen Plan über den Ablauf eures Raums
  • Rätsel- und Dekorationsgegenstände
  • die Elektronik für euren Raum (oder zumindest einen Überblick über das Escape Room Zubehör, das ihr anschaffen müsst)

Die Escape Room Enthusiast Umfrage 2019 ergab übrigens, dass Spielern die Rätsel und ein reibungsloser sowie logischer Spielablauf am wichtigsten an einem Escape Room sind. Besondere Hightech-Features waren ihnen hingegen nicht wichtig.

Images from 216k Escape Room

Escape Room selbst bauen oder kaufen?

Ihr wisst nun eine ganze Menge über Themen für Escape Rooms. Aber eine wichtige Frage ist noch ungeklärt: Lohnen sich die Entwicklung eigener Ideen und der Bau eines eigenen Escape Rooms? Oder kann ich nicht einfach das Angebot eines Zulieferers in Anspruch nehmen oder einem Escape Room Franchise beitreten?

Das kommt auf euren individuellen Fall an. Ganz grundlegend gesagt, empfiehlt sich der Bau eines eigenen Fluchtraums vor allem, wenn ihr eine gewisse Leidenschaft und Affinität für das Thema mitbringt. Außerdem ist handwerkliches Geschick von Vorteil.

Seht ihr Escape Rooms hingegen nur als Geschäft an, fehlt euch vielleicht die Leidenschaft, um einen eigenen Raum zu entwickeln.

Vorteile eines selbstgebauten Fluchtraums

  • Entwicklung und Bau machen viel Spaß (Leidenschaft fürs Thema vorausgesetzt)
  • Euer Raum ist wirklich einzigartig
  • Ihr kennt alle Details, auch die Schwächen, was beispielsweise Reparaturen erleichtern kann
  • Ihr könnt jederzeit Anpassungen vornehmen

Nachteile eines selbstgebauten Fluchtraums

  • Ihr müsst euch tief in die Materie einarbeiten
  • Auf dem Weg von der Idee bis zum fertigen Raum können unerwartete Hürden die Bauzeit verlängern
  • Ihr seid bei Problemen/Herausforderungen auf euch allein gestellt

Eine Mischung aus eigenen Ideen und vorgefertigten Szenarien bietet unter anderem die Outdoor Escape Game Software von Cluetivity. Die einsatzbereiten Spiele Operation Mindfall, Das Magische Portal und The Last Secret könnt ihr mit wenig Aufwand an eure Region und Bedürfnisse anpassen und so innerhalb kürzester Zeit ein lukratives Zusatzgeschäft aufbauen.

Danièle und Marc sind bereits seit 2017 Partner von Cluetivity. „Ein wichtiger Punkt bei der Zusammenarbeit ist für uns, dass wir dank Cluetivity größere Gruppen annehmen können. In unseren 3 Räumen ist die Teilnehmerzahl auf 18 Personen beschränkt. Mit unseren 8 Actionpacks von Operation Mindfall können hingegen bis zu 80 Leute gleichzeitig spielen. Das eröffnet uns ganz neue Möglichkeiten!“

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Escape Room Waiver: Better Safe Than Sorry (with downloadable template)

Escape Room Waiver: Better Safe Than Sorry (with downloadable template)

It is rarely read and can still act as a life insurance for your company: the Escape Room waiver. But what is it used for at all? And why is it so complicated to write it? We clarify the most important questions and offer a template for download.

Designing rooms, tinkering with puzzles and leading games is a lot of fun. Less fun for most escape room operators is the administrative part of their work – but it is just as important for the long-term success of the company.

Whether you want to start an escape room or are already working in the industry: You should protect your business from potential lawsuits. That’s what the escape room waiver is used for.

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What is a waiver?

A waiver is a contractual agreement that excludes or limits the liability of a person in certain cases. In the case of an escape room, for example, this means that you, as the operator, cannot be held liable if a player is injured on your premises.

Have you not yet taken care of your escape room waiver yet? Don’t worry, you are not alone in this.

However, every escape room operator should formulate a waiver and have it signed by their players. Otherwise, in the worst case scenario, a visitor could injure herself, sue you, and you could face a heavy fine.

We all know that escape rooms usually do not make millions of dollars in winnings. Therefore, a penalty payment could mean the end of the game. An escape room waiver is like life insurance for your company.

3 examples of when legal action can be taken

At this point we would like to expressly point out that we are not lawyers and that this does not constitute legal advice. Our goal is simply to make you aware of the importance of a waiver for escape rooms.

While it may seem unlikely to you that customers will be injured in your rooms, there is definitely a risk of injury. After all, players are under stress and may be careless.

 

  • Suppose you have an escape room where players need to lift a heavy item. A player tries to move that item and sprains his back.
  • In one of your scenarios, a dark, narrow tunnel connects two rooms. One of the players gets a panic attack in the passage.
  • You have a sharp edge or a pointed object in your escape room, and a player gets hurt.

What does a waiver NOT cover me for?

Without a waiver for your escape room, it can get expensive for you in the mentioned cases. A waiver protects you against many accidents – but not all. Not to be excluded is the liability for:

  • intentional wrong or grossly negligent acts by you or your staff,
  • in cases of injury to life, body or health,
  • the violation of essential contractual obligations and
  • aspects that are excluded in the product liability law.

Please note that these points may differ depending on your country of origin.

Are you looking for new escape room ideas? Check out our post featuring 5 Youtube channels with great inspirational videos.

What should an escape room waiver contain in any case?

In your escape room waiver you should exclude the most important and most common reasons for complaints. You don’t have to name every case specifically, but you should remain rather general in the wording to exclude as many cases as possible.

The basic idea is that your customers confirm with their signature that they are aware that they are taking a certain risk by playing.

The players must confirm that:

  • they know that an escape room may require a certain amount of physical activity and effort,
  • it is impossible for you as the operator to foresee any of their actions and take safety measures against any risk of injury,
  • they are responsible for their own safety and it is in their own interest not to take any unforeseeable risks, and
  • they are aware of the risks in an escape room and they voluntarily participate.

Please note that these points may vary depending on your country of origin.

How do I write a waiver?

Preferably with a lawyer. Because waivers are usually formulated in a very covert manner and are difficult for non-lawyers to understand. It is therefore better to seek professional help.

To give you an idea of what a waiver for escape rooms should look like, we have prepared a template for you. However, we would like to point out once more that we are not lawyers and we recommend that you adapt our template to your company together with a lawyer or with a waiver letter wrting service.

Interesting side fact: If you run an escape room as a franchise, you usually get a waiver template from your franchisor.

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What are the pitfalls?

This is another reason why you should consult a lawyer when writing a waiver for your escape room: There are several pitfalls. Probably more than in the classic video game “Pitfall!“.

If you really have to go to court because of an accident in your premises and there are wordings in your waiver that can be interpreted to your disadvantage, then an opposing attorney will do so. Regardless of your business.

It can become serious if:

  • your escape room waiver is incomplete.
  • Your waiver should cover too much and is unspecific. It is important that you mainly refer to activities that actually take place on your premises.
  • Your waiver contains ambiguous wording. As indicated above, it is often crucial how a particular clause is worded in order to stand up in court.
  • Your security measures were not sufficient. If there are really serious flaws in your escape room that endanger the safety of customers, a waiver will not save you.

Not only does it sound complicated, it actually is. Therefore, not even a perfectly worded escape room waiver does exempt you from taking out additional insurance to protect your business, such as liability insurance. In many cases the liability insurance will cover expenses for damages.

Signing the escape room waiver: paper or digital?

In the early days of escape rooms many customers had to sign a printed waiver. This resulted in thick folders with documents that no one looked at later. But there was simply no other option.

In the meantime, the process is mostly digital. Often customers do not even have to sign a document, but confirm that they are aware of the risks when ordering their tickets. All that is needed is a tick in the order process. In this article about Escape Room Software we have summarized the most interesting offers for you.

If your booking system does not support the integration of the waiver, you can also present the document to the customer digitally on a tablet. This saves a lot of time and space compared to the paper version – printing and filing are therefore not necessary.

Once you have completed the annoying but important wording of the waiver for your escape room, there is nothing to stop you from having fun designing rooms, tinkering with puzzles and giving customers a great time playing your games.

5 Brilliant Marketing Tips for Reopening Your Escape Room

5 Brilliant Marketing Tips for Reopening Your Escape Room

With which marketing strategy for the reopening of your Escape Room or leisure facility do you reach your potential customers? How do you turn website visitors into buyers? Find out what tricks you can use to improve your business load and why you shouldn’t rely solely on social media in your communication.

In many countries, governments are easing the contact restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Escape Rooms, trampoline halls and lasertag providers may open their doors again. However, strict hygiene rules still apply – such as wearing a mouth and nose protector – which discourages many potential customers.

What can you do to even inform your fans that your store is open again? And how can you dispel their concerns? With the following five marketing tips for reopening your Escape Room or leisure facility after Corona, we want to help you succeed.

To boost your sales again, you can also make your customers great additional offers. If you want to expand your business with outdoor, mobile and online escape games, please ask us for a non-binding offer.

Communicate where your fans are

Of course: Facebook and Instagram are among the first platforms on which you should get in touch with your fans.

You can use several posts to point out the upcoming reopening. On the day of the reopening after Corona, you should do another post.

Standard posts in your timeline are not everything: You should also use the “Story” features. Stories are especially promising because they appear at the top of both the Facebook and Instagram apps, before the regular posts. This way they get a lot of attention.

For your timeline posts, photos of your locations are suitable. In the Stories, many users prefer videos. You can put yourself in front of the smartphone camera and invite your fans to come to your shop or shoot short videos in your Escape Rooms.

The design of your photos and videos is secondary. The most important thing is that you get the attention of your fans and followers.

But since many people are still unsure, it doesn’t hurt to point out your hygiene measures, says Harald Geiger, founder of Secret Room in Austria. He reopened his business on May 29th.

Communicate the Corona measures transparently with your customers. Pay attention to cleanliness and disinfection and show your customers that you care about their safety. This way you can get their trust and give them a sense of security.

Harald Geiger

Founder, Secret Room, Austria

Use paid measures to get more attention

Facebook and Instagram also offer advertising possibilities. As an escape room operator or leisure provider, you have probably already experimented with this feature.

For reopening your escape room after the Corona crisis ads are almost inevitable, because with organic posts on social media you usually reach a maximum of 10 percent of your followers. With advertisements, on the other hand, you not only reach your existing fanbase, but also users who have never heard of you before.

In the Facebook Ad Center, for example, you can highlight your company locally and define your target group by including or excluding demographic data, interests and behaviour. With just a few dollars a day, you can reach thousands of people.

“Spend more time in groundbreaking advertising that attracts customers’ attention and shows that you are creative and motivated,” says Geiger.

In addition to Facebook and Instagram, Secret Room also placed ads in a local newspaper for their reopening after the Corona lockdown.

Retarget your website visitors

Another option to get users’ attention is retargeting. With retargeting, you address people who have visited your website before. Your target group will then see your ads on other online portals. With geo-targeting you can show the ads only to people from your area.

To create retargeting ads, you usually need a fee-based online tool. 

Give your customers something special (not necessarily a discount)

With a discount – of course – you can increase the demand for your Escape Games. But since most customers only come to you once to play an escape room, you should think twice about the discount.

“My motto is: added value instead of discount,” says Harald Geiger. “We prefer to offer the customers added value in the form of a free drink or some other goodies.”

Send your former customers an e-mail

What may sound stale can be very effective: Newsletters are back in style.

Over the years, you probably have collected contact data from countless customers, including e-mail addresses. With the consent of your former visitors, now is the ideal time to use this data.

Write an e-mail to your customers and let them know that your Escape Room is open again. Offer them a special incentive to come back and visit you, if necessary.

We have collected many more Escape Room Marketing tips for you here.

And what’s next?

Yet nobody knows when a vaccine against Corona will be available. Therefore the escape room and leisure industry still has to live with restrictions.

But thanks to the easing of restrictions, business is slowly picking up again. Harald Geiger from Secret Room still has some general tips to help escape room and leisure providers make the most of the crisis.

“To keep our fans happy during closing time, we posted little puzzles on our Facebook page. When you’re open again, be careful with the disinfectant. It attacked the coat on all our furniture, so we had to sand and reseal it.”

See more tips on making and maintaining Escape Room props here.

Geiger also advises all escape room and leisure providers to diversify their business. “I think this crisis has shown that a broad product line is an advantage.”

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Outdoor Escape Games can be a useful addition. They will increase the occupancy rate of your Escape Room after reopening to Corona and beyond.

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The 5 Best Youtube Playlists for New Escape Room Ideas

The 5 Best Youtube Playlists for New Escape Room Ideas

We’ve searched all over YouTube to find the best videos with ideas for escape room puzzles and decoration. As a result, we found 5 playlists, giving fantastic inspiration, instructions and insights into escape room manufacturing. 

The Technology Behind the Escape Room Ideas

How do you build microcontrollers? How do you integrate light dependent resistors into your Escape Room puzzles? And what do you need to create a pincode puzzle yourself?

Alastair Atchinson clarifies these and other questions in “Playful Technology”. His Youtube channel is a great place to go for those who want to implement their escape room ideas themselves.

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Alastair explains in detail what equipment you need, how to connect switches, cables etc. and anything else you need to know.

However, you’ll need to take some time to look through his playlist Escape Room Tech Puzzles. Some of his videos are over 30 minutes long. Nevertheless, you will learn a a lot on his channel!

The Top Dog Among the Escape Room Manufacturers

Of course Indestroom should not be missing from this list. The manufacturer of turnkey escape rooms presents its gadgets, puzzles and decoration in a Youtube playlist comprising more than 350 videos. You’ll get lots of ideas for your own Escape Rooms. But of course there are no instructions to build those things on your own.

Manufacturing Props With Passion and Detailed Instructions

Great instructions to recreate replicas and costumes from famous video games, TV shows and movies: Punished Props Academy wants to empower its followers to improve their crafting skills. You probably might even be able to get one or two ideas for your Escape Room on their channel.

On the YouTube channel you will find several playlists, including one for beginners, one for advanced and one for experts. In addition to the instructions, the playlists also contain tutorials on the use of tools, for example a laser cutter.

Special extra: On its website the Punished Props Academy offers free blueprints for download.

Escape Room and Haunted House Products

Evilusions builds Escape Room props and also entire rooms. In his Youtube Playlist, the provider offers insights into his products.

Similar to Indestroom you can collect ideas for your Escape Room or contact the manufacturer if you like his props.

Important if you watch the videos from Evilusions: Turn on your sound! Otherwise you might miss the owner explaining how the puzzles work.

Escape Room Ideas also for Children

EcoDecor presents its puzzles and props in short videos. You can collect more Escape Room ideas in the playlist or of course buy the puzzles from the manufacturer.

What did we like in particular? A puzzle with a pink monster, marshmallows and a telephone.

Would you like to know which escape room themes are most popular among players? Just head over to our blog post and find out.