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if you like solving puzzles uncovering
complex riddles and discovering hidden
clues than an escape room is definitely
for you
yeah joining us now to tell us about
escape key in Salem are the owners will
and Emily beam out thank you so much Oh
make you so much for having as it's a
pleasure to be here oh we love escape
rooms so do we might not know what an
escape room is tell us what is it so it
is a real-life experience a real an
actual scenario that you get to step
into and you get to solve tangible
puzzles and clues some of them are
riddles that you have to mentally solve
there's also a lot of tactile things and
there that you get to move around and
solve and you have an hour to escape the
room yeah not really locked in the room
the state of Virginia considers that
kidnapping if we lock you in a room so
you're not really yeah so the way we get
around that is we have two doors in all
of our rooms so you go through one door
which is unlocked and stays unlocked all
the time you can exit if you need to and
then the second door is locked so you
still get that fun and that adrenaline
rush if we unlock the door we escaped
yes yeah and I think we have a couple of
pictures of behind the scenes because
you're kind of watching and modern or ER
and you're there and available to help
along the way we are there's cameras and
microphones in the rooms so we offer
unlimited hints because we want this to
be a fun experience so anytime anyone
gets stuck we have a mom software
program in the back we can type up a
clue we send it and it shows up on a
monitor in the room okay and then what
are the rooms and escape key like well
each one has a different kind of theme a
different kind of adventure being
offered the one we recommend to a lot of
first-timers is called the magicians
vanishing act the story idea is that the
mysterious magic shop has gone dark
blown out the power grid and you're
supposed to go in and figure out what
happened it's a little bit easier a
little bit streamlined makes it very
accessible for people who have never
done one before but then you have some
for people who are better at them as
well yes one of our more popular ones is
called the hunters cabin your team is a
team of monster hunters and you've come
to this cabin in the woods for your
final test
Wow to learn how to become supernatural
monster hunt okay can we talk about this
yes this is escape escape room in a box
yes so we designed this to just kind of
be able to give people an idea of what
the puzzles were like that they might
encounter and we're gonna treat
been today yes so the Escape key museum
reported that their prized diamond was
stolen Brittany this diamond is worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars no
alarms were set off and nothing was seen
on surveillance cameras the diamond must
be found by midnight so it can be
reappraised for insurance purposes
or the policy will lapse we need special
help on this case which is why we have
called you in here is everything we have
from the crime scene okay so here's our
backlight right yes and we're gonna
shine that on here and we're gonna in
the white spot white boxes are we doing
this right you are okay mostly so we see
some oh that for nine so tonight yeah
okay nine three okay
93 can't see that for nine three four
okay right three three four are there
for dinner right oh okay starting there
for three nine four three nine okay on
it so then we figure out which one it
goes to yep so you know there's no that
it's a three-digit combination okay
this weird three-digit boxes in here oh
I don't think we're gonna do all right
what is this all right oh there we just
use had to slide this I got one I got
one
it has an envelope it says Escape key
and it's an envelope where does the
blacklight do we need the blacklight all
of our puzzles are one and done
so once you've used something you don't
have to go back and use it again it
hopes you knew how far in the room that
you've gotten and what you still have
tough to do okay this is so much fun so
if somebody wants to come get a little
taste of the room I don't know what I'm
they can do that will you while we're
still working on this will you give
people the information yes so our
website is W
eww skp I am calm you can go on there to
book a room our email address is on
there and you can also call us it's five
four zero four zero four three three
five eight okay all right left okay