A friend of our's hosted her spouse's 45th birthday there. It was really fascinating...and fun! So all she told us was that we would be given a series of puzzles we had to solve to get the key to get out of the room. My first question was, "Do they serve alcohol at this place? Because it seems highly possible we might all find permanent homes there."
Turns out, the smart people at The Puzzle Room do not serve alcohol (I know..a bit of a bummer...but trust me. You need all of your brain cells for this. But you might likely need alcohol afterward.). And there is a time limit to the puzzle - 1 hour. So if you don't solve the puzzle in that amount of time, they free you. BUT you do not get your picture on the Winners wall. Well, challenge accepted then.
So the host gave us a brief list of rules and items that were off limits (i.e. ceiling tiles and outlets). What was I getting myself into? The very idea that he needed to tell me not to remove an outlet cover or a ceiling tile was making me a little concerned. Then, he gave us a 1 minute situation assessment. Basically, there were super villains involved in a mystery that we had to solve. What? That's all we got? Then, he let us into the room and that was it. The room was filled with lots and lots of stuff. So now what? But that was all that we got. We were supposed to look through the room to find clues as to what we were supposed to do.
So at this point, I have to get a little vague. They asked us to not reveal any secrets because this puzzle will be there for awhile, and they don't want people revealing the clues. But I can tell you that we had 7 relatively intelligent adults that searched around the room for at least 10 minutes before having any idea what we were doing. Gradually, we identified a series of mysteries that needed to be solved. Once we solved those, we got enough information to get to the big mystery. Along the way, our host did give us clues (when we were close to figuring something out) by writing a cryptic message on a white board. Thank goodness for these or we would never have gotten even close.
In the end, we did not solve the final mystery. We were VERY close though. We needed about 5 more minutes, and we would have been there.
My takeaway is this is a GREAT team building activity and a fun alcohol-free party activity. But definitely bring your thinking cap! There's no sitting back and relaxing in a puzzle room.
Here are some local Austin places who offer this activity -
http://texaspanicroom.com/austin/
http://lockdownaustin.com/
http://www.puzzleroomaustin.com/
http://theseventhroom.com/
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