Weirdest Moments Experienced By Escape Room Employees

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mattstaff
Jul 10, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

People can become complete senseless animals when they're put into an escape room. Maybe it has something to do with the claustrophobia that can naturally ensue when you're put into a maze of sorts, and the reality of making your grand escape can be quite delayed depending on the amount of brain activity going on with the rest of your team. Hopefully these ridiculous stories from escape room employees make you feel a bit better about any potential catastrophic fails that you experienced while navigating an escape room. 

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  • 01
    Font - meuh210 · 2d We had this group of 3, the theme was an abandoned subway station. We had some flashing lights so they would see something but I forgot to switch the flip on when bringing them to the room... They never ever, turned on the lights (the button was next to the door) and spent the whole hour in almost complete darkness, only using the metro carriage headlight to check every clue they had (they were doing very well so I didn't told them to turn the lights on). Then, the same group
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    Font - SecurityShot187 · 2d I once worked at a escape room with a fake weapons armoury with a prop grenade in a glass cabinet which acted as a key to open the door out and one group came in, couldn't figure out the puzzle and then literally smashed the glass and grabbed it and escaped The room and got met with the security guard and were forced to pay for the cabinet which was expensive due to the lock being a custom. Sucks for that group I guess G Reply 4 969 3 ...
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  • 03
    Rectangle - clouds6877 · 2d Breakups. You wouldn't believe the amount of long term relationships l've seen go to a head and become destroyed but just being in a locked room with puzzles. G Reply 4 476 3 ...
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    Font - goshpenny · 2d Not an operator but a friend of mine was telling me recently about one where the final clue to open the door was in a file on the desktop of a windows computer. He's a devops and security professional, so naturally he turns off this computer, boots it into safe mode, gains access to the command line, uses that to access the files on the desktop, and solves the whole room in <5 minutes. I think the group then did the whole room properly but were pretty smug about their recor
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    Font - Stellefeder · 2d Nothing too too weird in my time as a gamemaster, but one that does stand out was the pyramid people. There was a puzzle that you solved by looking in a mirror at the right angle, to line up some markings on the mirror with markings on the ceiling. Once you have the correct word, you input it in the device and get a reward. Collect all the rewards, get out. I had a family decide that making a human pyramid was obviously the solution to this puzzle. I had to run down to th
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    Font - Fordy0401 · 2d 1 Award My SO and I were trying to break out of a jail cell. The guide said "if you get stuck, l'll say a clue. BUT.... It may not always be a helpful clue". We get stuck, ask for a clue, guide tells me to put my shoe in the toilet. I'm both gullible and trusting. G Reply t 871 3 ...
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    Font - fuzzlequeen · 1d There was one escape room that gave us a huge keyring with a million keys early on. We'd already solved the lock it went to, but were struggling to finish the other puzzles. The key item we needed to end the game was behind a lock. So when we realized we were low on time, we had one person try every key on that ring just in case. Turns out one of the keys worked, but none of them were supposed to. The operator was super confused and asked us which key so he could take it
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    Font - rbow409 · 1d Not the operator, but the escapee - we thought a half- open ceiling panel was part of the haunted house game, and devised plans to push it off. A disembodied voice on the overhead speaker mustered in their best spooky voice: "Pleeeaaaaasee do not break the ceeeeeilinggggg." Turns out it was just a regular, broken ceiling tile. In a different gameroom, the gated entryway had a panel of 3 lockers to the side of one wall. We searched the lockers for clues to "unlock" to the next
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  • 09
    Font - Tajomstvo · 2d I was in an escape room, we had gotten to the end and needed the password to a computer so we could open files on a flash drive (I don't remember why, it was something about bomb codes). The laptop was a Chromebook, and since we were running out of time I rebooted it and logged in using my own Google account and got the files open. The operator told me no one had done that before so I was pretty chuffed. G Reply 4 227 3 ...
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    Font - ChessRaven • 2d Not an operator, but I heard this story from a friend. There was a key stuck to a very strong magnet and the group had to find a way to disable the magnet. It would be impossible to pull it off with one's hands. One person in the group used a pop socket to remove the key. The escaped with less than a minute to spare. G Reply 4 79 3 ...
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    Rectangle - Lord_of_Lore_66•2d I didn't actually witness anything but the guy who gave the instructions beforehand told us all the rules. This list included "No punching holes in the wall or climbing up the ceiling". He ended off by saying "I shouldn't have to say this but I do".
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