Weirdest Things That Happened at Escape Rooms

escape the room employees what is the weirdest thing you've seen someone do in one of the rooms the most depressing crap i saw was a tired looking couple who brought in their bespectacled nasa shirt wearing eight-year-old geek of a son and to have some fun the parent couldn't have been more discouraging to him he was excitedly bouncing around the room pointing out things that he thought were clues clues while the parents dismissed every idea he had and told him to stop getting so excited the parent took charge and proceeded to ignore the obvious clues he was pointing out and spent most of the time pursuing dead ends sad part is his instincts were more often than not correct but his parents just didn't listen and refused to let him explore and try stuff out hopefully his curiosity and enthusiasm survives them i feel like if it were in my power in any way the kid would have led his parents right through the damn thing oh wait i thought of another one so we do proposals ring in the final puzzle box proposal signs whole package deal people love it dude calls up to set up a proposal i ask what room he wants etc so then i tell him the total price to book out the entire room for the proposal he says he just wants to buy the two tickets for him and his girlfriend i tell him we can't have strangers playing a game that their experience is impacted altered by the fact that there's a proposal going on proposal happens in an escape room there's no longer a game it becomes about the proposal i know this because i've seen it happen a hundred times anyway dude refuses to buy out all of the tickets says he wants strangers to be there he's not going to buy the other four tickets i hand the phone to my manager they hash out details together over the next three weeks leading up to the proposal this guy calls every single freaking day there's nothing else to figure out we've got it all set up but this guy is constantly badgering us the big day rolls around he arrives early so he can hide out and this dude is a kid like pimple-faced voice cracking where growing in weird places kind of kid everybody in the control room is talking about him because he's been a thorn in our collective sides for weeks and we're speculating about telling him marriage at his age is a horrible idea but whatever it's too late so he hides the girl and her friends show up they get started and we stash the dude in the second hidden room that they'll eventually end up in everybody crowds around the monitor to watch and this guy pulls out a bouquet of flowers and unfurls a sign that says name redacted will you go with me to prom and the entire staff loses their collective crap weeks of constant pestering endless phone calls and the most stressful proposal deal we've ever put together for a freaking chrome puzzle she said no cheers for the girl saying no at our establishment we have a room called jailbreak with a fake door towards the very end it's covered with plywood this girl takes one look at it and says jail break and charges the door full force and breaks through just started working at escape the room and we have rules about not jumping out the windows and not sticking keys into wall sockets because it has all happened before escape room employee here in one of our rooms we have an actor pose as a spy and the people in the room had to solve a case to figure out who the traitor was after they finished the puzzles it turns out the traitor was actually the spy the actor was playing the spy then pulls an obviously prop gun orange tip and whatnot and the group has to defuse a fake bomb one of the groups that did this room was a police squad that was doing this to bond when the actor pulled the fake gun and said some cheesy lines the actor was promptly tackled and restrained until the cops realized it was all again someone cleared all the boxes and locks off of a table in the corner lay down on it and went to sleep until the group escaped reminds me of my group projects in college i own an escape room and i once guided couple into one of our more moody ambience room and they told me we would totally base a sex dungeon off this vibe but see you even have a desk in here to get started also you see people's true parenting skills my favorite quote is from a lovely family that went into a room in five minutes and the father gathered his over-eager children and told them you're being buttholes we're in a huge tech area and we get a lot of corporate groups with some very important people a week ago we had a fortune 500 ceo through and he walked up to my staff and started bragging about his 50 000 instagram followers basically trying to impress college kids we definitely giggled about that one especially when we looked him up and he had like 300 followers but hey he killed it in the room i have a daughter who is almost two and in all fairness a lot of the time she is in butthole escape room employee here we have a game that has wooden floors and guests regularly try to pull up the nail down floorboards with a hammer that's in the room thinking they'll find clues also one time i asked the group if they had ever played an escape game before and an elderly gentleman responded one time my wife tied me up and gagged me does that count his friends thought it was hilarious but the high school couple that was obviously on a first date they were paired up with did not find it as funny a rare moment of role reversal glad to see even the elderly can be gross like that we give people a box for them to bring in so they can store their belongings while they play one time about halfway in an inquisitive older man started going through their own stuff he pulled out a person shouts guys guys i found some this is our stuff isn't it it was hilarious some reason people like to put the flashlight that one of our rooms has in their mouth when they know they aren't the only ones who have used them some people put them between their legs in the crack of their butt as a joke and not to mention just roll around the ground a majority of the time besides that i've seen relationships almost fall apart one couple insisted on going into our most challenging room just the two of them and we let them know this was probably not going to be a good idea or enjoyable for them but they didn't really care you could tell the guy wanted to impress the girl but both of them were dumber than rocks i had to sit for an entire hour watching them get literally nowhere through the first puzzle arguing with each other and then sitting in moments of awkward silence i offered to give them help and said i would just tell them if they wanted at this point but they refused also people love to not listen to our disclosure we have to give before we send groups into rooms and kick in our air vents and break through our drywall and ceilings when we specifically say not to input tape that says not a part of the game in bright yellow colors the bright yellow is the problem if you want someone to leave it alone you have to make it as dull as possible like don't even use all caps source made panels with buttons the wrong ones always got pushed first if they were colorful employee here one group gave up after five minutes and decided to drink alcohol rest of the game they paid 120 euros for the game it was only a one-off escape room i designed for a university society event but one guy was so desperate to find clues he tried to disassemble the wooden casing around the radiator it scared me because i didn't own the room we were doing this in so i could have been on serious trouble finally my time to shine we had a group that was evidently high they weren't disruptive or anything so we just briefed them and took them to their room so far so good we have cameras and microphones inside the rooms that way we know what hints to give out another important thing is that the room they were at had a small fountain and since the particular aesthetic of this room was dusty that water was filthy i'm talking murky brown yellow mud water at one point one of the guys says he is thirsty and proceeds to stick his mouth onto the fountain stream and take a hefty gulp of the crap water we spend a second off shock guff 4 and tell them that drinking the freaking water isn't part of the puzzle the guy reads the hint and just says that's all right he proceeded to do the same thing four times and drank the whole fountain small fountain but still like a gallon of mud water we've had more inconvenient things happen but that still remains is the worst thing i've ever seen this is so much worse than all the sex ones went to an escape the room with some friends on friday my one friend took his shirt off four times the crazier thing that happened though was how we solved it we were supposed to get the word waterloo from a series of clues and use a dictionary to find that the battle of waterloo was in 1815. use that four-digit number to get a key that let us out of the room while we got the word eataloy instead of waterloo we assumed that it was an anagram and we used a word scrambler to get the word error light from it using the dictionary we found that aerolite was invented in 1815. well we got the key and we confidently told the employee how we figured it out he was dumbfounded i'm not exactly sure what the odds of solving the room like this is but if someone could solve that for us that'd be dank my friends and i have been trying to figure it out since it happened did a space station themed room we got paired with a mother and her adult sons the sons did just fine but mom was clueless there was a prop fire extinguisher on the wall that she was certain had to be for something for an hour she wandered around aimlessly carrying a fire extinguisher fire extinguisher on the wall that she was certain had to be for something for an hour she wandered around aimlessly carrying a fire extinguisher mom sounds like she played a lot of early 1990s computer adventure games use fire extinguisher on door that doesn't work that way use fire extinguisher on stairs nothing happens i worked at a room escape place for a year in grad school i learned very quickly to give thorough warnings at the start of each show that breaking things assaulting actors this was trapped in a room with a zombie and sexual harassment were not cool yes literally had guys harris the freaking zombie mid show perhaps the most interesting phenomenon i noticed was just how much personality factors into the teamwork involved i've seen a lot of shy people or people otherwise lacking in confidence be completely on the right track only to be steamrolled by the loudest more confident strongest personalities in the room maybe it shouldn't have come as so much of a surprise but i watched perfectly smart reasonable people actively ignore good points logic and strong evidence in service of a cult of personality of charismatic players the whole thing felt like a depressing study on group dynamics finally an ask credit i can help with i have too many stories for the escape room i help manage one situation quickly came to mind when i read this in our prison style escape room we have a laser maze that players need to crawl climb through to deactivate and move forward two players are required to finish also i thought the laser maze because there are three buttons to be pressed where the third button is out of reach from the other two a family came in to play our game with a younger boy a very fit relevant girl in her early twenties their parents and their grandfather who had some disability that required him to use those crutches that wrap around your forearms so they play through and get to the laser maze the girl got through fairly easily but they needed to move fast since the timer was running but the young boy had a great idea here use grandpa's crutch at which point he takes a crutch straight from grandpa and slides it past all the lasers to his sister at the other end i was fascinated at this point but even with the crutch it was a long stretch to hit them all the girl took a second to find the right spot on the floor planted her foot there went into a perfect perpendicular stretch with one foot on the ground one foot on the far button on hand on the middle button and finally reaching the last button with the crutch that family came out of the room so proud and she boasted to the family about her daily yoga almost convincing me to sign up for yoga because it was so impressive that was one of the most creative and weirdest successful solutions to a puzzle i've seen in my years working there actual escape games employee oh boy do i have tails pair of drunk and female 20 somethings were dragged along to a group event proceeded to demand dj services and cartwheel and skirts before collapsing to the ground and splaying out odd time a room of ours has a one-hitter as past of our props a lady attempted to steal it by slowly moving it out of sight as conspicuously as possible we insinuated that their next clue was inside the bowl and she left out of embarrassment after she surrendered it to her group a customer opened a cryptex at the beginning of the game figured out how the mechanism was set the reset it to a secret word and closed it i guessed penis it was penis case closed those are the honest but the job is full of odd behavior strange social situations and bizarre experiences you see a lot of curious behaviors when people forget how they're presenting themselves i personally find group social standings super interesting girls you're right about half the time about half of the guys that come through are super dismissive of things you say bonus points if you sound dumb not if you are dumb just if you sound like um kind of like a valley girl or if you speak with a questioning inflection you know because you can have the right answer written and proved and people won't listen to you it's incredible how much of a family dynamic you can see at play when puzzles get tough you see kids get praised grounded elated yelled at it's awful to see little jimmy investigating a false bottom box and his dad angrily tells him to stop touching stuff people forget the rule about using very little force always one of our rooms has a set of fake doors that don't open or go anywhere i've watched a guy pry it off the wall before i could stop him each clue is tailored to where you are and how you are too so i can have more fun with groups that have some humor but i also type out these clues more than twice i've had to call into rooms because after asking for a clue a woman will try and convince me to give them a clue for flashing the camera but the clue is already on its way and as fun as it sounds i don't want to convince anyone they get clues by flashing me i wear a beard and for this job i now have a heavily curled mustache people ask me if it's fake very often escape room employee here i've had about 150 groups in my room and the weirdest are the ones where people solve the main puzzle and just don't leave the room they have found the key or device they need to leave and just wander around clueless oh jesus how can i forget this one a little 12 year kid came up to me before the room and asked are you in the room with us i replied no but i'll be in the control room to which he replied okay good so we can torture you when you don't give us any good hints when they were in the room he proceeded to say give us some good hints you rotting child another one some guy was convinced something was hidden under a chair that was screwed to the floor he started kicking it had to stop the game and go into the room to tell him he should stop doing that one time a guy brought his own flashlight had to tell him that is against the rules of the game one time a guy ripped the green laser out of its very secured spot in the room had to stop the game and tell him to put it back had a girl freak out because of the music and got her out asap yeah you really get a taste of all layers of society inside these rooms i have way way more stories give us some more good stories you rotten child we used to have a giant banana as a mascot and once we had a group of kids that were intoxicated and the one of the guys in the room started crying so we decided to let him hold it so the guy cuddled with it on the ground and fell asleep about 10 minutes into the game had the time of his life like most rooms we have cameras all throughout the game so we can keep any isle players give hints based on what puzzle they're on and watch out for any shenanigans so ours is a prison themed escape at one point there are three cells that need to be opened in order one of them has a live actor in it that messes with you the entire time even after you rescue him anyway each cell is pretty much the same with the toilet shelf and a few other items one guy was pretty drunk and repeatedly put bones and other crap in his pants to get a laugh out of his teammates but they stopped paying attention to him while trying to actually make their escape he must have gotten bored being so drunk and not caring about the escape room he leaves the main group and heads back to he prison cell area i'm watching on the cameras and see he's not with the rest of the group so i start clicking around trying to find him sure enough he's in a jail cell hovering over a toilet taking a pee there's no plumbing they're definitely just props we shut their game down on the spot his group was not happy with him at all after they left i had the pleasure of soaking up his pee with the mop little by little and it was after that night we added the anyone visibly intoxicated will not be allowed to participate rule at least he went in a toilet started working in an escape room around three months ago this is not really a weird thing but more a cute one one day a dude called and told us he was proposing to his girlfriend and that they were both huge fans of escape rooms so my boss and came up with a cool idea how we could change our escape room to make it more romantic and that at the end of the escape they wouldn't find the key of the room but the ring and a bottle of champagne we also told the dude the solutions of some of the puzzles to make sure they would actually come to the end of the room it was the cutest thing i have ever seen the way these two work together in the room and how excited the dude was when they found the ring and the champagne at the end and he asked to marry her they were both in tears so were my boss and i she said yes after that they stayed with us for a bit before heading their own way it is still one of my favorite evenings and one of the reasons i love my newfound job so much you have to agree to marry me so we can escape the room actual escape room employee here the weirdest thing i saw was a young couple in our hardest room they asked for our hardest who when they couldn't solve our puzzles took off their shoes and just sat down and talked when i would send them hints to get them to start playing again the lady would call me a commie it was weird for example the lady would pick up a red clue paper that goes with a pyramid puzzle they would stare at it then put it to the side i type in a hint the red papers go with the pyramid she looks up the screen we were getting to that commie im not a communist and the room isn't communist themed in the slightest im not a communist and the room isn't communist themed coma red clue paper whatever you say commie i saw a man eat a magnet there are rubber snakes in the room and one has a magnet in its mouth he thought he should do as the snake did he offered it back but we told him once he found it he could keep it i currently work at an escape room we had a youth group come in and play some rooms in halfway and we smell this horrendous smell our control room is right next to the room when we got them out we noticed they built a little tent and inside was two giant mounds of crap kid took a crap in the room and we approached the adults and said oh that wasn't us we thought you put that in there so they denied it even though the kid had brown stains down the back of his pants our owners called they confessed and we deep cleaned the room while they got charged for it great times comma oh that wasn't us we thought you put that in there nothing adds to the ambience of an escape room like actual human fesses obligatory not an employee but i'm sure my friend group looked pretty weird to them we did the one where you get stuck in handcuffs and have to unlock them but we couldn't get the key to work on one of my friends we assumed that there was another key to get the last person for some reason and left her attached to the wall for like 20 minutes turns out her cuffs were broken and we had to pause the game so the employees could come get her out with bolt cutters they were shocked that we'd just left her there but we thought it was part of it sorry brenda we can't all escape one time i did an escape room with some people from work the final clue was what time does bible study meet and a four digit combo lock after we couldn't find any useful clues i just went over to the lock and put in six hundred zero six one five etc it opened at zero seven zero zero apparently we were supposed to look out the window to where the church across the street had their schedule printed on a big sign according to the attendant nobody had ever tried that before i don't work out escape the room i work at breakout games but it's the same deal i had a couple in a handcuffed blindfolded room start feeling each other up until i said over the microphone just a reminder that i can see you guys from four cameras in the room if you need any hints let me know additional story we had a customer try to put his finger in an outlet because he thought a key was in it that isn't his fault because there are rooms that do this but i was scared after death dee i don't understand why any escape room would put anything important in a place that normally is a hazard i also had a woman look at books in a different one of our rooms and stop her entire team in order to say guys all of these books have words and numbers it totally means something it didn't just a book don't work at one but we did a zombie escape room for my bachelor's party although i'm lame and it was just my family plus my soon-to-be wife when we got there there were two other kids there early teenagers from the looks of them a little gawky and weird but they seemed excited to be there and hey maybe they'd help out but then we get to the part where we have to give our names and they have apparently named themselves military ranks also they're saluting okay that's weird the person who brought them both was their aunt from the sounds of it and she just sat there on her phone in the waiting room looking p off that this was even happening over the course of the introductions it became increasingly apparent that these kids were severely on the spectrum and probably should not have been doing something like this without a full group of friends and family well they got a family at least my family anyways we get in there and it's pretty neat there's a zombie actor on a chain who will try and crawl at people and tag them every now and again a buzzer sounds and she goes back into a room and the chain extends another few feet and she comes back so you have to have zombie distractors by singing and puzzle solvers apparently though our two sidekicks are absolutely terrified of zombies they shrieked and pushed themselves up against the farthest wall possible one of them pooped himself at some point they spent the rest of the match cowering behind my mother who had become their unofficial mom in the end i just ended up p off at their aunt who just sat on her phone in the waiting room the entire time letting them be terrified i can't imagine what would have happened if our family hadn't been there i like to imagine the proctor would have called it off and refunded them once he saw how utterly incapacitated they were but they said they had a good time and other than a few offs of pool here and there we did too at the risk of going to heck the whole thing was really funny and i can't believe these series of events are happening kind of way but still furious about their aunt but it's a story to share at least it was a terrific evening full of laughter and my father's all-time best dad moment when the zombie had my mom cornered and he stepped forwards thrusting his finger at the actress and yelled hey zombie get away from my wife somehow it worked hey zombie get away from my wife initiate dad powers actually work in an escape room but this one happened to my colleague we have this false door who leads to a wall which is to make people believe that's the way that came in they are blindfolded at first one guy was so happy that he found the last key in a record time that when he opened the door he slammed his head so hard that the group in the next room got scared i worked in an escape room for two years i've seen it all besides the typical p vomit and proposals i've seen some weird crap i've seen two different couples literally break up in one of my escape rooms i've seen a full-grown man push over his nephew to open the final the door he thought he was going to break the room record he was 15 minutes off one of our rooms has a hidden ring box in it which has caused many many heart attacks couple attempted to have sex in a corner they thought i couldn't see on the camera two chinese parents brought their three children to our escape room and yelled at them for an hour because the kids weren't smart enough to break the record the parents didn't help at all they stood in the corner and literally yelled at all three children baby shower in our escape room same guy brought multiple tinder dates to our escape room and did the same room every time so he knew all the answers he always paid and he never tried to break the record so i'll let it slide the girls were always so impressed with him teenagers climbed though the ceiling tiles group get so drunk in the room that half of them passed out and had to kick them out mum drops her kids off like it's a daycare and expects me to keep them busy for two and a half hours during a one-hour escape room at 10 pm the best group i've ever seen inside my room was a family of stoners mom dad son sons gf and daughter all wreaked off weed coming into the building they had 90 percent of the room solved in about 15 minutes and i was freaking out even called my boss and i remember saying i have five stoners about to break the record by 20 minutes but then all of the sudden all five got burned out they sat in a circle and talked to each other for about 45 minutes in the middle of the room they took one hour and 15 minutes to finish i feel like i could write a book about my experience working at an escape room it was the most fun i've ever had at a job but at the same time i was so stressed out every time i was there 10 stroke 10 would work there again comma same guy brought multiple tinder dates to our escape room and did the same room every time so he knew all the answers he always paid and he never tried to break the record so i'll let it slide the girls were always so impressed with him sounds like something dennis from always sunny would do if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 28min 10sec (1690 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 01 2021