You know what's bullshit? The escape room I just went to

So I went to an escape room with my class today, in 4-person groups. My group had a decent experience overall, but at the end, the very end, there was a question with three choices. We got it wrong and guess what. We lost. WE LOST. IN AN ESCAPE ROOM. That one question in the very end can fuck over your 90 minutes of progress and make you lose.
That's not how escape rooms work! There should've been a time limit and an endless number of tries with all the puzzles. But no. They actually put in a question in the VERY END that makes you LOSE if you get it wrong.
What a load of shit.
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leon315
dude, it's like disarm a bomb: cut the wrong wire, THEN KABOOM!

No matter how hard u tried to open the case.

p.s. is this entire experience costed ur 200bucks??
 
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That honestly sounds like a complete scam of an escape room.
 
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smileyhead
We were learning about a guy's life story all the way through and the question was to select the guy's photo out of three, based on the things you remember.
 
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JiveTheTurkey
Sheeeit I'd start sweating and getting mad, freaking out that I just want to step outside. Too weak to play.
 
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*mentions something about a jacket early in*
*90mins later*
ok so pick the picture of the guy based on what you know
*only 1 has a jacket, wrong answer*

welcome to life
 
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FAST6191
"That's not how escape rooms work! There should've been a time limit and an endless number of tries with all the puzzles."?
Why?

There are any number of games, activities and such that you can fail at the final hurdle for. Furthermore if you have been lulled into believing things are able to be solved with brute force then that sounds like a nice twist on what would be a stale formula.
 
BORTZ
I did one once. My friends got really into it. There was a phone, some cameras, books etc. My friend found some wires with some tape and numbers written on them. He started pulling on them and was like "guys guys i found something!" The phone started ringing so I ran over to answer it, thinking we had solved our first mystery. Nope. It was the operators watching us work the room.
"Hey! Quit wrecking our cameras!"
 
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BlueFox gui said:
escape room?
the fuck is that, why you have to do that?
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While search engines do exist I might as well go it.
Ever played one of those locked room computer games where you investigate the contents of drawers, find clues, solve puzzles, complete mazes... to either escape, rescue someone, break into a safe or achieve something similar? That but in real life. While similar things have existed for many years they variously* got pretty popular in recent times all over the world as evening or group entertainment.

*UK wise while not an escape room (technically a trademark) there was a setup made to mimic the crystal maze which was an immensely popular game show in the early 90s, reruns of which carried on for many many years afterwards. They charged a lot but got booked solid for years on end, such that it was reported on and that only made things worse. The US followed something of a different path, and Australia a different one again.
 
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