I went to an escape room. Found a key and it broke inside the lock. I sat there for 10 minutes before the staff came in and asked me why I wasn't doing anything. They had to get a lock cutter for me to get through to the next part. It was fun
I don't think you are telling the truth. You can't have a phone in a escape room it says that. Maybe you are being grounded and you locked in your room.
As someone who works at an escape room, I can confirm that all of these tips are valid and EXTREMELY helpful! I already tell customers some of these, but I'll definitely be telling them the rest now! Another tip I use is to not be afraid to ask for hints. At my job, we give unlimited, so people are usually more willing to ask for help. But even if you're limited and you're really stuck, some times one clue is all you need to continue the room.
@@cccooper472 it depends on the room. Most of the ones I've done were with 4 or 5 people and it was perfect, but I know about one were you need to have between 8 and 10 participants (that is way less common). Also, in all of the ones I've been to you only see the person working there at the beginning to explain the story and at the end when you escape and they offer you a picture
@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 You are being monitored at all times when in an escape room. There is a reason why there is always a security camera inside the room(s), and that is so that the employees can monitor and offer assistance if needed.
As an escape room enthusiast, I can say that most of these tips will keep you in the room forever. They are only suitable for very basic rooms for beginners. In normal escape rooms, the puzzles can be much more difficult. Keys, codes, passwords, hints can be found in lamps, in sockets, and in the most unpleasant places. Sometimes locks need to be picked using master keys found.
I'm a laurier brantford student, Scott is my professor, he's the real deal. He makes us watch this video for the escape rooms class. Im a long time fan of his channel and finding out that you know my prof and have literally been in my classroom is awesome! This literally made my day.
@@AceFaz yes indeed. We make an escape room and run it to the public. Lots of fun and we get to work with industry professionals and gain lots of experience.
I work in an escape room haha. For those of you who get frustrated about the red herrings, the thing is, they might not actually be red herrings. We are trained to make you escape the room so that you are proud of your achievement so sometimes when players take too long to solve some enigmas, we unblock others so that you move along to the end faster so that you are able to finish on time. In the escape room I work at, the rooms are designed not to have any red herrings but if players are not going fast enough, we can skip steps in the game so that they get the satisfaction of having escaped :)
I think red herrings are often unintentional and in the mind of the player. I've done about 20 rooms, and I've often found myself stuck on a prop that had nothing to do with the puzzle. That said, the prop clearly wasn't designed to be part of the puzzle, so I just read too much into things.
The one i work at, we dont let every group escape because we keep true to our escape rates. But our rules for us GM's is to get them 50% through the game and if there is some free time after their game has ended, we give them 15-30 extra minutes to try to escape the room. If they dont, we help explain things for them.
I work at an escape room and can not tell you the number of times people fail and get frustrated buy not following those tips. This video is 100% true, accurate and helpful!
Yes! I was the only person who had ever done an escape room in my group of 6 last week. They were all obsessed with going suuuuuper deep doing math and periodic table things (it was biohazard theme). I had to keep telling them they would never make puzzles that hard requiring writing out math or remberjng a 20 digit code 😂
My wife and I did an escape room for our anniversary. I showed her this video before we went in. All these tips came in handy and we escaped with 2 seconds to spare. The room even had a few red herrings. Huge fan of all your videos. Keep up the great work 👍
Hi! I'm interviewing for a job as a Guide, having never done an Escape Room myself. Training is provided, of course, but we are given immediate raises based on how quickly we learn the rooms. This is an awesome guide, thank you!! I feel much more prepared going in.
A tip for finding things an “average” person would know instead of going down rabbit holes: If the knowledge you have had to do with your profession, or is something that only certain groups of people would know, then it’s probably not the answer.
That makes sense, I did one that had to do with coding ( it was for business retreats) and I was like this doesn't seem like a thing, but all the coding people we're excited because it was. So if it's not for coding, it's probably not.
Exactly. I was in a escape room the other day and there was a rubix cube with numbers on certain boxes, when solved it revealed nothing even when put in color order or other kinds of combinations, while other puzzles that could be solved with no experience and with only clues and information found did eventually became a code that had to be translated into numbers which opened a briefcase.
This is usually true. The only exceptions I've found are when you could solve a puzzle without the knowledge, but special knowledge might get you there faster. For example, I went into an Egypt themed room where one of the puzzles was based on the heart weighing ceremony. Not common knowledge, but it helped me know which two things to put on the scales.
@@ARSaVaGE2626 The one I work in doesn't lock the people in at all, but if the people just leave, they obviously wont get what they paied for and they won't get on the leaderboard, because they didn't complete the objective (which can't be done by picking a lock, with the exception of one of our older games).
1. Think simple, a well designed escape room won’t be that complicated 2. Search once you enter the room, but search carefully so you don’t mess things up 3. Organize your stuff, make sure you aren’t redoing clues 4. Focus on stops, you can do this, don’t think otherwise (work backwards and pull back your thinking) 5. Team roles, project manager, and certain people for certain clues 6. Lock types, know which lock is which and which codes they need 7. Code types, make sure you know short and long lines are braille 8. Written clues, look for abnormal patterns in writing 9. Look for patterns, this literally explains itself 10. Your guide is your friend, listen to instructions so you don’t royally mess something up
The keep it simple one is true af. I did an escape room and a newspaper had a phrase on it that said “A murder in the hills! Neighbors say they heard TWO shots in the dead of night!” At this point I had a toy revolver and I was like “Surely it can’t be that simple” I pulled the trigger twice on the revolver and the coffin sitting in the corner of the room with a lock on it swung wide open to reveal a skeleton and three more clues lol.
Final solve for an escape room I did was a number lock. To get the number, we had to solve a math equation, which we found by turning off the lights to the room and shining two different laser pointers at specific angles from two different spots in the room, and the various mirrors create the said math equation. Finding the laser pointers, where to put them, what angle to put them at, all required separate series of puzzles on their own.
I went to an escape room where they went through the rules, one of which was “don’t anything in holes in the wall and don’t pull anything out” One of the puzzles literally involved putting your hand in a hole in the wall and pulling out a wooden plank, which we were stuck on for like 15 mins because we were told not to.
i hate this! this happened to me on my first escape room that i ever did and the first thing we had to try and solve was literally a lock behind the book shelf when we were specifically told to "not mess up the place badly and move any objects out of their original place unless its an actual clue". we were stuck on it for 15 minutes and we were all newbies to this but i was the railing compartment thingy for sliding doors connected to the book shelf but nobody allowed me to move it in fear from the instructions but once we call in for a clue, the staff went "have you seen the book shelf?" so annoying!
That is the clue. It's just one of the ways to give it to players without saying it out directly (well, they did tell you the clue outright, just worded it as if it's forbidden). They are watching you anyway so if you are doing somethings that you're not suppose to do or will mess up their system, they will tell you.
@@neyrrad277 that's just a poor excuse. Dont give "rules" that are meant to be clues and expect people to not just break more rules because you just told them that the rest of the rules are possible clues
@@ace-kz9id Maybe, but we don't know how the clue was given (I meant when in the induction, and in what tone did the keeper deliver them). If it's mixed in the middle of all other real rules, I'd say I agree with you and that's the stupidest clue ever. But if it's given at the very end just before the game started, and was quite out-of-the-blue, then it should ring the bell as it might not be what it seems.
I was doing an escape room and we were trying to find the key for something but then after 20 mins we realised that my dad was holding the key the whole time i was so mad lol 😂
One time we were in the Escape Room and we needed to unlock a door through some sort of codes using colours. Someone (could be even me) closed that door after making that code correctly and we were stuck in the first room for....30 minutes?
4:09 🔐 Hey, I work at an Escape Room and I have to say, it’s actually kinda frustrating when people put all the locks in a pile, because when we have to reset the room we now have to match the locks with where they go. If some locks look similar we have to pray that they didn’t scramble the lock afterwards otherwise it’s really easy to mix them up and put the wrong lock somewhere. Grouping other items you’ve used is fine but with locks you’re better off just leaving the lock in the hasp after you unlatch it.
thats what i just experienced. the person was continuing to say. “youll only use each clue once” it wasnt for their sake it was for my peace of mind knowing a clue or lock didnt pop up out of nowhere!
I used to watch Scott Nicholson's board game show back in the day. Certainly did not expect to see him pop up here. He seems like a very knowledgable, kind-hearted and soft-spoken guy. Great to know he's still around and doing what he loves!
@@alexrife2799 Why? What's wrong with that, just don't make any of the ports live. - If you're going to design a proper escape room, everything you don't want anyone to mess with should be indestructible to a hammer etc - Use Rivets etc
My boyfriend and I watched this video this morning before we did a 30 minute escape room this afternoon. We made it out with 8 minutes to spare! These tips really helped us divide and conquer
"dont dissect a lamp searching for a clue" flashbacks to when one of my teammates dissected the radiator resulting in a flooding of the room and the entire room being shut down for weeks YEET
We definitely won, the staff were so ashamed that it had happened so we didn't even have to pay for the room and we got to do any other room for free lmao
A tip I found very important (loosely related to tip 10) - if you suspect something's broken, make sure to ask the guide. For example, if a flashlight gives very little light don't assume that's part of the challenge and instead ask if it's right and if they could replace the batteries. As Mark said, the point is for you to enjoy, so if there's a problem like that - don't hesitate to ask!
Speed My first room had some problems, but we all were new, so we just went with it. That's where the flashlight example is from - we couldn't see anything and the guide had to tell us where to look, we then threw our glowsticks (which were there only so you can find the flashlight and batteries) there thinking it's supposed to be like that. Wasted our time there.
The first room I ever did had this problem. There was a blacklight we found and the batteries were on their last leg , giving us next to no power with it. Since it was our first time, we didn't think to ask about it. Slowed us down substantially.
Also, two of the people were veterans with escape rooms so I don't think I really did much. In essence, it was a bad match of people for me with a poorly designed room.
I am a guide for an escape room company and at the beginning I always say to the people, that they can talk with me all the time, if they are not sure if they are allowed to do something. Sometimes a keypad gets stuck, most of them are not intended to open and close 200 times a day, so we have to replace them quite often and usually a group finds a malfunction before we do 😅
being a canadian, I love it when he includes a travel montage to Canada. I loved seeing, gretzky something and time hortons the most Canadian thing ever. Seriously!
3:17 actually one time I went to an escape room the staff were explaining the rules and said a rule which was "the pinky rule" if you could move something with your pinky it was a clue and they mentioned that one time people disassembled the air conditioner thinking it was a clue.
I hated people who dissambled anything especially when i told them not to do so or when there were labels stating not to touch it, those who did that I haven t helped them properly so they would not make it in time
I was in a room once, that had a home trainer bike in it. Me and my group were convinced something would happen if we would use it, like a light starting to shine or a curtain going up (revealing something). I literally biked for about 15 minutes, but nothing happened. It was just there as a red herring. We did eventually escape the room tho
I wouldn't say mostly, but math (or visual logic) is a significant portion of it. I've done a few escape rooms in China (they're crazy popular here) without speaking hardly any Chinese, and I'm only useful in about half the puzzles.
When I did one, they had a clock on the wall that was stopped at 6:10, we later found a watch in a safe, also stopped at that exact time.. we had no idea what it meant and it turns out it didn't mean anything. soo annoying lol
So I've done multiple escape rooms, sometimes getting out sometimes not, but after watching this video and applying the tips we did an escape room on NYE 2023 and did better than we ever have!! I made everyone in our group watch this b/c we were doing a harder escape room than last year (NYE tradition) and we made it out with like a minute last time, this room was rated harder and we got out with 15 minutes to spare only using 1 clue. So further proof these are great tips!
I have done a few escape rooms and went to one with a couple friends. They decided to take it easy because there was just one room, surely there can't have that many puzzles, right? Well, as I suggested early on, turns out the bookshelf was hiding a second room. We only had 15 minutes left when it opened
I'm not even sure I've done an escape room without there being multiple rooms in some way. Hidden in a wardrobe, through a second door, and players starting in separate rooms and work into a center one are ones I remember.
I did an escape room once. It was weird though. I didn't know they put live guards in rooms... The money in the vault was actually real though, and the police chase afterwards was so realistic. They even made it look like my buddy actually got shot! It was awesome
I did one where we were in a plane wreckage and it started off with the plane crashing and you are basically trying to get out of the plane alive and then send for help.
I did a horror escape room. These tips helped so much. Especially organizing the stuff. I was mostly making sure we were only using the items once and kept everything we used in one pile and items we didn't use yet in another pile - both organized. We made it out of the escape room with 13:50 to spare.
I did an escape room one time. It was me and my parents, with some other random families. We failed. Because no one communicated anything. We'd be working on a puzzle for a good while before someone finally told us they solved it. We almost made it, too. But the last puzzle required one person to read instructions to another, on how to unlock a box that had multiple locks that had to be unlocked in a certain order. My dad was trying to give the instructions but the other people kept telling instructions over him, confusing the person trying to unlock the box. Like, guys. Shut up. Only ONE person needs to read the instructions. Let him do it. Needless to say, it was a more frustrating experience than it needed to be. Definitely do an escape room with people you know.
I had the opposit happening to me and my team from work. We were used to work together and escaped the room with the 2nd best time ever recorded. We all had no clue or experience with escape rooms, but worked to gether for almost 4 years. So it brakes down to your group and how well they can work together without "big" emotional outbreaks ;)
"Don't look anywhere where it isn't logical to search" Me, in a prisonstyle escape room: Looks in the toilet, and in the back of it to find an important book.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention what in my opinion is the biggest piece of advice: don’t go opening random things for no reason or pulling random things off shelves. It gets messy and hard to keep track of what you really need to do. Instead start by focusing on things you can easily see around the room. Most of the time the first clue will be written on a wall, or there will be an open book or a newspaper, or a stopped clock, something that can give you an idea of what you’re looking for.
This is one of the best list and breakdowns I have ever seen. My wife and I have done >300 rooms around the world (83 countries) and we pretty much use the same rules. You are awesome Mark. Keep up the great content.
Me and my friends once did an escape room in about 5 seconds. We haven't even started searching, when one of them stood in the open door and shouted "I did it"... One of my friends was from Poland and just picked the lock 😂
Thanks to these tips, me and my friends were able to do far better than the majority of beginners in their first escape rooms… By finishing 1 minute over the time limit! We’re definitely going to pass the next escape room! Thanks for your advice dude! EDIT: Also, it was just three of us, and the owner was very impressed!
I just wanted to say, if you have any Disabilities, do not be afraid to let the attendant know. There are a few escape rooms I have been to that had a tunnel to crawl through into a second room. In every case ive just let them know and they have let me walk into the second room via the door, once we discovered it.
"No matter what the package says, you'll have a better time at half capacity" but what if the package says that the tent is intended for one person? Sounds painful.
EbonyUmbreon same! We were the only group to escape in the 8 rooms! We couldn’t turn the key in the door and we had 23 seconds to spare. We escaped with 8 seconds to spare! Soooo stressful!
I brute force the last digits of locks regularly in escape rooms, it's usually the smartest choice. I recently was in a room where you had to find numbers by weaving a string among some nails. We got three numbers, so I just forced the last one to move on. Game master later told me we were the first team to try that method. I was frankly surprised.
I’m commenting this late but I just wanted to say, this was actually very helpful because one time, I went to my friend’s birthday and we did the escape room and when I told them the tips we tried it and we made it in 39 mins!
1 slight amendment if ur gonna go do an escape room. For #2 when he said start searching immediately, beware, yes do search, but carefully and without messing things up as best as possible. We failed our room because there was a dart board and the first thing someone did was pull out the darts to look at them, and behind the board. Turned out the whole room revolved around knowing which initial positions those darts were in! So we lost! The point is, SEARCH CAREFULLY!
I work in an escape room and I've got to say, that's a very badly designed clue. Never put in a clue that relies on people to look before messing with it. And if you do, always include a way to put it back in the correct order. For instance, we have a radio that turns on to a morse code station, but the radio itself doesn't turn on until you do something else. The FIRST thing people will do with the radio is turn all the knobs. So usually all they get when they actually activate it is incoherent static. We have another clue close by that gives them the correct station to tune back to.
I actually read a Reddit post about someone doing an Escape Room where the guide said "you don't need to take anything apart to find any clues." ...And then they failed because one of the clues required them to open up (ie, take apart) a flashlight in the room.
Yeah, the first escape room I did they said "don't mess around with stuff, it should be obvious if it doesn't come apart easily it's not supposed to." Also "one of our guests once spent ages digging a brick out of a wall - you can still see it, just don't go and do stuff like that". The FIRST thing in the room was a solid looking wooden block that needed to be taken apart... Later on we literally had to take a brick out of a wall to get a key... *facepalm*.
Holy smokes, this video was accurate. I've done a few escape rooms before with blah results. But this time, our group studied this video and crushed our difficult room - 2nd-fastest time on record this year! We felt so darn pleased with ourselves :)
Oh, just yesterday, we just took on a "Difficult" room that was intended for 4-8 players...using a lot of these techniques. Just me and my wife. It was a BLAST. Thanks for the insights Mark!
The number of puzzles for 4-8 players will be reduced to 2 players if you're only having 2 players at my country. Unless you told the gamemaster you'd prefer it to be so.
In any good escape room there should be a translator in the room, so while it will of course be an advantage to know it you only really need to recognise it, which IMO is basic knowledge.
Another tip: Don't be like the boys I was grouped with on a middle school field trip to an escape room. If you get a sword, don't derail the entire rest of the group by attacking them with it for the final 20 minutes of the allotted time :/
This advice seemed really obvious to me, right up until I remembered the fact that I've worked at an escape room for two years. Yeah, these are pretty good tips.
I dunno, they seem pretty obvious anyway. There was nothing in this video that I wouldn't expect a normal group to do. Other than designate a team leader, which doesn't sound fun, ruining the point of an escape room: to have fun.
Rodin Gaming they might seem obvious but by design they have to be. They are general tips meant to apply to escape rooms in general, not a specific one or type. What did you expect to find?? And some people have fun out of competitiveness, so if designating a leader makes you faster then some people would have more fun doing that since their source of fun is achieving the fastest time they can. Thanks for listening to my ted talk.
When he was talking about the sticker on the bottom of the chair, I was reminded of a time when we had to enter in a code in a 10 digit keypad, but we didn’t know where the keypad was. Turns out, it was the keypad in plain sight in the middle of a wall that we thought was part of the building’s infrastructure. Great room.
I went to a local escape room a couple years back, there was a crank and the ceiling light comes down to reveal the baby you needed to find to win the puzzle lmao
I work at my local room, and theyre mixed XD, they make sure you know what to not take apart, but there is at least one room I know of in there so far that does require you to take apart something, which is a dresser XD
A friend of mine works within an escape-room. He told me the story of three or four boys walking in. He was explaining the rules, joked around, but they didn`t respond. When they entered the room, he knew: These are totally nerds like big-bang-Theory, being like: Okay, that`s the Templers-Riddle. Here`s that numbers-look. You order the pictures... Made it out in about half an hour.
I went to an escape room that looked like a prison, and I was so convinced that behind the toilet there was a secret room so I spent 20 minutes unscrewing the screws using my hands. Eventually it worked, and after we escaped we realised we skipped the actual puzzle to open the secret door. Long story short, if brain power doesn’t work, use brawn 😂💪🏼
did my first escape room last week (I forget about all these pieces of advice) just remembered watching this video waaaay back and came back. If any1 is curious we completed it with minimum amount of ppl (apperently it was super hard)
Totally agree on the topic of red herrings. The same is true for role playing games. A story is often structured similarly to an escape room and I want my players to have fun. To that end it's important that they feel good about solving a puzzle of some sort. Thus, any puzzle (in the loosest possible sense of the word) needs a reward, if only a tiny one. Otherwise the players get frustrated and start wasting time trying to figure out what puzzles are worth their time.
I like adding in ones that don't get in the way of the flow. One of my favorite was a crystal key on a small table near the main staircase in a mansion. Only one of the doors in the mansion had a crystal knob, but when the key was placed into the lock it was sucked in. The door refused to open. The key could be found after that back on it's table. IT could just be repeated ad infinitum.
StiflersMomTV I’m pretty sure that no one in an escape room wants to spend half the time in a escape room disassembling a toilet, unless the escape room is prison
I have completed over 20 escape rooms (I’m a little obsessed) Smaller groups are better....I usually don’t do rooms if there are more than 6 people. I usually just do them with one other person. I have only failed 2 rooms....one was with a group of 12 people so communication was horrible. And the other failed room was because they didn’t set the room up correctly. I agree with all the hints especially with organizing the room! People will try to use keys over and over again. Also there are two types of rooms...linear meaning one puzzle opens at a time so it works in a specific order and then non linear so you can solve multiple puzzles at the same time!
I would say that everyone working working on one puzzle can be counter intuitive at times. For example, there may be two different puzzles that have clues scattered around. So if you immediately hone in on one, you may miss clues for the second. In addition, its better to have everyone working on different ones instead of one singular, since then you can come up with solutions for all three in that time instead of one.
I just did an escape room where someone had broken a lock and it was the last clue. They had to pause the game and come fix it, which was a buzz kill, but still it was a really great game overall.
@@Zan_Chris I run a VR escape room and the damn thing crashed at the EXACT moment of the climactic ending... nothing you can do in that case. I just had to restart the whole thing
i like that he says that clues must be thing that an average person would find , and then proceeds to show us how to decipher morse codes created by the light
Bruh the “think simple” one is fr. I was in a room that had the letters “BEG” on a lock and we had to ask for a clue to find out that we were supposed to literally beg to the camera 😂
i heard that you can escape in less than 1 minute by having a panic attack in the corner.
JstnXIII, nice
Strategy I use
I was laughing for 20 minutes
I can indeed confirm this works and you might get a free cookie XD
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I went to an escape room. Found a key and it broke inside the lock. I sat there for 10 minutes before the staff came in and asked me why I wasn't doing anything. They had to get a lock cutter for me to get through to the next part. It was fun
Sad
Quality!!
Lol that’s sad but funny! 😆
Why did you just sit there?
@@VictorDomonik im ridiculously shy so i just waited for them to notice me doing nothing instead of doing anything myself
Sitting here in an escape room with my family crouded around my iphone watching this video, thanks.
Seems doubtful. Most all escape rooms prohibit the use of phones and therefore outside help
R/woooosh
I don't think you are telling the truth. You can't have a phone in a escape room it says that. Maybe you are being grounded and you locked in your room.
mutantfish r/wooosh
Tribe of the Iron Flame r/wooosh
As someone who works at an escape room, I can confirm that all of these tips are valid and EXTREMELY helpful! I already tell customers some of these, but I'll definitely be telling them the rest now!
Another tip I use is to not be afraid to ask for hints. At my job, we give unlimited, so people are usually more willing to ask for help. But even if you're limited and you're really stuck, some times one clue is all you need to continue the room.
I really want to go to one. I have a question please. How many people do I go with? Is there a person who works there in the room with us?
@@cccooper472 it depends on the room. Most of the ones I've done were with 4 or 5 people and it was perfect, but I know about one were you need to have between 8 and 10 participants (that is way less common). Also, in all of the ones I've been to you only see the person working there at the beginning to explain the story and at the end when you escape and they offer you a picture
@@cccooper472 💯
@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 You are being monitored at all times when in an escape room. There is a reason why there is always a security camera inside the room(s), and that is so that the employees can monitor and offer assistance if needed.
As an escape room enthusiast, I can say that most of these tips will keep you in the room forever. They are only suitable for very basic rooms for beginners.
In normal escape rooms, the puzzles can be much more difficult. Keys, codes, passwords, hints can be found in lamps, in sockets, and in the most unpleasant places. Sometimes locks need to be picked using master keys found.
I'm a laurier brantford student, Scott is my professor, he's the real deal. He makes us watch this video for the escape rooms class. Im a long time fan of his channel and finding out that you know my prof and have literally been in my classroom is awesome! This literally made my day.
THERES AN ESCAPE ROOM CLASS?? If they don't end up having that at UT Austin I'm going to be VERY disappointed
Whats your program?
..and that kids, is how you get an A+. 😅
Escape Room Class??
@@AceFaz yes indeed. We make an escape room and run it to the public. Lots of fun and we get to work with industry professionals and gain lots of experience.
I work in an escape room haha. For those of you who get frustrated about the red herrings, the thing is, they might not actually be red herrings. We are trained to make you escape the room so that you are proud of your achievement so sometimes when players take too long to solve some enigmas, we unblock others so that you move along to the end faster so that you are able to finish on time. In the escape room I work at, the rooms are designed not to have any red herrings but if players are not going fast enough, we can skip steps in the game so that they get the satisfaction of having escaped :)
You should be a story telling youtuber
I second this I’ve work in escape rooms for 5 years now, 3 different companies
How unsatisfying to know this....
I think red herrings are often unintentional and in the mind of the player. I've done about 20 rooms, and I've often found myself stuck on a prop that had nothing to do with the puzzle. That said, the prop clearly wasn't designed to be part of the puzzle, so I just read too much into things.
The one i work at, we dont let every group escape because we keep true to our escape rates. But our rules for us GM's is to get them 50% through the game and if there is some free time after their game has ended, we give them 15-30 extra minutes to try to escape the room. If they dont, we help explain things for them.
I work at an escape room and can not tell you the number of times people fail and get frustrated buy not following those tips. This video is 100% true, accurate and helpful!
They could also just ask for a hint though.
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@@eu6744bruh no need to be rude
is this reverse psychology
Yes! I was the only person who had ever done an escape room in my group of 6 last week. They were all obsessed with going suuuuuper deep doing math and periodic table things (it was biohazard theme). I had to keep telling them they would never make puzzles that hard requiring writing out math or remberjng a 20 digit code 😂
My wife and I did an escape room for our anniversary. I showed her this video before we went in. All these tips came in handy and we escaped with 2 seconds to spare. The room even had a few red herrings. Huge fan of all your videos. Keep up the great work 👍
i once went to an escape room, and on the bottom of a mug it said "made in china" and that was a clue
FFS
LMAO
Bruh
BRUTHA WHAT IN THE FRUNCK
It could have been Porcelain
*casually watches in quarantine with no chance of going to an escape room*
Ikr
Yes!!!
yes relatable
So true
We already are
That was a 10 second travel montage. You promised 6. You stole 4 seconds I'll never get back. How dare you
6 seconds of travel but 4 seconds of him there walking around :)
yea, unsubbed
Jeez only by 4 seconds.....
@@victoriacavallo5981 =)
He got there in 6 seconds
Hi!
I'm interviewing for a job as a Guide, having never done an Escape Room myself. Training is provided, of course, but we are given immediate raises based on how quickly we learn the rooms.
This is an awesome guide, thank you!! I feel much more prepared going in.
A tip for finding things an “average” person would know instead of going down rabbit holes: If the knowledge you have had to do with your profession, or is something that only certain groups of people would know, then it’s probably not the answer.
That makes sense, I did one that had to do with coding ( it was for business retreats) and I was like this doesn't seem like a thing, but all the coding people we're excited because it was. So if it's not for coding, it's probably not.
Exactly. I was in a escape room the other day and there was a rubix cube with numbers on certain boxes, when solved it revealed nothing even when put in color order or other kinds of combinations, while other puzzles that could be solved with no experience and with only clues and information found did eventually became a code that had to be translated into numbers which opened a briefcase.
This is usually true. The only exceptions I've found are when you could solve a puzzle without the knowledge, but special knowledge might get you there faster. For example, I went into an Egypt themed room where one of the puzzles was based on the heart weighing ceremony. Not common knowledge, but it helped me know which two things to put on the scales.
So the robber didn't hint at a V because not everybody knows geographic.
@@Secretcodrin There was most likely a globe in the room
i honestly wanna see the lockpicking lawyer do an escape room now, and just pick open every single lock and escape within 5 minutes.
there are a lot of escape rooms that don't use locks for everything
@@Nic_S. Well he can just lockpick the escape door ahahahahah
@@ARSaVaGE2626 The one I work in doesn't lock the people in at all, but if the people just leave, they obviously wont get what they paied for and they won't get on the leaderboard, because they didn't complete the objective (which can't be done by picking a lock, with the exception of one of our older games).
Siege gang
pixel me see a key pad
"I can make it there in a 6-second travel montage."
Proceeds to play 13 seconds of video.
Must have been the time zone difference.
69 likes don't ruin it
To his credit, he actually arrived in Canada within 6 seconds, the remaining time spent touristing.
MoonKent he was talking just about the plane
@@thelookingcat 609 now
No it was 15
1. Think simple, a well designed escape room won’t be that complicated
2. Search once you enter the room, but search carefully so you don’t mess things up
3. Organize your stuff, make sure you aren’t redoing clues
4. Focus on stops, you can do this, don’t think otherwise (work backwards and pull back your thinking)
5. Team roles, project manager, and certain people for certain clues
6. Lock types, know which lock is which and which codes they need
7. Code types, make sure you know short and long lines are braille
8. Written clues, look for abnormal patterns in writing
9. Look for patterns, this literally explains itself
10. Your guide is your friend, listen to instructions so you don’t royally mess something up
Thanks for saving me 10 minutes
Number 7, not braille, Morse code
@@EDhynh0 True
Thanks definitely will implement these when my family of 20 try an escape room
@@ll77l BRUH you missed a bunch of details
* watches this alone in my room with no escape rooms even remotely near my area*
escape your room
Same bro, same
same :(
Same
@@Maelin. alex literally just said that
I did an escape room with my cousin who is in the army. Instead of figuring out how to unlock the lock he just picked it and continued lol
That’s one way to do it
What a chad
I will keep that in mind if i ever do a escape room
I mean they don’t say you can’t pick the locks
@@a_human8489 thats true
The keep it simple one is true af. I did an escape room and a newspaper had a phrase on it that said “A murder in the hills! Neighbors say they heard TWO shots in the dead of night!” At this point I had a toy revolver and I was like “Surely it can’t be that simple” I pulled the trigger twice on the revolver and the coffin sitting in the corner of the room with a lock on it swung wide open to reveal a skeleton and three more clues lol.
dudeee thats such a creepy escape room
That’s awesome
I did that one!
How hard was the chess puzzle for you? We took about half our time on that puzzle
Where was this because that room sounds awesome
Final solve for an escape room I did was a number lock. To get the number, we had to solve a math equation, which we found by turning off the lights to the room and shining two different laser pointers at specific angles from two different spots in the room, and the various mirrors create the said math equation. Finding the laser pointers, where to put them, what angle to put them at, all required separate series of puzzles on their own.
Thats sounds really cool, love metapuzzles like that where the answers of the first puzzles feed into a bigger one.
I went to an escape room where they went through the rules, one of which was “don’t anything in holes in the wall and don’t pull anything out”
One of the puzzles literally involved putting your hand in a hole in the wall and pulling out a wooden plank, which we were stuck on for like 15 mins because we were told not to.
i hate this! this happened to me on my first escape room that i ever did and the first thing we had to try and solve was literally a lock behind the book shelf when we were specifically told to "not mess up the place badly and move any objects out of their original place unless its an actual clue". we were stuck on it for 15 minutes and we were all newbies to this but i was the railing compartment thingy for sliding doors connected to the book shelf but nobody allowed me to move it in fear from the instructions but once we call in for a clue, the staff went "have you seen the book shelf?" so annoying!
That is the clue. It's just one of the ways to give it to players without saying it out directly (well, they did tell you the clue outright, just worded it as if it's forbidden). They are watching you anyway so if you are doing somethings that you're not suppose to do or will mess up their system, they will tell you.
@@neyrrad277 that's just a poor excuse. Dont give "rules" that are meant to be clues and expect people to not just break more rules because you just told them that the rest of the rules are possible clues
@@ace-kz9id Maybe, but we don't know how the clue was given (I meant when in the induction, and in what tone did the keeper deliver them). If it's mixed in the middle of all other real rules, I'd say I agree with you and that's the stupidest clue ever. But if it's given at the very end just before the game started, and was quite out-of-the-blue, then it should ring the bell as it might not be what it seems.
@@neyrrad277 g
Tip: if there’s a painting, walk through it.
RennOrKai Minecraft boiiii
Only if I was make-believe, JIMMY DONT YOU STOP MAKING ME YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND.
Only for true Minecrafters.
Omg thank you for over 100 likes
RennOrKai woah. Technology!
I must be getting old, because I thought you were making a Mario 64 reference.
How many of you actually wanted to see them actually escaping out of an escape room?
Andrew Li
In my experience you’re not allowed to film :)
WHERE’S THE VID😢
they did
Andrew Li hey brother
everybody who clicked the video.
I had one room that had a difficult (to me) math problem that I couldn’t get. The room master said “PEMDAS!”. I screamed, “I LITERALLY FAILED MATH”
how you fail pemdas it is basic algerba
I am going to an escaperoom today I am gonna rob a bank :)
@@RonDoncombeit's not algebra it's priority of operations 😂 how you gonna make someone feel bad for not knowing and not even know it yourself
@@filyboy7 that's exactly was I was finna say
WTH is pemdas
i have never heard of it before, tho it sounds kinda similar to bedmas
I was doing an escape room and we were trying to find the key for something but then after 20 mins we realised that my dad was holding the key the whole time i was so mad lol 😂
Escape rooms can get people in fights. Believe me
One time we were in the Escape Room and we needed to unlock a door through some sort of codes using colours. Someone (could be even me) closed that door after making that code correctly and we were stuck in the first room for....30 minutes?
Robin Gillmore that’s nothing rlly funny
Lol that must be funny
@RobinGillmore It happens all the time. Communication is the most important 'key' for escaping.
Mark: *represents Canada in 3 seconds with Niagara Falls, a Tim Hortons and a Canadian flag*
Me, a canadian: "I consider this accurate"
Arastia Creations Niagara Falls has 2 sides
Arastia Creations yeah but (at least the part I live) snow
Lmao yeah I live in brantford and was like, yeppp that’s exactly how brantford is
@@markdavis7397 Wait until January, this is some of the warm winter temperatures haha
He also passed a Wayne Gretsky Parkway sign. I'd say that's also solid proof of being in Canada!
4:09 🔐 Hey, I work at an Escape Room and I have to say, it’s actually kinda frustrating when people put all the locks in a pile, because when we have to reset the room we now have to match the locks with where they go. If some locks look similar we have to pray that they didn’t scramble the lock afterwards otherwise it’s really easy to mix them up and put the wrong lock somewhere. Grouping other items you’ve used is fine but with locks you’re better off just leaving the lock in the hasp after you unlatch it.
Don’t send people to escape rooms then, it’s a tedious task for a corporate group to deal with. And I want to win!
thats what i just experienced. the person was continuing to say. “youll only use each clue once” it wasnt for their sake it was for my peace of mind knowing a clue or lock didnt pop up out of nowhere!
I used to watch Scott Nicholson's board game show back in the day. Certainly did not expect to see him pop up here. He seems like a very knowledgable, kind-hearted and soft-spoken guy. Great to know he's still around and doing what he loves!
I lost you at the “friends” part.
don't worry man, we're in the same boat
@@user-su6js9po4l
Yeah
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Same
Same
3:14 I only did an escape room once, but they did in fact hide a key inside the housing of a power outlet.
As someone who is making an escape room, I hate whoever did that with a passion.
He did say disassembling, so 🤷♂️
@@alexrife2799 Why? What's wrong with that, just don't make any of the ports live. - If you're going to design a proper escape room, everything you don't want anyone to mess with should be indestructible to a hammer etc - Use Rivets etc
@@Scientificmethods because people can't know it's not live.
You shouldn't need a screwdriver, which is required to remove the cover plate.
My boyfriend and I watched this video this morning before we did a 30 minute escape room this afternoon. We made it out with 8 minutes to spare! These tips really helped us divide and conquer
I would look at my phone wait for timer to end
"dont dissect a lamp searching for a clue" flashbacks to when one of my teammates dissected the radiator resulting in a flooding of the room and the entire room being shut down for weeks YEET
Turning the tide and making the staff escape is a form of winning in my book
We definitely won, the staff were so ashamed that it had happened so we didn't even have to pay for the room and we got to do any other room for free lmao
Hahahaha xD
On the other hand, I've escaped from a room that had a very realistic but fake power socket...
Lmao!
A tip I found very important (loosely related to tip 10) - if you suspect something's broken, make sure to ask the guide. For example, if a flashlight gives very little light don't assume that's part of the challenge and instead ask if it's right and if they could replace the batteries. As Mark said, the point is for you to enjoy, so if there's a problem like that - don't hesitate to ask!
Yeah, the only escape room I ever did was messed up to start with. Kinda annoyed.
Speed My first room had some problems, but we all were new, so we just went with it. That's where the flashlight example is from - we couldn't see anything and the guide had to tell us where to look, we then threw our glowsticks (which were there only so you can find the flashlight and batteries) there thinking it's supposed to be like that. Wasted our time there.
The first room I ever did had this problem. There was a blacklight we found and the batteries were on their last leg , giving us next to no power with it. Since it was our first time, we didn't think to ask about it. Slowed us down substantially.
Also, two of the people were veterans with escape rooms so I don't think I really did much.
In essence, it was a bad match of people for me with a poorly designed room.
I am a guide for an escape room company and at the beginning I always say to the people, that they can talk with me all the time, if they are not sure if they are allowed to do something. Sometimes a keypad gets stuck, most of them are not intended to open and close 200 times a day, so we have to replace them quite often and usually a group finds a malfunction before we do 😅
Just break the rules and they'll kick you out. You escaped!
LOL!!!!!
We once stuck my small hand through a locked drawer and got the key out, they didn’t kick us out
HAHAHHAHAHA
you also wasted your money!
Once we were in a escape room and the button was is a plastic box and someone slammed their hand on it
And it pressed
being a canadian, I love it when he includes a travel montage to Canada. I loved seeing, gretzky something and time hortons the most Canadian thing ever. Seriously!
Imagin spending like 20min on opening a chest, and you only find a paper that says “get trolled lol” in the chest
PAIN
@@Ascertivon you made me a you made me a believerl
Me: tries to figure out a clue from ‘get trolled lol’
@@notSwiftie believer
lol is that a real experience
Tip 1: Bring LockPickingLawyer
Tip 2: Escape through unlocked door
Big brain.
I was literally about to comment something like this
Ive been to an escape room that had electromagnetic locks.
Click on 1, 2 is binding...
@@lucheng1945 then you just need a rfid chip hacking device like flipper zero ;)
The people in my escape room are still in there a year later. My basement is a tough one I suppose
i-
R/cursedcomments
You’re very considerate for letting them take a long time too figure the puzzle out
Loooool
thats why you put them in the oven
3:17 actually one time I went to an escape room the staff were explaining the rules and said a rule which was "the pinky rule" if you could move something with your pinky it was a clue and they mentioned that one time people disassembled the air conditioner thinking it was a clue.
Instructions failed, Current status: Still in prison.
*Hol up*
strzax shhh im in a guard uniform dont pm me!
I got u in jailed for ruining over a Mark rober hater u?
@@nicecleandough1587 hey man, it's been two months. you got out yet? once you do, please let me out of the basement
@@abhikd1 wait how do you have a phone? and yes i broke out
me: *disassembles electrical outlet and dies*
friend: the clue is in the dead body
I hated people who dissambled anything especially when i told them not to do so or when there were labels stating not to touch it, those who did that I haven t helped them properly so they would not make it in time
me: fixes wires in electrical
friend: there is one imposter among us
up the nose we go
Technically, you escaped the room... LOL
Obviously gets recorded as a covid death.
I once went to an escape room with my friend on his birthday and we finished in 16 min because we unscrewed the doorknob. The employees weren't happy.
lol
Did they try to stop you through the mic?
@@dinosadecuadabdwho nkows
LMAO THIS GOT ME WHEEZING
at least you didn't broke their door, i mean u didn't destroy their door.. lol
I was in a room once, that had a home trainer bike in it. Me and my group were convinced something would happen if we would use it, like a light starting to shine or a curtain going up (revealing something). I literally biked for about 15 minutes, but nothing happened. It was just there as a red herring. We did eventually escape the room tho
"Me and my buddies escaped in 38 minutes" Do you remember that he used to work for Nasa?
Nikodem Bartnik that was my first thought when he said his buddies. Like who knew the mars rover team would be good at escape rooms.
escape rooms mostly math
Mars Rover Team.. Mark Rober Team...
I wouldn't say mostly, but math (or visual logic) is a significant portion of it. I've done a few escape rooms in China (they're crazy popular here) without speaking hardly any Chinese, and I'm only useful in about half the puzzles.
"Work the problem!"
When I did one, they had a clock on the wall that was stopped at 6:10, we later found a watch in a safe, also stopped at that exact time.. we had no idea what it meant and it turns out it didn't mean anything. soo annoying lol
Billy Hammerton oh my god the same thing was at my escape room...
Well except it was a code in the clock that said the same time. Did absolutely nothing
Anyone else click on his time stamp
I did one escape room and they had 3 full shelves of random puzzles and only one meant something
They tried to direct you to Scott Nicholson
How to escape an escape room: Crash through the nearest wall and shout OH YEAAAAH!
Lol tf
The fastest is to NOT go into an escape room
Oh no!
Nawty nawty coolaid guy.
I thought you were supposed to shout "LEROY JENKINS!"
So I've done multiple escape rooms, sometimes getting out sometimes not, but after watching this video and applying the tips we did an escape room on NYE 2023 and did better than we ever have!! I made everyone in our group watch this b/c we were doing a harder escape room than last year (NYE tradition) and we made it out with like a minute last time, this room was rated harder and we got out with 15 minutes to spare only using 1 clue. So further proof these are great tips!
I have done a few escape rooms and went to one with a couple friends. They decided to take it easy because there was just one room, surely there can't have that many puzzles, right? Well, as I suggested early on, turns out the bookshelf was hiding a second room. We only had 15 minutes left when it opened
Was it a Sherlock Holmes based one as that happened to me found another room ran out of time before figuring anything out
I'm not even sure I've done an escape room without there being multiple rooms in some way. Hidden in a wardrobe, through a second door, and players starting in separate rooms and work into a center one are ones I remember.
@@JondGames what are the chances of finding you in a random comment reply section! Damn am I lucky
I did one and the cork bord slid away revealing a second room
Same! That has happened to me twice. I wish that they would mention to you that there are two parts to the escape room.
This is good and all, but I prefer threatening the guide to tell me everything.
Neat trick!
I do believe that will work, just make sure not to murder them or anything”wink-wink”
Good trick!!
My family is big brain so my parents beet the hardest one with three clues
Sam's Everything Channel didn’t ask
I did an escape room once. It was weird though. I didn't know they put live guards in rooms... The money in the vault was actually real though, and the police chase afterwards was so realistic. They even made it look like my buddy actually got shot! It was awesome
nice....
I did one where we were in a plane wreckage and it started off with the plane crashing and you are basically trying to get out of the plane alive and then send for help.
Sounds so cool!!! I love immersive experiences like that. What escape room was it? It sounds like something me and my friends would enjoy.
@@kirakoraawesome it's called your local bank XD
cool
I did a horror escape room. These tips helped so much. Especially organizing the stuff. I was mostly making sure we were only using the items once and kept everything we used in one pile and items we didn't use yet in another pile - both organized. We made it out of the escape room with 13:50 to spare.
"Escape rooms HATE him! One man found these 10 SIMPLE TIPS to break out of any room!"
wait but he found it with escape room maker
bruh i wanna like but it’s at 666
*Picture of a man pointing a gun at an employee
I did an escape room one time. It was me and my parents, with some other random families. We failed. Because no one communicated anything. We'd be working on a puzzle for a good while before someone finally told us they solved it.
We almost made it, too. But the last puzzle required one person to read instructions to another, on how to unlock a box that had multiple locks that had to be unlocked in a certain order. My dad was trying to give the instructions but the other people kept telling instructions over him, confusing the person trying to unlock the box. Like, guys. Shut up. Only ONE person needs to read the instructions. Let him do it.
Needless to say, it was a more frustrating experience than it needed to be. Definitely do an escape room with people you know.
Some escape rooms don’t let you have less then a certain number and they put strangers in with you it is SO annoying
I had the opposit happening to me and my team from work. We were used to work together and escaped the room with the 2nd best time ever recorded. We all had no clue or experience with escape rooms, but worked to gether for almost 4 years. So it brakes down to your group and how well they can work together without "big" emotional outbreaks ;)
Pöpcørn Animations on my local escape room all rooms are private
Sounds like your family has some issues 🤐
Ashley Liu I’ve only done it with 7 and it wasn’t that bad but more then ten would be pretty chaotic.
"Don't look anywhere where it isn't logical to search"
Me, in a prisonstyle escape room:
Looks in the toilet, and in the back of it to find an important book.
It's logical to search there. Just not for a book
I know which escape room you're talking about!
Prisonstyle makes it logical, imo
Same
Lol wouldn't the book be wet? Or are you talking opening the tank and finding a book inside?
I’m surprised you didn’t mention what in my opinion is the biggest piece of advice: don’t go opening random things for no reason or pulling random things off shelves. It gets messy and hard to keep track of what you really need to do. Instead start by focusing on things you can easily see around the room. Most of the time the first clue will be written on a wall, or there will be an open book or a newspaper, or a stopped clock, something that can give you an idea of what you’re looking for.
This is one of the best list and breakdowns I have ever seen. My wife and I have done >300 rooms around the world (83 countries) and we pretty much use the same rules. You are awesome Mark. Keep up the great content.
Your life sounds fun!
If i ever get kidnapped, i'll try to contact you to help me escape 😂
Are you kidding me
Wierd flex but ok
WOW🤩
Me and my friends once did an escape room in about 5 seconds.
We haven't even started searching, when one of them stood in the open door and shouted "I did it"...
One of my friends was from Poland and just picked the lock 😂
LOL
That is the real way to escape an escape room everyone
I mean... Technically?
That’s not how it works and I’m 99% sure you made that up. But, ok...
@@spilledmilk5542 thanks for spilling it
"I'm the lock picking lawyer and today I'm breaking the record set by this channel."
Oh boy, I thought this SOOO hard when looking at all those locks lmaoo
Oh my gosh now I want to see him in an escape room video...
Everyone looking for clues when you suddenly hear a „click out of one, nothing on two, three is binding“
Underrated comment
I was just about to mention LPL in the comments lol
Thanks to these tips, me and my friends were able to do far better than the majority of beginners in their first escape rooms…
By finishing 1 minute over the time limit!
We’re definitely going to pass the next escape room! Thanks for your advice dude!
EDIT: Also, it was just three of us, and the owner was very impressed!
My friends and I stunk lol... we had one more clue but used 2 clues and time ran out.
I just wanted to say, if you have any Disabilities, do not be afraid to let the attendant know.
There are a few escape rooms I have been to that had a tunnel to crawl through into a second room.
In every case ive just let them know and they have let me walk into the second room via the door, once we discovered it.
yes those crawl in place made me a bit anxious
What to do with social anxiety disorder 😜 rip
@@Nayaaaaaaaa how does social anxiety effect crawling through a tunnel?
@@NoviceNovelties A lot my friend rip
@@Nayaaaaaaaa ?
"you won't need any special knowledge... just Morse code... and Braille... and ciphers...
SoLongSidekick they’ll give you a key somewhere in the room for Morse and Braille
Nah. The room always provides you the code key.
SoLongSidekick
And knowing your types of horses
Lol
In mine you needed football knowledge... f me
"No matter what the package says, you'll have a better time at half capacity" but what if the package says that the tent is intended for one person? Sounds painful.
Lol
Then you get a tent for two people
Looks like you beat me to that comment.
Then you use two of those tents as one person
How about a little person using that one? 🤔
Dr Nicholson is the first RUclips channel I ever watched about games! I was so pleased to see him.
My family did an escape room and won with 40 seconds to spare. The lady said it was the most intense one she’s seen in her time at that job.
EbonyUmbreon same! We were the only group to escape in the 8 rooms! We couldn’t turn the key in the door and we had 23 seconds to spare. We escaped with 8 seconds to spare! Soooo stressful!
I brute force the last digits of locks regularly in escape rooms, it's usually the smartest choice. I recently was in a room where you had to find numbers by weaving a string among some nails. We got three numbers, so I just forced the last one to move on. Game master later told me we were the first team to try that method. I was frankly surprised.
ShiningDialga sounds like the casino themed escape room at breakout
AbigailMano it sounds like the prehistoric Jurassic one by breakout
@@7vndayz924 That's exactly what I was thinking. I enjoyed that one. We finished that one with about 15 - 20min left I think?
I’m commenting this late but I just wanted to say, this was actually very helpful because one time, I went to my friend’s birthday and we did the escape room and when I told them the tips we tried it and we made it in 39 mins!
cool!
But...but... quarantine
@@mattirel they could be in New Zealand or some other country that actually has covid under control.
H. Young
Possible
@mattirel. And he/she said “I’m commenting this late” so... read the comment fully, or the first 4 words on this one then disied to reply... °~°
I like the quote at the end, "no matter what the package says you'll have more fun at half capacity."
1 slight amendment if ur gonna go do an escape room. For #2 when he said start searching immediately, beware, yes do search, but carefully and without messing things up as best as possible. We failed our room because there was a dart board and the first thing someone did was pull out the darts to look at them, and behind the board. Turned out the whole room revolved around knowing which initial positions those darts were in! So we lost! The point is, SEARCH CAREFULLY!
I work in an escape room and I've got to say, that's a very badly designed clue. Never put in a clue that relies on people to look before messing with it. And if you do, always include a way to put it back in the correct order. For instance, we have a radio that turns on to a morse code station, but the radio itself doesn't turn on until you do something else. The FIRST thing people will do with the radio is turn all the knobs. So usually all they get when they actually activate it is incoherent static. We have another clue close by that gives them the correct station to tune back to.
Yeah that's a poorly designed room if you can destroy the clues.
They should make it so that the darts are glued to the board
Bad design
Sounds like that wouldn't be a fun room even for experts. If the primary clue was that poorly done, I can only imagine how bad the rest of it was.
3:14
*Remembers me disassembling an innocent table lamp*
I actually read a Reddit post about someone doing an Escape Room where the guide said "you don't need to take anything apart to find any clues."
...And then they failed because one of the clues required them to open up (ie, take apart) a flashlight in the room.
I took apart an innocent lamp too! My friends and I still laugh about that lol.
Yeah, the first escape room I did they said "don't mess around with stuff, it should be obvious if it doesn't come apart easily it's not supposed to."
Also "one of our guests once spent ages digging a brick out of a wall - you can still see it, just don't go and do stuff like that".
The FIRST thing in the room was a solid looking wooden block that needed to be taken apart...
Later on we literally had to take a brick out of a wall to get a key... *facepalm*.
That lamp had a family ...... ( T T )
I once dissasembled a whole nightstand doing this
Now I can Help my dad escape the one he’s been in for 5 years thanks
LOL
Did you save him?
haha that's called jail
What’s a dad?
@@egowafle4511 a dad is something you need to make babies
This was so useful to know! Mark always has our backs
"step 0: Every tool's a hammer. "
Adam Savage
What about concrete walls hm
a cultured individual. Nice to meet you sir.
Ok I’ll remember that next time
“Step 0: A knife is needed in an escape room.”
-Me
Me: never went to any escape room and not planning to
Also me: nice tips
lol me too.
Is a rubric cube that dissolves when you solve it and it gives you a key to a door because your cousin trapped you in the basement?
Yep
I know right now do you even find escape rooms?
Sameee
Everybody gangsta until a voice in an escape room says *"I wanna play a game"*
John Michael Ligtas gasp wanna smash bros ultimate Kirby v Kirby???
@@asian_sensation_6998 More like old school puppet rolling in on miniature antique bikes.
Remember the rule number 10!
"Your guide is Your friend!"
I did the SAW escape room in Las Vegas. It was pretty good, we finished with like 30 seconds left.
Holy smokes, this video was accurate. I've done a few escape rooms before with blah results. But this time, our group studied this video and crushed our difficult room - 2nd-fastest time on record this year! We felt so darn pleased with ourselves :)
Oh, just yesterday, we just took on a "Difficult" room that was intended for 4-8 players...using a lot of these techniques. Just me and my wife. It was a BLAST. Thanks for the insights Mark!
DId you become the project manager and let her do all the puzzles lmao
@@mralumina3566 LMAO
How'd you do Frank?
The number of puzzles for 4-8 players will be reduced to 2 players if you're only having 2 players at my country. Unless you told the gamemaster you'd prefer it to be so.
'You just need the most basic of knowledge!'
Also look for braille, Morse code and ancient hieroglyphics!
In any good escape room there should be a translator in the room, so while it will of course be an advantage to know it you only really need to recognise it, which IMO is basic knowledge.
@@SimonErfurth WHOOSH Just a joke :p
MrMusicVault you're just annoying why would you joke about this if mark says in the video that there should be a reference
@@trawa0825 cuz its funny and 162 other people think so, :D calm down it's Christmas time little man!
MrMusicVault i am very mad and cannot rest right now judging by the words i used. i am also really little and short
Step 1: Bring a stick of dynamite.
Step 2: Walk away from the explosion while putting on sunglasses.
Or a Hulk.
@@sri.sai3 Step 3: Profit.
Sridhar Poguluru step 5: cool guys don’t look at explosions
Are u like Justin y
Another tip: Don't be like the boys I was grouped with on a middle school field trip to an escape room. If you get a sword, don't derail the entire rest of the group by attacking them with it for the final 20 minutes of the allotted time :/
This advice seemed really obvious to me, right up until I remembered the fact that I've worked at an escape room for two years.
Yeah, these are pretty good tips.
I dunno, they seem pretty obvious anyway. There was nothing in this video that I wouldn't expect a normal group to do. Other than designate a team leader, which doesn't sound fun, ruining the point of an escape room: to have fun.
Rodin Gaming they might seem obvious but by design they have to be. They are general tips meant to apply to escape rooms in general, not a specific one or type. What did you expect to find?? And some people have fun out of competitiveness, so if designating a leader makes you faster then some people would have more fun doing that since their source of fun is achieving the fastest time they can. Thanks for listening to my ted talk.
Not two years jet, but yeah me to. The time people wast because of poor comunication or thinking to complex...
lol
Where is it
When he was talking about the sticker on the bottom of the chair, I was reminded of a time when we had to enter in a code in a 10 digit keypad, but we didn’t know where the keypad was. Turns out, it was the keypad in plain sight in the middle of a wall that we thought was part of the building’s infrastructure. Great room.
Mark Robers next video: How to escape prison
Tracks Down Pablo Escobar
Michael Schofield?
he has to find el chapo
@@nobodyimportant5368 😂
Panlo Escobar has been in a grave for decades
Otoskire The great that's what they want you to think
Mark: "you wont find clues by disassemble ceiling lights"
People who make escape rooms after this video: *i outsmart your outsmarting.*
i'm asking myself if i'm crazy, because i think this is a jojo reference
@@yunyun-rg1kg I S T H I S A J O J O R E F E R E N C E
“You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting”
I went to a local escape room a couple years back, there was a crank and the ceiling light comes down to reveal the baby you needed to find to win the puzzle lmao
I work at my local room, and theyre mixed XD, they make sure you know what to not take apart, but there is at least one room I know of in there so far that does require you to take apart something, which is a dresser XD
Im doing an escape room in two days and ive watched this video a few times since it was uploaded, but here I am again!
1:28
Ah, the most well known monument of Canada, Tim Hortons.
And the best ;)
Was that sarcastic, or..
maybe not the best, but definitely iconic
What about the Wayne Gretzky Parkway? 1:29
No Tim Horton’s is our monument. Nothing else at all.
A friend of mine works within an escape-room.
He told me the story of three or four boys walking in. He was explaining the rules, joked around, but they didn`t respond.
When they entered the room, he knew: These are totally nerds like big-bang-Theory, being like: Okay, that`s the Templers-Riddle. Here`s that numbers-look. You order the pictures...
Made it out in about half an hour.
It's "Templar Cipher" - which is exactly the type of pigpen cipher Mark mentioned, only based on Maltese cross
I went to an escape room that looked like a prison, and I was so convinced that behind the toilet there was a secret room so I spent 20 minutes unscrewing the screws using my hands. Eventually it worked, and after we escaped we realised we skipped the actual puzzle to open the secret door. Long story short, if brain power doesn’t work, use brawn 😂💪🏼
JESUS! Did you just HAPPEN to have a screwdriver with you?!?
Edit: Oh, you used your bare hands. Somehow, that's 10 times worse.
Zahra Onsori I went to a prison that looked like an escape room because I brought 2 glocks to the room and told the guide to tell me. He’s dead now
Zahra Onsori bruh
Why would they make it that hard?? 🤦🏻♀️😂
did my first escape room last week (I forget about all these pieces of advice) just remembered watching this video waaaay back and came back.
If any1 is curious we completed it with minimum amount of ppl (apperently it was super hard)
Totally agree on the topic of red herrings. The same is true for role playing games. A story is often structured similarly to an escape room and I want my players to have fun. To that end it's important that they feel good about solving a puzzle of some sort. Thus, any puzzle (in the loosest possible sense of the word) needs a reward, if only a tiny one. Otherwise the players get frustrated and start wasting time trying to figure out what puzzles are worth their time.
I like adding in ones that don't get in the way of the flow. One of my favorite was a crystal key on a small table near the main staircase in a mansion. Only one of the doors in the mansion had a crystal knob, but when the key was placed into the lock it was sucked in. The door refused to open.
The key could be found after that back on it's table. IT could just be repeated ad infinitum.
yea like give us a snack or something
3:17 I found a clue one time by dissasembling a toilet😂
Wow they need to make it more simple
@@alolanpikachu7330 No. Depends on the setting and difficulty you're playing on.
@@RyosukeTakahashiRX7 Also disassembling could be anything from taking out 1 lose screw to actually disassembling it in 15 steps.
StiflersMomTV I’m pretty sure that no one in an escape room wants to spend half the time in a escape room disassembling a toilet, unless the escape room is prison
Lmao
I have completed over 20 escape rooms (I’m a little obsessed)
Smaller groups are better....I usually don’t do rooms if there are more than 6 people. I usually just do them with one other person. I have only failed 2 rooms....one was with a group of 12 people so communication was horrible. And the other failed room was because they didn’t set the room up correctly.
I agree with all the hints especially with organizing the room! People will try to use keys over and over again.
Also there are two types of rooms...linear meaning one puzzle opens at a time so it works in a specific order and then non linear so you can solve multiple puzzles at the same time!
Samantha Hill relatable here, except I’m still bad at solving the rooms lol
To long
Samantha Hill I live them too! I find that the best amount of people is 3
tasha trouble IN SHORT: She likes small groups. She agrees with the video.
Don't help them, that was barely a paragraph of text. Don't feed the lazy people...make them walk to the fridge.
I would say that everyone working working on one puzzle can be counter intuitive at times. For example, there may be two different puzzles that have clues scattered around. So if you immediately hone in on one, you may miss clues for the second. In addition, its better to have everyone working on different ones instead of one singular, since then you can come up with solutions for all three in that time instead of one.
Followed all the tips and ended up tunneling into a bank, I told them those shovels were red herrings
Best tip: Take LockPickingLawyer with you.
My friend found some scrap metal while we were waiting outside for the other class to finish (we were seperated in 3 groups) and he picked 3 locks
Minke brand
Lolz I’m dead
-.-
Minke Brand one time we picked a lock, and they were like okay lets have the key, And we all just stood there. we got kicked out
Minke Brand R/madlad
I work at an escape room and some of these comments about people breaking locks/skipping puzzles are giving me SO much anxiety 😂
Anna Fanning omg same
...same
Anna Fanning same!!!
I just did an escape room where someone had broken a lock and it was the last clue. They had to pause the game and come fix it, which was a buzz kill, but still it was a really great game overall.
@@Zan_Chris I run a VR escape room and the damn thing crashed at the EXACT moment of the climactic ending... nothing you can do in that case. I just had to restart the whole thing
i like that he says that clues must be thing that an average person would find , and then proceeds to show us how to decipher morse codes created by the light
Bruh the “think simple” one is fr. I was in a room that had the letters “BEG” on a lock and we had to ask for a clue to find out that we were supposed to literally beg to the camera 😂
are u sure thats an escape room tho
lol
that’s so embarrassing HAHAHA just imagine going up to a camera saying “please let us out please let us out please🥺🥺🥺”
That's weird
This was very useful in escaping, I don't know what this "escape room" thing is all about though.
Underrated comment
‘Hol up
Wait
Ohhhhhh my god go back they are gonna find you
Wait
"You'll have a better time at half capacity"
Me who has a tent for 1 person
Better get the saw
Haha, time to get a caravan! 😆
It sounds like you have an overly ambitious sleeping bag.
Hiiiii goku!!!!!
because it is for the dog