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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i heard that you can escape in less than 1 minute by having a panic attack in the corner.
JstnXIII, nice
Strategy I use
I was laughing for 20 minutes
I can indeed confirm this works and you might get a free cookie XD
Guiness world record prepare to break
Sitting here in an escape room with my family crouded around my iphone watching this video, thanks.
Seems doubtful. Most all escape rooms prohibit the use of phones and therefore outside help
R/woooosh
I don't think you are telling the truth. You can't have a phone in a escape room it says that. Maybe you are being grounded and you locked in your room.
mutantfish r/wooosh
Tribe of the Iron Flame r/wooosh
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.
I really want to go to one. I have a question please. How many people do I go with? Is there a person who works there in the room with us?
@@cccooper472 it depends on the room. Most of the ones I've done were with 4 or 5 people and it was perfect, but I know about one were you need to have between 8 and 10 participants (that is way less common). Also, in all of the ones I've been to you only see the person working there at the beginning to explain the story and at the end when you escape and they offer you a picture
@@cccooper472 💯
@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 You are being monitored at all times when in an escape room. There is a reason why there is always a security camera inside the room(s), and that is so that the employees can monitor and offer assistance if needed.
As an escape room enthusiast, I can say that most of these tips will keep you in the room forever. They are only suitable for very basic rooms for beginners. In normal escape rooms, the puzzles can be much more difficult. Keys, codes, passwords, hints can be found in lamps, in sockets, and in the most unpleasant places. Sometimes locks need to be picked using master keys found.
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
Thanks for saving me 10 minutes
Number 7, not braille, Morse code
@@EDhynh0 True
Thanks definitely will implement these when my family of 20 try an escape room
@@ll77l BRUH you missed a bunch of details
i once went to an escape room, and on the bottom of a mug it said "made in china" and that was a clue
FFS
LMAO
Bruh
BRUTHA WHAT IN THE FRUNCK
It could have been Porcelain
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
Sad
Quality!!
Lol that’s sad but funny! 😆
Why did you just sit there?
@@VictorDomonik im ridiculously shy so i just waited for them to notice me doing nothing instead of doing anything myself
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.
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.
*casually watches in quarantine with no chance of going to an escape room*
Ikr
Yes!!!
yes relatable
So true
We already are
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 😂
Escape rooms can get people in fights. Believe me
One time we were in the Escape Room and we needed to unlock a door through some sort of codes using colours. Someone (could be even me) closed that door after making that code correctly and we were stuck in the first room for....30 minutes?
Robin Gillmore that’s nothing rlly funny
Lol that must be funny
@RobinGillmore It happens all the time. Communication is the most important 'key' for escaping.
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 👍
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”
how you fail pemdas it is basic algerba
I am going to an escaperoom today I am gonna rob a bank :)
@@RonDoncombeit's not algebra it's priority of operations 😂 how you gonna make someone feel bad for not knowing and not even know it yourself
@@filyboy7 that's exactly was I was finna say
WTH is pemdas i have never heard of it before, tho it sounds kinda similar to bedmas
That was a 10 second travel montage. You promised 6. You stole 4 seconds I'll never get back. How dare you
6 seconds of travel but 4 seconds of him there walking around :)
yea, unsubbed
Jeez only by 4 seconds.....
@@victoriacavallo5981 =)
He got there in 6 seconds
Tip: if there’s a painting, walk through it.
RennOrKai Minecraft boiiii
Only if I was make-believe, JIMMY DONT YOU STOP MAKING ME YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND.
Only for true Minecrafters. Omg thank you for over 100 likes
RennOrKai woah. Technology!
I must be getting old, because I thought you were making a Mario 64 reference.
Looking back, I'm so glad I came across this video. My escape room record thus far is 2-1, I barely didn't escape my first room even with the tips but I'm sure w/o them we wouldn't have made it far. Using the tips again and knowing more of what to look for, I and my group were able to break out of 2 rooms. This is a great guide for any newbie who wants to start playing escape rooms with their friends and families and makes the experience really fun.
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
I did an escape room with my cousin who is in the army. Instead of figuring out how to unlock the lock he just picked it and continued lol
That’s one way to do it
What a chad
I will keep that in mind if i ever do a escape room
I mean they don’t say you can’t pick the locks
@@a_human8489 thats true
"I can make it there in a 6-second travel montage." Proceeds to play 13 seconds of video. Must have been the time zone difference.
69 likes don't ruin it
To his credit, he actually arrived in Canada within 6 seconds, the remaining time spent touristing.
MoonKent he was talking just about the plane
@@tabbywarrior 609 now
MoonKent I thought that flight looked a bit long.
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.
Thats sounds really cool, love metapuzzles like that where the answers of the first puzzles feed into a bigger one.
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.
Thanks. When I design my escape room I will hide essential clues in ceiling lights and power outlets.
sounds expensive to have to replace them every time someone finds the clue
Make sure they get electrocuted when opening them
Just don't be the one room that uses an electrical outlet as a key hole. I seriously don't know where people get the idea to do that but apparently people seem to think that's a reasonable solution.
An escape room that I've done actually had a clue behind a fake power outlet.
Why do people do that? Was it at least hinted at? If not, they are terrible at making rooms
i honestly wanna see the lockpicking lawyer do an escape room now, and just pick open every single lock and escape within 5 minutes.
there are a lot of escape rooms that don't use locks for everything
@@Nic_S. Well he can just lockpick the escape door ahahahahah
@@savage3659 The one I work in doesn't lock the people in at all, but if the people just leave, they obviously wont get what they paied for and they won't get on the leaderboard, because they didn't complete the objective (which can't be done by picking a lock, with the exception of one of our older games).
Siege gang
pixel me see a key pad
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!
Thanks Mark! I'm going to an escape room today, so these tips should definitely help!
How many of you actually wanted to see them actually escaping out of an escape room?
Andrew Li In my experience you’re not allowed to film :)
WHERE’S THE VID😢
they did
Andrew Li hey brother
everybody who clicked the video.
Mark: "you wont find clues by disassemble ceiling lights" People who make escape rooms after this video: *i outsmart your outsmarting.*
i'm asking myself if i'm crazy, because i think this is a jojo reference
@@yunyun-rg1kg I S T H I S A J O J O R E F E R E N C E
“You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting”
I went to a local escape room a couple years back, there was a crank and the ceiling light comes down to reveal the baby you needed to find to win the puzzle lmao
I work at my local room, and theyre mixed XD, they make sure you know what to not take apart, but there is at least one room I know of in there so far that does require you to take apart something, which is a dresser XD
please do more of these videos!! they’re amazing
Ok I just did two of my first escape rooms after all of us watching your video before each one and we escaped both! What great memories!!! Thank you for this video and the great tips!
I work at an escape room and can not tell you the number of times people fail and get frustrated buy not following those tips. This video is 100% true, accurate and helpful!
They could also just ask for a hint though.
buy? by*
@@eu6744bruh no need to be rude
is this reverse psychology
Yes! I was the only person who had ever done an escape room in my group of 6 last week. They were all obsessed with going suuuuuper deep doing math and periodic table things (it was biohazard theme). I had to keep telling them they would never make puzzles that hard requiring writing out math or remberjng a 20 digit code 😂
I lost you at the “friends” part.
don't worry man, we're in the same boat
@@user-su6js9po4l Yeah
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Same
Same
Thanks for these tips Mark. It is really important to take a set back from a puzzle sometimes and have someone else look at it especially if you are over complicating things. Yesterday I escaped operation casino at breakout games with just 32 seconds to spare. So fun!
My boyfriend and I watched this video this morning before we did a 30 minute escape room this afternoon. We made it out with 8 minutes to spare! These tips really helped us divide and conquer
I would look at my phone wait for timer to end
* watches this alone in my room with no escape rooms even remotely near my area*
escape your room
Same bro, same
same :(
Same
@@Maelin. alex literally just said that
A tip for finding things an “average” person would know instead of going down rabbit holes: If the knowledge you have had to do with your profession, or is something that only certain groups of people would know, then it’s probably not the answer.
That makes sense, I did one that had to do with coding ( it was for business retreats) and I was like this doesn't seem like a thing, but all the coding people we're excited because it was. So if it's not for coding, it's probably not.
Exactly. I was in a escape room the other day and there was a rubix cube with numbers on certain boxes, when solved it revealed nothing even when put in color order or other kinds of combinations, while other puzzles that could be solved with no experience and with only clues and information found did eventually became a code that had to be translated into numbers which opened a briefcase.
This is usually true. The only exceptions I've found are when you could solve a puzzle without the knowledge, but special knowledge might get you there faster. For example, I went into an Egypt themed room where one of the puzzles was based on the heart weighing ceremony. Not common knowledge, but it helped me know which two things to put on the scales.
So the robber didn't hint at a V because not everybody knows geographic.
@@Secretcodrin There was most likely a globe in the room
These are really great tips! I am going to do an escape room soon and I'm sure they will come in handy.
Board Games With Scott!!! I used to love his video reviews. So great to see what he’s doing these days!
The people in my escape room are still in there a year later. My basement is a tough one I suppose
i-
R/cursedcomments
You’re very considerate for letting them take a long time too figure the puzzle out
Loooool
thats why you put them in the oven
I work in an escape room haha. For those of you who get frustrated about the red herrings, the thing is, they might not actually be red herrings. We are trained to make you escape the room so that you are proud of your achievement so sometimes when players take too long to solve some enigmas, we unblock others so that you move along to the end faster so that you are able to finish on time. In the escape room I work at, the rooms are designed not to have any red herrings but if players are not going fast enough, we can skip steps in the game so that they get the satisfaction of having escaped :)
You should be a story telling youtuber
I second this I’ve work in escape rooms for 5 years now, 3 different companies
How unsatisfying to know this....
I think red herrings are often unintentional and in the mind of the player. I've done about 20 rooms, and I've often found myself stuck on a prop that had nothing to do with the puzzle. That said, the prop clearly wasn't designed to be part of the puzzle, so I just read too much into things.
The one i work at, we dont let every group escape because we keep true to our escape rates. But our rules for us GM's is to get them 50% through the game and if there is some free time after their game has ended, we give them 15-30 extra minutes to try to escape the room. If they dont, we help explain things for them.
This video is great! My older brother loves your videos and told me to watch this video before doing the escape room I was going to do later that day. But, I forgot, and totally failed the escape room. I wish I had watched this video before the escape room, but I hope these tips help if I do another one. Also, I know what you mean about red herrings; 58 was written on a box, and we thought it meant something. But, after we lost and a staff member came in, he said the numbers didn't mean anything lol.
A friend and I did a cool Escape Room which was 3 separate rooms and Sci-Fi themed. One of the clues involved a star chart, the other was arranging weapons a certain way on a weapons rack and so fourth. You had time limit to get to the final room which was set up like a bridge of a space ship and you had stop it ship from crashing into a planet.
Tip 1: Bring LockPickingLawyer Tip 2: Escape through unlocked door
Big brain.
I was literally about to comment something like this
Ive been to an escape room that had electromagnetic locks.
Click on 1, 2 is binding...
@@lucheng1945 then you just need a rfid chip hacking device like flipper zero ;)
"dont dissect a lamp searching for a clue" flashbacks to when one of my teammates dissected the radiator resulting in a flooding of the room and the entire room being shut down for weeks YEET
Turning the tide and making the staff escape is a form of winning in my book
We definitely won, the staff were so ashamed that it had happened so we didn't even have to pay for the room and we got to do any other room for free lmao
Hahahaha xD
On the other hand, I've escaped from a room that had a very realistic but fake power socket...
Lmao!
Yay! Thanks, we’re going to an escape room today :) I’ll try keep all those tips in my head!
«learning stuff in a playful way» -this is the best meaning of games. This professor is a treasure!
I went to an escape room where they went through the rules, one of which was “don’t anything in holes in the wall and don’t pull anything out” One of the puzzles literally involved putting your hand in a hole in the wall and pulling out a wooden plank, which we were stuck on for like 15 mins because we were told not to.
i hate this! this happened to me on my first escape room that i ever did and the first thing we had to try and solve was literally a lock behind the book shelf when we were specifically told to "not mess up the place badly and move any objects out of their original place unless its an actual clue". we were stuck on it for 15 minutes and we were all newbies to this but i was the railing compartment thingy for sliding doors connected to the book shelf but nobody allowed me to move it in fear from the instructions but once we call in for a clue, the staff went "have you seen the book shelf?" so annoying!
That is the clue. It's just one of the ways to give it to players without saying it out directly (well, they did tell you the clue outright, just worded it as if it's forbidden). They are watching you anyway so if you are doing somethings that you're not suppose to do or will mess up their system, they will tell you.
@@neyrrad277 that's just a poor excuse. Dont give "rules" that are meant to be clues and expect people to not just break more rules because you just told them that the rest of the rules are possible clues
@@ace-kz9id Maybe, but we don't know how the clue was given (I meant when in the induction, and in what tone did the keeper deliver them). If it's mixed in the middle of all other real rules, I'd say I agree with you and that's the stupidest clue ever. But if it's given at the very end just before the game started, and was quite out-of-the-blue, then it should ring the bell as it might not be what it seems.
@@neyrrad277 g
Instructions failed, Current status: Still in prison.
*Hol up*
strzax shhh im in a guard uniform dont pm me!
I got u in jailed for ruining over a Mark rober hater u?
@@nicecleandough1587 hey man, it's been two months. you got out yet? once you do, please let me out of the basement
@@abhikd1 wait how do you have a phone? and yes i broke out
Holy smokes, this video was accurate. I've done a few escape rooms before with blah results. But this time, our group studied this video and crushed our difficult room - 2nd-fastest time on record this year! We felt so darn pleased with ourselves :)
Play the zero escape series. It's an amazing story along with great puzzles.
me: *disassembles electrical outlet and dies* friend: the clue is in the dead body
I hated people who dissambled anything especially when i told them not to do so or when there were labels stating not to touch it, those who did that I haven t helped them properly so they would not make it in time
me: fixes wires in electrical friend: there is one imposter among us
up the nose we go
Technically, you escaped the room... LOL
Obviously gets recorded as a covid death.
Mark: *represents Canada in 3 seconds with Niagara Falls, a Tim Hortons and a Canadian flag* Me, a canadian: "I consider this accurate"
Arastia Creations Niagara Falls has 2 sides
Arastia Creations yeah but (at least the part I live) snow
Lmao yeah I live in brantford and was like, yeppp that’s exactly how brantford is
@@markdavis7397 Wait until January, this is some of the warm winter temperatures haha
He also passed a Wayne Gretsky Parkway sign. I'd say that's also solid proof of being in Canada!
The last lock box you showed is easily pickable through feel. I used them for work and proved to my boss I could figure out any code he chose. We found a different style lock box lol
So I've done multiple escape rooms, sometimes getting out sometimes not, but after watching this video and applying the tips we did an escape room on NYE 2023 and did better than we ever have!! I made everyone in our group watch this b/c we were doing a harder escape room than last year (NYE tradition) and we made it out with like a minute last time, this room was rated harder and we got out with 15 minutes to spare only using 1 clue. So further proof these are great tips!
This is good and all, but I prefer threatening the guide to tell me everything.
Neat trick!
I do believe that will work, just make sure not to murder them or anything”wink-wink”
Good trick!!
My family is big brain so my parents beet the hardest one with three clues
Sam's Everything Channel didn’t ask
When I did one, they had a clock on the wall that was stopped at 6:10, we later found a watch in a safe, also stopped at that exact time.. we had no idea what it meant and it turns out it didn't mean anything. soo annoying lol
Billy Hammerton oh my god the same thing was at my escape room...
Well except it was a code in the clock that said the same time. Did absolutely nothing
Anyone else click on his time stamp
I did one escape room and they had 3 full shelves of random puzzles and only one meant something
They tried to direct you to Scott Nicholson
As thriller writer, this is very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for the tip I will be shore to use them soon!
Imagin spending like 20min on opening a chest, and you only find a paper that says “get trolled lol” in the chest
PAIN
@@Ascertivus you made me a you made me a believerl
Me: tries to figure out a clue from ‘get trolled lol’
@@notSwiftie believer
lol is that a real experience
Just break the rules and they'll kick you out. You escaped!
LOL!!!!!
We once stuck my small hand through a locked drawer and got the key out, they didn’t kick us out
HAHAHHAHAHA
you also wasted your money!
Once we were in a escape room and the button was is a plastic box and someone slammed their hand on it And it pressed
I just went to an escape room with some friends and we went to the hardest difficulty room, i thought we wouldnt make it out because we had been there before on a lower difficulty and barely made it out with a lot of clues. But we got out of this one with 5mins spare and i followed these tips, thanks for the tips :D
I would say that everyone working working on one puzzle can be counter intuitive at times. For example, there may be two different puzzles that have clues scattered around. So if you immediately hone in on one, you may miss clues for the second. In addition, its better to have everyone working on different ones instead of one singular, since then you can come up with solutions for all three in that time instead of one.
I'm a laurier brantford student, Scott is my professor, he's the real deal. He makes us watch this video for the escape rooms class. Im a long time fan of his channel and finding out that you know my prof and have literally been in my classroom is awesome! This literally made my day.
THERES AN ESCAPE ROOM CLASS?? If they don't end up having that at UT Austin I'm going to be VERY disappointed
Whats your program?
..and that kids, is how you get an A+. 😅
Escape Room Class??
@@AceFaz yes indeed. We make an escape room and run it to the public. Lots of fun and we get to work with industry professionals and gain lots of experience.
I once went to an escape room with my friend on his birthday and we finished in 16 min because we unscrewed the doorknob. The employees weren't happy.
lol
Did they try to stop you through the mic?
@@dinosadecuadabdwho nkows
LMAO THIS GOT ME WHEEZING
at least you didn't broke their door, i mean u didn't destroy their door.. lol
Great tips! We'd love to have you and your team test them out on our rooms one day 😎🤗
I'm feeling more and more anxious about trying this out tomorrow night as this video continues on😬
The keep it simple one is true af. I did an escape room and a newspaper had a phrase on it that said “A murder in the hills! Neighbors say they heard TWO shots in the dead of night!” At this point I had a toy revolver and I was like “Surely it can’t be that simple” I pulled the trigger twice on the revolver and the coffin sitting in the corner of the room with a lock on it swung wide open to reveal a skeleton and three more clues lol.
dudeee thats such a creepy escape room
That’s awesome
I did that one!
How hard was the chess puzzle for you? We took about half our time on that puzzle
Where was this because that room sounds awesome
How to escape an escape room: Crash through the nearest wall and shout OH YEAAAAH!
Lol tf
The fastest is to NOT go into an escape room
Oh no!
Nawty nawty coolaid guy.
I thought you were supposed to shout "LEROY JENKINS!"
You were definitely one of my favorite KZheadrs and after the video of your son you're definitely one of my favorite fathers. You may not realize it but sometimes people give up and your videos may have just saved somebody's life. I am forever grateful thank you.
Scott’s KZhead channel got me into modern board gaming. What a legend
"Escape rooms HATE him! One man found these 10 SIMPLE TIPS to break out of any room!"
wait but he found it with escape room maker
bruh i wanna like but it’s at 666
*Picture of a man pointing a gun at an employee
“Hello everyone, this is the LockPickingLawyer”
I was thinking that also lol
YES
Click out of one, two is giving me some difficulty
Lol he would like why break the codes on the card when you can just use the card to open the lock..... Duh 😏
Ay yo leo are you in the kettering district?
This should be the first video on any search for escape rooms tutorials.
Im doing an escape room in two days and ive watched this video a few times since it was uploaded, but here I am again!
"you won't need any special knowledge... just Morse code... and Braille... and ciphers...
SoLongSidekick they’ll give you a key somewhere in the room for Morse and Braille
Nah. The room always provides you the code key.
SoLongSidekick And knowing your types of horses
Lol
In mine you needed football knowledge... f me
"I'm the lock picking lawyer and today I'm breaking the record set by this channel."
Oh boy, I thought this SOOO hard when looking at all those locks lmaoo
Oh my gosh now I want to see him in an escape room video...
Everyone looking for clues when you suddenly hear a „click out of one, nothing on two, three is binding“
Underrated comment
I was just about to mention LPL in the comments lol
Can I just say I love your videos and I love doing escape rooms so this video will be very helpful thank you
This one of the best video that you have done so far. My opinion.
"No matter what the package says, you'll have a better time at half capacity" but what if the package says that the tent is intended for one person? Sounds painful.
Lol
Then you get a tent for two people
Looks like you beat me to that comment.
Then you use two of those tents as one person
How about a little person using that one? 🤔
Now I can Help my dad escape the one he’s been in for 5 years thanks
LOL
Did you save him?
haha that's called jail
What’s a dad?
@@egowafle4511 a dad is something you need to make babies
Going to one today, here in Louisiana, and I definitely feel better about going in now.
Thanks to these tips, me and my friends were able to do far better than the majority of beginners in their first escape rooms… By finishing 1 minute over the time limit! We’re definitely going to pass the next escape room! Thanks for your advice dude! EDIT: Also, it was just three of us, and the owner was very impressed!
My friends and I stunk lol... we had one more clue but used 2 clues and time ran out.
"Don't look anywhere where it isn't logical to search" Me, in a prisonstyle escape room: Looks in the toilet, and in the back of it to find an important book.
It's logical to search there. Just not for a book
I know which escape room you're talking about!
Prisonstyle makes it logical, imo
Same
Lol wouldn't the book be wet? Or are you talking opening the tank and finding a book inside?
Everybody gangsta until a voice in an escape room says *"I wanna play a game"*
John Michael Ligtas gasp wanna smash bros ultimate Kirby v Kirby???
@@asian_sensation_6998 More like old school puppet rolling in on miniature antique bikes.
Remember the rule number 10! "Your guide is Your friend!"
I did the SAW escape room in Las Vegas. It was pretty good, we finished with like 30 seconds left.
This is great. I've completed a bit over 100 rooms with a 72% escape rate and these are great tips!
Hey I loved your video and it's made me want to do one. Thanks for the great tips.
Me and my friends once did an escape room in about 5 seconds. We haven't even started searching, when one of them stood in the open door and shouted "I did it"... One of my friends was from Poland and just picked the lock 😂
LOL
That is the real way to escape an escape room everyone
I mean... Technically?
That’s not how it works and I’m 99% sure you made that up. But, ok...
@@spilledmilk5542 thanks for spilling it
A tip I found very important (loosely related to tip 10) - if you suspect something's broken, make sure to ask the guide. For example, if a flashlight gives very little light don't assume that's part of the challenge and instead ask if it's right and if they could replace the batteries. As Mark said, the point is for you to enjoy, so if there's a problem like that - don't hesitate to ask!
Yeah, the only escape room I ever did was messed up to start with. Kinda annoyed.
Speed My first room had some problems, but we all were new, so we just went with it. That's where the flashlight example is from - we couldn't see anything and the guide had to tell us where to look, we then threw our glowsticks (which were there only so you can find the flashlight and batteries) there thinking it's supposed to be like that. Wasted our time there.
The first room I ever did had this problem. There was a blacklight we found and the batteries were on their last leg , giving us next to no power with it. Since it was our first time, we didn't think to ask about it. Slowed us down substantially.
Also, two of the people were veterans with escape rooms so I don't think I really did much. In essence, it was a bad match of people for me with a poorly designed room.
I am a guide for an escape room company and at the beginning I always say to the people, that they can talk with me all the time, if they are not sure if they are allowed to do something. Sometimes a keypad gets stuck, most of them are not intended to open and close 200 times a day, so we have to replace them quite often and usually a group finds a malfunction before we do 😅
This is perfect timing, my friend is having an escape room birthday party this weekend Hehe
EXCELLENT, my friend is turning 60 and wants an escape room for his birthday!!! We will now ROCK!!! Thanks so much.
I did an escape room once. It was weird though. I didn't know they put live guards in rooms... The money in the vault was actually real though, and the police chase afterwards was so realistic. They even made it look like my buddy actually got shot! It was awesome
nice....
I did one where we were in a plane wreckage and it started off with the plane crashing and you are basically trying to get out of the plane alive and then send for help.
Sounds so cool!!! I love immersive experiences like that. What escape room was it? It sounds like something me and my friends would enjoy.
@@kirakoraawesome it's called your local bank XD
cool
I have done a few escape rooms and went to one with a couple friends. They decided to take it easy because there was just one room, surely there can't have that many puzzles, right? Well, as I suggested early on, turns out the bookshelf was hiding a second room. We only had 15 minutes left when it opened
Was it a Sherlock Holmes based one as that happened to me found another room ran out of time before figuring anything out
I'm not even sure I've done an escape room without there being multiple rooms in some way. Hidden in a wardrobe, through a second door, and players starting in separate rooms and work into a center one are ones I remember.
@@JondGames what are the chances of finding you in a random comment reply section! Damn am I lucky
I did one and the cork bord slid away revealing a second room
Same! That has happened to me twice. I wish that they would mention to you that there are two parts to the escape room.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention what in my opinion is the biggest piece of advice: don’t go opening random things for no reason or pulling random things off shelves. It gets messy and hard to keep track of what you really need to do. Instead start by focusing on things you can easily see around the room. Most of the time the first clue will be written on a wall, or there will be an open book or a newspaper, or a stopped clock, something that can give you an idea of what you’re looking for.
did my first escape room last week (I forget about all these pieces of advice) just remembered watching this video waaaay back and came back. If any1 is curious we completed it with minimum amount of ppl (apperently it was super hard)
This was very useful in escaping, I don't know what this "escape room" thing is all about though.
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‘Hol up
Wait
Ohhhhhh my god go back they are gonna find you
Wait
"step 0: Every tool's a hammer. " Adam Savage
What about concrete walls hm
a cultured individual. Nice to meet you sir.
Ok I’ll remember that next time
“Step 0: A knife is needed in an escape room.” -Me
Great tips! Should have watched your video before we did an Escape Room.
Mark, we love your videos!! Your link to the 8 roles is not found and 2/3 of us are newbies to an Escape Room tomorrow! Thanks for the top ten helps!
1:28 Ah, the most well known monument of Canada, Tim Hortons.
And the best ;)
Was that sarcastic, or..
maybe not the best, but definitely iconic
What about the Wayne Gretzky Parkway? 1:29
No Tim Horton’s is our monument. Nothing else at all.
3:14 *Remembers me disassembling an innocent table lamp*
I actually read a Reddit post about someone doing an Escape Room where the guide said "you don't need to take anything apart to find any clues." ...And then they failed because one of the clues required them to open up (ie, take apart) a flashlight in the room.
I took apart an innocent lamp too! My friends and I still laugh about that lol.
Yeah, the first escape room I did they said "don't mess around with stuff, it should be obvious if it doesn't come apart easily it's not supposed to." Also "one of our guests once spent ages digging a brick out of a wall - you can still see it, just don't go and do stuff like that". The FIRST thing in the room was a solid looking wooden block that needed to be taken apart... Later on we literally had to take a brick out of a wall to get a key... *facepalm*.
That lamp had a family ...... ( T T )
I once dissasembled a whole nightstand doing this
My family lost an escape room yesterday because we got stuck on a combination lock that the answer to a riddle was the lock code and even clues weren't helping us. Turns out we technically had the correct answer the very first time to the riddle but where we are from a different spelling of the word is used. So we lost all that time trying to figure out that code.