I find escape rooms extremely boring. I had experienced two in my life and I just couldn't get it. First of all, the escape room is not real - you can always just walk out and then you also know that the riddles were created to entertain average person, so there is nothing special about solving them. About two hours of pretending I enjoy it, so I wouldn't upset work mates that thought it will be great team bonding exercise.
> First of all, the escape room is not real - you can always just walk out and then you also know that the riddles were created to entertain average person, so there is nothing special about solving them.
Well, yes. It's a game you play with other people. Have you never encountered a game before? Did you know that when you play chess, you are not actually commanding real knights and bishops to fight each other?
> Did you know that when you play chess, you are not actually commanding real knights and bishops to fight each other?
You reminded me of a game called "Battle Chess", in which bishops hold glaives, the rook is a stone golem, pawns carry short swords. And yes, they do battle to the death in accordance to the rules in chess.
I played it years ago, and found that the death scene was different for each thing attacked. It was quite entertaining :)
If you don't enjoy puzzles/riddles and you don't want to hang out with your work mates you will probably have a bad time doing an escape room. I'm not sure anyone is going into an escape room thinking they are actually stuck in there. Instead you go in thinking of it as a game where you want to get out as fast as possible.
Yeah it’s like, I was told there would be zombies at this haunted house and it turns out that it was just normal people in costumes and we were in no danger of having our brains feasted on by the undead at all. I would like a refund.
My mom took me to such place when I was a child and my experience was exactly like you describe. We didn't get a refund. Maybe this is just personality thing.
I know you've been downvoted, but I do agree to some extent.
I did an escape room last week, while it was quite fun... the things you had to do to get out weren't exactly inventive. It was more luck than anything else, as you couldn't work out what to do. There wasn't really any logic to it, no connections between challenges just a load of unrelated tasks that lead to the door opening.
That said I'd still recommend it though, at least give it a try!
I think CTFs are like escape rooms but without the fake connection between the challenges. Still as fun to solve with friends, but there isn't that "fake" feeling that would ruin it, like it does ruin escape rooms for me.
If you play a video game does it ruin it for you that someone wrote the puzzles and you can turn it off at any time? Maybe you just don’t like puzzles.
"the riddles were created to entertain average person" perhaps indicates an inappropriate difficulty level; we've had bad experiences in some rooms that were really fun for others simply because of the lack of difficulty, but have had a great time in rooms that are rated as very difficult. The reviews and choice of rooms are important, picking a challenge that's far too hard or far too easy won't give good results.
I've been to one escape room. We could just walk out, but that would be forfeiting your money, and then you'd get to sit in the lobby waiting for your friends, because you couldn't get back in. Not even a restroom visit was allowed. Also, I was with a definitely above-average IQ group, and we did not make it out in time...
