What Are Escape Rooms?


Escape Rooms are a type of live-action adventure game where you and your team are “locked” in a themed room with other participants.

While you’re in the room you need to find clues and solve a series of puzzles with the ultimate goal of escaping the room within 60 minutes!

These live-action games have sometimes been described as the “physical versions” of an old video game called “escape the room“.

Escape Room Games are typically set in a variety of fictional locations, such as prison cells, dungeons and space stations. This form of entertainment has historically been a very popular team building exercises as well.

A short one minute video we made to explain what an escape room actually is.


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History


The earliest known real-life escape room was in Silicon Valley, California and called “Origin”. Created back in 2006, the mysteries and challenges in the game were inspired by the works of Agatha Christie and became a popular tourist attraction for that area.

Escape Room’s beginnings can also be traced to the Japanese company SCRAP back in 2007. This company transformed the early video game concept into a Live Escape Room. Its founder, Takao Kato, had the primary goal of creating games in which the players could be completely immersed in their experience. From there, Escape Games started to pop up in the rest of Asia before arriving in Europe, and eventually in the United States around 2013.

By July of 2018 there were over 2,300 escape room venues in the United States alone (with the vast majority right here in California).