Name: BEAT ANY ESCAPE ROOM- 10 proven tricks and tips
Uploaded: 2020-12-23T11:52:45.000Z
Duration: 11 min 23 s
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It's basically where you and some friends are placed in a room and you have to solve a series of puzzles and locks to get

and today I'm gonna give you ten proven tips to dominate any type of escape room and I say proven because me and six of

My buddies utilize these tips and even though about half of us

I've never even done an escape room before we shattered the long-standing record for this room by finishing in 38 minutes with no clues

Next we tried an even harder room to prove that it wasn't just luck and there again we finished in 46 minutes

And so the evidence seemed compelling but for further proof

I had my niece and nephew and a bunch of their friends first try a room without me telling them the tips

They only made it about halfway through at the end of the full hour

Then we walked through the ten tips together and then they went back to a new room with an equal level of difficulty and this

Time that they finished in 55 minutes with no clues now

you're probably thinking what qualifies me to be giving tips about escape rooms when I've only ever done three myself and the answer is

Absolutely, nothing. They're actually not my tips. I tracked down the architect and designer of the red bull escaping the wind championships

He's a college professor. His name is Scott Nicholson

The problem is I live here in California and he's way over here in Brantford, Ontario in Canada

And while that's typically a 12-hour trip through the magic of YouTube

I knew I could make it there in just a six second travel montage

Okay, so I am here now in Canada at the begin lab at Laurier University

With Scott Nicholson Scott. What the heck do you do? What is this place?

Well, this place is where I met games. Our focus here is actually making games to change the world

So a lot of the games we make here of some sort of learning outcome

Our goal is to help get people to learn stuff in a playful way

So professor Nicholson and I hung out together for a day as he generously spilled out the information

He even put me through a few challenges and puzzles of my own and so here are the ten tips

I came away with after hanging out with him

Generally keep reminding yourself that the average person should be able to complete this room in one hour in a well-designed room

You won't need any extra knowledge besides what you can just find in the room people tend to overanalyze and just go down a rabbit

We found the travel log of a robber and he went from Washington down to Mexico City up to Toronto

He would travel on and maybe that was a code and then we're like maybe we should

Unscramble the names of the countries and then we realized his path

which happened to be the first letter in a combination lock we were trying to open if you can't find a simple answer to a

Puzzle chances are it's because all the necessary information hasn't been revealed to you yet. So move on and then come back to it

Later, the second tip deals with searching

The first thing you should do in your to room is for everyone to split up and to start looking for clues and items

Professor Nicholson actually put me through my own searching boot camp to point out the typical places that things are hidden

There you go. Always look under tables always look under rugs

they write codes on the back of rugs other spots might be in hollowed-out books or in pockets of clothing or

Behind a door in the room a super common first-time mistake is to look in places

You should for example, you won't find a clue by disassembling a ceiling light or a power outlet

Another common searching mistake is to see Clues and things that aren't for example

The bottom of this chair has letters and numbers from the factory

But they're obviously not part of the room design because they don't fit with the theme

Going back to tip 1 the clues and key items should be fairly obvious in a well

Signed room and the more scape rooms you do the more you'll get a sense for what is and isn't a real clue tip 3

Organize your stuff as you search the room put all the clues and items in one location

So if you found three similar cups like this with numbers on the bottom group them together as you do this the bigger picture begins

To emerge and it's easier to tell what you're missing

don't let people just walk around with an item randomly in their hand that others don't know about you can ask before you start but

Almost all rooms have a policy where you use one clue or one lock only one time

so once you've used a clue or item put it in a discard pile and be sure to leave any key in the lock that

It opened this helps avoid unnecessary wasting of time when a team member is working on a puzzle

They don't realize has already been solved and used for tip four

Now that your team is starting to make sense of the room

focus on what is stopping you from moving forward you are going to feel overwhelmed at the beginning even with our record breaking times about

Halfway through I thought there is no way we're gonna even come close to finishing

But then you solve one thing and then everything else starts falling into place to help with this work

Backwards from the thing that is stopping you identify that inputs it needs for example in this room

And it looks like the key is right here, but you need some kind of hanger to fish it out now

Probably contains that hanger and it has a lock that needs three letters and two numbers today

You can focus on clues that will yield three numbers and two letters you won't be as vulnerable to red herrings

So red herring is something that's put into the room that has no bearing upon the game. It can be something simple

oh, this has got to be really important clearly or if some rooms even have red herring puzzles that

Lead to nothing as a player. It's incredibly frustrating and so we've done some studies

So most players hate red herrings because they're waste of our time

About half designers hate red herrings and will not put them in their rooms and about half are like, yeah

They're okay to have in the roof by working backwards on the immediate inputs that are needed

You'll avoid wasting time on red herring clips tip 5 is about team rolls according to dr

Communication is the number one reason why teams fail his list of eight different roles that team members can be assigned which I will link

But the one that semen was critical in our experience was project manager

Because it helps alleviate the issue of poor communication. The project manager shouldn't get overly involved in puzzles instead

The project manager is the person people report to and say hey

There's a four digit combination lock over there and the project manager will call that out

Okay, everyone. We're looking for four digits. Someone comes up and says hey there's there's a five letter word lock there

Okay, we're looking for five letters. There's a poster over there. That looks funny. Okay

So everyone take a look at that poster if you're searching for something you might find it in that poster

So the project manager should keep an idea of what are the active tasks what needs to be done?

Keep the game flow going, but try to keep themselves out of getting buried in puzzles

So they can keep a scan of what's happening

So the first five tips focused on it general team strategies, but the last half will be about puzzle solving strategies

you should be familiar with most common locks and their inputs because again if you're working back from what's stopping you and you know a

Lock requires three letters, then everyone could just focus on finding three letters

The standard key lock is the most obvious then a combination lock where you're just looking for four numbers in a specific order or here

Where it's a combination lock of letters and numbers

But five total then your classic dial lock where you need three numbers total and you start by spinning clockwise then open it like this

Then you've got this directional lock which is a little trickier because they can have anywhere from two to thirty inputs

squeeze down here three times to wipe it clean