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Fans of escape room challenges can take that love of puzzle solving outdoors throughout August and soak up the sunshine –along with the clues– as Gastown adventure game company SmartyPantz is releasing a weekly series of brain teasers and puzzles to be solved while walking the streets of Vancouver. Continue reading:
Gastown Escape Roomers Launch SmartyPantz Scavenger Hunt Across Vancouver
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Looking for an “escape” from everyday fun in Vancouver?
Downtown’s first escape gaming room has opened … or should I say locked … its doors. SmartyPantz, located on Abbott Street in Gastown, offers five different themed rooms to escape from – ranging in difficulty from “moderate to diabolical.”
Not familiar with the escape room phenomenon? Inspired by video games, these real-life amusement centres are popular around the world but just taking off in North America. In essence, they’re places where groups of people go to be locked inside a themed room – like a mummy’s tomb or a haunted mansion. The group then has to pick up clues, solve puzzles and pool their brainpower to get out before time expires, generally after 30-60 minutes. Continue reading:
Want to be Trapped in for Fun? Downtown Vancouver’s First Escape Room Opens
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Good at puzzles? This may be right up your alley.
Downtown Vancouver is getting its first escape room. Popular around the world but just starting to pop up in North America, escape rooms are dedicated attractions where a group of people pay to be locked up inside a themed room – say a mummy’s tomb or a haunted mansion. The idea is to use teamwork to solve a series of puzzles and piece together intricate clues in order to escape before time expires, generally after 30-60 minutes. Though they’re inspired by video games, escape rooms are real-life rooms where you’re really trapped inside.
Richmond already has one of these escape room attractions and now Vancouver is getting in on the act with a 3,200-square-foot facility opening in Gastown in early 2015. Continue reading:
Downtown Vancouver is Getting its First “Escape Room” Attraction
Would you pay to escape from prison? (Pictured here: a cell from the former State Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho) Photo credit: Mr.Thomas | Flickr
Would you pay $92 to be locked in a prison cell with three friends for 45 minutes?
That’s the premise behind Exit, Metro Vancouver’s first “escape gaming” experience. Popular in Japan and China, escape rooms force participants to solve elaborate clues in order to break out of their confinement. The rooms themselves are often elaborately decorated to look like scenes from the past or horror movie sets.
Exit, located in an unassuming strip mall in Richmond, brings the phenomenon to Canadian shores. It offers guests four different themed rooms to choose from: the prison cell, an Ancient Egyptian tomb, a lost ship and a mad scientist’s laboratory with blood-spattered walls.
Since opening last fall, the facility has been doing a brisk business. Continue reading:
Trapped! (for fun): Asian-style Escape Game Rooms Come to Vancouver
