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HCA / April 4, 2016

What Is An Escape Room?

TOP SECRET Escape Room

One Room. One Team. 45 Minutes.

You and your team of secret agents have been chosen to complete this TOP SECRET mission. You have 45 minutes to escape the room or be trapped forever. Escaping the room will require teamwork, quick wits, and creative thinking. Do you have what it takes?

You have 45 minutes. The clock is ticking.

$10.00 per person
Recommended Team Size: 4-6 agents
Cash bar and light snacks available
*Up to 6 players at a time

April 22nd and 23rd ONLY

Recommendations:

  • Wear Comfy Clothes
  • If you don’t know all your teammates, get to know each other and their strengths & weaknesses
  • Don’t be afraid to look!

Real Life Escape Rooms

An escape room is a physical, interactive adventure game where you and your team will be locked into a room at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts. You will need to find and solve a sequence of clues and puzzles to successfully find your way back out within the set 45 minute time limit.

These clues are hidden around the room. They are concealed in numbers that need to be deciphered. They are cloaked in mystery that needs to be decoded. With enough searching you’ll be able to find all the clues, figure out codes, get into locked containers and doors, and hopefully find freedom! Players must be observant and use critical thinking in order to get out.

Real Life Escape Rooms started in Japan nearly a decade ago and has grown in popularity by appealing to those who want to experience their entertainment rather than watch it. Based off of point and click adventure video games, escape the room games were quickly developed. These games featured a single player interacting with objects within the room and needing to escape from a single door.

Real Life Escape Rooms take the elements of the virtual games and build on them. They can add puzzles, creative thinking, a group element, and limited time. These games allow the player to actually be the main character, instead of watching the main character.

Becoming popular in metropolitan and coastal cities in the US since 2014, these rooms can be found in over 50 countries and over 280 cities across the globe. Described as “experimental entertainment”, Escape Rooms, allow people to do. HYPE 15 has created a unique room at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts for people to come and do.

Escape Rooms can cost anywhere between $45-60 per player. HYPE 15 is providing an experience at HCA for $10 per player for two days only. Don’t miss your chance to escape!

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Filed Under: General / Tagged With: Escape Room, event, HYPE 15

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  1. Kate Hansen says

    September 29, 2016 at 10:17 am

    Escape rooms sound like they could be a really fun way to bond with a team or office. I like that it uses your brain power to figure out how to get out! It’s interesting that you point out that escape rooms started in Japan and have now come to America!

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  2. Copenhagen Escape Room says

    February 1, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    Nice initiative creating a pop-up escape room. I hope it was a blast.

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  3. Kylie Dotts says

    July 5, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    I didn’t know that escape rooms originally started in Japan. It seems like it would be really fun to take my family to try out an escape room but we still have little kids that I wouldn’t want getting scared and having a fit because we get locked in a room. Maybe in a few years, we’ll be able to take them or maybe we could find one that is child-friendly as well as adult friendly.

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  4. Rachel Lannister says

    July 20, 2017 at 11:52 am

    You wrote that escape rooms are more or less puzzles, and provide your group with a series of problems you need to find the solutions to in order to “escape” the room. My friend’s and I have been looking for an activity that we could all together and I decided to do some research online. This would be a great activity for us, as everyone could be involved and it would really give us an opportunity to interact with each other.

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