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Why are escape rooms such a popular activity?
In an age where so much of our time revolves around our screens, room escapes provide an antidote by presenting a themed activity where a group of family, friends or co-workers get together to interact with the physical world to solve puzzles and logic problems while attempting to achieve a common goal.
Room Escapes are appealing on many different levels. Two recent articles in major media outlets try to explain why.
The Great Escape
from Vox
There are few desires more deeply human than the desire to escape whatever reality you’re in. The problem is not the details of any particular life — and the nicer your life is, the more resources you have to escape it — but rather the limits of being a person. You are stuck with you. It is a precondition of existence, like the need to pee.We have spent the past several millennia coming up with ways to flee our reality, at least temporarily. “What is there in culture,” wonders the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, “that is not a form of escape?” As evidence, he cites glass-tower cities, suburbs, good books, shopping malls, movies, communal feasts, gardens, vacations, and Disneyland. To that you could add music, theater, video games, podcasts, theme parks, haunted houses, extreme sports, Instagram, pornography, and improv comedy. Also, escape rooms.
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Why escape rooms have a lock on the U.S.
from USA Today
On its surface an escape room doesn't sound fun: You pay decent money to get locked in a windowless room.But factor in quality time spent with friends, the chance to show off puzzle-solving skills, the adrenaline rush fueled by a faux-high-stakes game and a guaranteed photo-op, and you can see why escape rooms have become a popular American pastime.
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For Fox in a Box - Chicago's take on reasons to play escape rooms, read about ways escape rooms can help family bonding, how they are a great multi-generational activity, and how they can be an effective tool for workplace team building.
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