What's The Most Absurd Thing You've Seen In An Escape Room? (r/AskReddit Top Posts | Reddit Stories)

escape room workers of Reddit what's the most absurd thing players have done mate worked at an escape room and he told me that some guys tried to smash a hole in the wall to get out because it was an Alcatraz themed room escape room enthusiast here we spend far more time than I care to admit trying to figure out what the hell the numbers written in sharpie on the underside of the rug in the middle of the room mint turns out there were an inventory number from the thrift store the designer bought the thing from and nobody else had ever noticed them before we still won but that wasted a lot of our time first thing I had to learn working at an escape room everything yes everything in the room was going to be dismantled hold on or mess with in some way have a screwdriver in the room maybe there's a clue in the light switch cover backlight must have to take it completely apart TV for clues must have to unplug change inputs and anything not nailed down is bound to be broken in the Netherlands there is this prison escape room where everyone is a prisoner and you have to escape prison it is done in an actual ancient prison there are about 300 participants and 85 actors mostly prison guards and some prisoners they have over 15 story lines which you can follow and there are other inmates actors which will lead those storylines and send you one quests coming back to the question at the beginning they warned everyone that no physical contact is allowed because during the first time people would actually threat each other to get money and guards have been attacked also they had to warn people that he weren't supposed to try climbing the 50 feet high prison wall had a group coming I noticed they had been drinking a little but seemed mostly fine so I'll let him into the room and stop the clock they were just wandering around at the half an hour mark they were laying on the floor and rolling around they didn't do any harm to the room I don't remember if they even solved one puzzle when I let them out after an hour they claimed it was fun but they didn't really do anything and did they remember it the next day idk I interviewed for a job as an escape room they told me that one of their standard instructions you must tell every group is to not stick things and electrical outlets because too many people did it what's ducked up is I went to an escape room in LA where one of the puzzles was literally to stick a fork in a socket everyone told me I was insane when I suggested it but two of the prongs were folded back and though his fake suit around the fake outlet I did it and boom gave us the next clue I thought it was super stupid though why risk people learning that behavior and trying it elsewhere one guy pissed on the wall thinking the plaster was snow not sure if this counts I did an escape room with a group of friends at the end you found a flash drive which was supposed to be plugged into a computer we opened the document and there were instructions to print we got print and the printer gave us an out of in carer we assumed this was part of the game and started looking for a magenta cartridge in an employee slipped in the room replaced the cartridge and told us to hit print again apparently it was not part of the game they just ran out of ink a group came in that disassembled some of the furniture a bed and a desk ripped some of the wallpaper off the walls and called the heads off some stuffed animals I don't work at one but my coworker went to one last year and his story was hilarious he's a really serious guy from Boston got talked into going to one with his wife and a few old friends that had come down for vacation he said as soon as they walked and he saw a broom that looked completely out of place so he grabbed it he thought they'd need it at some point they made it out of the first room they go to the second room and he still got the broom he swears it was just too out of place to not be part of the puzzle at some point they make it through the second room the third room they get stuck there reading the clues over and over and he gets fixated on the broom while everyone else is searching the room he's looking at over up and down checking the handle fill markings mind you he has terrible near side vision and checking the bristles time's running out and he's arguing with his wife at this points that the broom has final clue time runs up they walk out and the crew is just dying laughing at him someone left the broom by mistake nothing more nothing less he carried that damn broom through three rooms he got a good laugh about it later but he was embarrassed at the time it was a great story he told the next morning at work I went to one where there were three identical rooms which teams competed in at the same time if you finished you then got to watch and listen to the other teams our team did pretty well and we got to watch the other two teams try to complete it anyway there was this one lock which was a number combination and you solved it by finding some sheet music in a book with five notes on it which corresponded to numbers the piece was entitled the key or something similar so you knew you needed it for the lock anyway this other team instead of converting two numbers and putting in the combination chanted this five note una the lock when it did not work they tried again then again then someone else tried this went on for ten minutes and got louder and louder eventually the gamemaster stepped in and told them it was not going to work apparently they were the only team ever to do that at an escape room near me they had a group of lads on a stag do these guys got very drunken during the escape room thought they could escape via the sewers the managed to rip out the manhole cover which was bolted down into concrete this cover is now permanently broken as it's too expensive to fix they said advised us to not escape via the sewers one of them believed the clue was inside them one time a group was trying to figure out the code to a locked compartment so this huge guy in the group decided this was a waste of time and tried to rip off the compartment door with his bare hands he was almost successful but we stopped him before he could do further damage to the door he didn't understand what was wrong another one happened where a group were handcuffed and they couldn't find the key the gamemaster was trying to give them clues to find the key but they still couldn't find it so one group member thought it would be best to use his leg there was a table in the room with some items on it he proceeded to knock over the items with one kick that group didn't win a kid I knew from school his family owns an escape room business the most things that happen is people trying to take things when it's clearly nailed down or nailed to the wall and he said that a little kid pissed in a bottle not a worker but was with a group of people and one of them became so overwhelmed that almost immediately after walking him they spun around and walked right back out again obligatory not a worker just done a lot of escape rooms and chatted with the staff these are the dumbest people I've been told about one one of the rooms is based on Jumanji and has a waterfall with real water in it enough people have tried to drink the water that they had to tell people not to in their opening spiel to one of the rooms has a bunch of museum style display cases with glass covering the top with different puzzles inside olive has sand in it in small holes in the top someone tried to tip the display case over and get the sand out so they could relieve the hidden message when the game master told him to stop doing that she stopped momentarily and then tried again two minutes later the game master told her if she did it again she'd be kicked out and the woman said just making sure you're paying attention three people constantly try to pull up floorboards or tear down wallpaper in the horror themed room even after they're told there's nothing hidden there and warned not to do it or they'll get charged for the damage not terribly ridiculous but me and the husband loved them and wanted to share our love of them with our family and we got out of the escaped Roomba super amazing nuclear explosion room in Chattanooga Tennessee the room operator was cracking up laughing I guess at one point in order to get keys or clues my over-enthusiastic husband had picked up my eight-year-old nephew by the ankles upside down and was shoving him in barrels I had no idea he was doing this but the operator was dying not an escape room worker but second time I went to one the owner told me that once a group decided to smash all the locks because they found the hammer on which a clue is written they had to replace all locks and it is now a toy hammer I'd like to say those people were morons but when we found it the same idea was discussed in our OOP there was an escape room by me that had a terrorist themed room you get kidnapped and locked in a room with a bomb on the door to up the realism your host was dressed to fit the role of kidnapper and would come over the radio for hints in persona eventually the cops would start coming over the radio to guide you out of the room anyway someone walking by the escape room saw people getting kidnapped and called the actual police the police came by and the escape room workers explained but the actual police wanted to confirm with the people in the room they knocked on the door and said Salt Lake City police open up and the group responded we can't because there's a bomb strapped to the door luckily it ended well with everyone laughing afterwards news summary my buddy guessed her locks combo which gave us the final clue but we had not found the other ones we ending up solving the room backwards when the room administrator came in she had nothing else to say but what the duck did you guys do my dad owns an escape room in a small town in Norway and the weirdest thing someone has done is probably trying to punch the camera the guy was like 150 centimetres tall and couldn't reach it after trying three times to punch it he gave up hey one I can answer Qaeda I was the dude in the room it was my first ten year old brothers birthday party and children are damned if it was themed around a nuclear power station that was gonna blow up the town and essentially what happened was we had an hour to complete three rooms we took 45 minutes to get through the first because kids kept throwing stuff around one guy got freaked out thinking it was real and pressed a button to end the room thankfully it didn't work or something into my dad shouted at him so he took a tantrum and dakine locked himself in a drawer then because the kids can't organize it we had to hunt for the most stressful three minutes of my life for the key and then we got through and it was sort of okay from there cause a lot of kids up and left the room never again never ever again oh my god my time has come people do damage in escape rooms constantly but that's the whole point and it's usually in good fun the best part of my old escape room job was that it was literally right next door to a brothel people would frequently come to our door not realizing that they were one door over from where they wanted to be and asked hey how much me in my customer service voice well it depends on how many people you bring it's $40 each if you're a group of two and goes down to $32 each if you're a group of eight usually we recommend groups of four to six people that seems to be the sweet spot there looks of horror will make me laugh forever there was a player and I was in a large cage through the bars I had to open a heavy lock the cage was dimly lit with LED bars on the floor I got the lock open but due to it being heavy and me having to handle it through the bars I dropped it on the LED bar at first I thought the like turning off was part of the room turns out I broke the LED bar hold the air vent covers off the walls floor and to add in an official disclaimer in the rules spiel I did before they went in the room no clues in the air vents customers were stupid a lot but it was a pretty sweet gig overall I was the player here this was a horror themed escape house with people in costumes screaming at you from time to time with chainsaws and it we were in a room with an open jail cage and we knew the next clue was in that cage but it's pretty obvious that cage was designed to scare the it out of whoever was inside I Walston the cage door slammed shut behind me I took the note and slipped myself out between the bars he waited for several minutes until I slipped back into the cage so the game could progress later on the workers told us they were really surprised when I had slipped out of their trap and were trying to figure out what to do next attended a soar series themed escape room with my so and some randoms since the room required 4-6 we get locked in to start chained to fixtures like the darkroom scene from the movie lights are off as soon as the thing starts one of the Rhondda says I have a gun in case we need to shoot someone I thought he was joking we all did eventually the lights turn on and he pulls out a real gun and sits it in the sink and says I'm leaving the gun in the sink in case something happens to me it's for everyone I'll weigh in with my mildly amusing escape room anecdote not that absurd more anticlimactic this was actually a break-in format where you were supposed to recover some locked up MacGuffin we were really close and the next step evidently was to unlock a door we solved the puzzle that we figured would allow us to do this but then when we tried the door it wouldn't open so for the remaining 15 minutes or so we scramble frantically looking for more clues to figure out how to open this damn door but failed when we asked about it afterwards the guy was confused because the last puzzle we solved was the one that should have opened the door after some back-and-forth it turns out the door just has a bit of a funny handle not part of the puzzle in any way just a door that works different from what you're used to that's all that stood between us and sweet victory once did an escape room with work one in Birmingham UK Sherlock Holmes themed room I walk in last spot a flat cap on the door and as I have an innate need to wear any hat I find I stuck it on my head 25 minutes later we still haven't cracked the first clue which requires us to find a key you'll know where this is going we asked for help the detective likes his hat lo and behold the first clue has been on my head for almost half of the allotted time there's been a few the idiots initially tried cutting through their chains they finally worked it out and one of them sword through their leg and shot the other with a revolver we'd left and there I did an escape room with my family and the workers have to tell you not to lick the lightbulb this is because some guy thought if he licked the lightbulb the answer would be revealed on the light bulb the only answer he found was light bulbs a hot and can burn you I work at an escape room and too many customers come to play and then put the torches in their mouths disgusting we've had a couple get in the room and start to get frisky instead of playing the game had one who was super drunken just started to piss in the corner of one room another lady who had been drinking who decided to stay in the room and puke everywhere and then put props over the top of piles of puke instead of leaving the room to go to the toilet and many others not an escape room worker not absurd but funny there was at a highest themed escape room over Christmas which featured a bit where you have two men overpassed lasers and gated ireland if you trip the laser the display case would close and you needed to go back to the start of the room to reset everything after we finished the room we were told about a group of four elderly women who just walked through the lasers and had one of the groups stay at the beginning resetting the trip absolute geniuses I can just imagine it the cackling as they break the system some of them tried to escape not a worker but the local escape room in my town has an absurd thing the players do to get clues if we're stunts we have to do the in-car dance motions if we need help as players we walk into a pirate-themed escape room there is treasure on the floor a cannon or parrot scattered maps and a piano my friend is like oh cool I can play some backing music proceeds to play Pirates of the Caribbean theme and clunk the door unlocks and the game is over the whole point was to solve puzzles to collect pieces to the music sheet of the theme best 30 seconds and 20 or a ever spent I have a fun one the escape room I used to work in heading outdoors riddle hunt alongside the normal escape room set up the boss never cared to explain to me how the outdoors and work so I always pick shifts only when no one had ordered the outdoors thing once however unannounced this drunk bachelorette party showed up claiming that they ordered the outdoors hunt there was some bug in the ordering software and while I was explaining myself they demanded a striptease I did not do it obviously regardless they did the room instead and pretty well actually and then they gave me a fat tip Cheers [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Mon Aug 10 2020