![]() It was thrilling to step into a room and have no idea what was going to happen next, with nothing but your wits and experience to guide you - plus, up to three clues, if players wish, from Dahl. The Advocate team entered the escape room with no instructions. “You need a mix of solvers and seekers solvers to solve the problems and seekers to find them.” “The larger groups are usually the ones that do best,” Dahl says. So far, of the nearly 120 groups who have played the “Missing Professor,” only 14 percent have escaped. It’s best to make a game reservation in advance. It costs $25 per player and the game is open Wednesday through Sunday. Members of the Advocate staff: myself, art and production manager Jennifer Levesque, and staff writer Peter Vancini, attempted to escape Puzzled’s room last week. It feels like you’re a character in a mystery novel, or what I imagine being in a video game would feel like - Portal, to be exact. Playing an escape room invokes creativity and make believe. Once those are completed the players are free to go - maybe. ![]() Then two to 10 players enter a room tricked out with all kinds of hidden clues, riddles, puzzles, and logic problems to solve. Just about every escape room begins with a story setting up the mystery players must solve. ![]() “I was traveling far and wide to do them, and I thought this is something the Valley doesn’t have and I think people would really like it,” Dahl says.Įscape rooms share some common characteristics, but each one is different. Toronto is the international capital of escape rooms, says Dahl, who fell in love with escape rooms after a couple of visiting friends took him on a trip to Boston to play a round. Though the nearest escape room to Puzzled is in Worcester, this type of live adventure game is gaining popularity in large cities across the globe. Players are invited to touch and move items around. It’s the first escape room in the Valley and an exciting new addition to the regular night-out line up of movies, eats, and shows - most of which require sitting down for the entire experience.Įscape rooms are physical. Inside, somewhere, were clues and puzzles to crack that, if solved in time, would lead to our escape and the whereabouts of the “Missing Professor.”Ī few months ago, filmmakers Tom Dahl, his sister Lise Lawrence, and husband and wife Dahl Erik Rossavik and Florence Gaven Rossavik used their scriptwriting and set design skills to open Puzzled Escape Games in the Eastworks Building on Pleasant Street in Easthampton. The large, dark green room with high ceilings had a wall-sized book shelf, desk, mirror, and painting, as well as a few end tables and chairs. Inside Puzzled Escape Games’ first escape room, the Advocate staff stood frozen like the Scooby-Doo gang before a haunted house - silent, wide-eyed, and a little hungry (it was dinner time). The timer started when the door closed, and for a moment it was very confusing. ![]()
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