In recent years, the escape room concept has been popping up all over the world.
But, what are escape rooms?
It's a fairly simple premise.
Put a handful of people into a themed room and have them solve a puzzle in 60 minutes
or less.
As of right now, their popularity isn't slowing down.
Touting their team building benefits, companies flock to them on business retreats, families
go to them on vacations, and friends do it to shake things up and do something different.
Curious to see which are the best around?
Be warned, by the end of this, you'll likely be thirsty to try them out yourself.
I'm Mike with List25 and Here are 25 Best Escape Rooms You Might Not Get Out Of.
25.
House of Hints Located in San Diego, this escape room boasts
a number of different rooms to try out, including "High School Detention", "The CSI Lab," and
"The Pawn Shop."
All the puzzles are in-house designed and unique.
24.
Locked In: The Birmingham Escape Game Located in Birmingham, Alabama, this escape
room was ranked one of the best by USA Today.
Their hardest room is called "The Classroom," where you wake up in a schoolhouse to find
a riddle on the chalkboard and a message implying nothing is as it seems.
23.
Room Escape Live This escape room located in Los Angeles has
a number of great rooms to break out of.
From a cold war bunker to Tesla's mystery, they have a variety of historical and modern
day rooms and can host up to 42 players at the same time.
22.
Real Escape Game This popular escape room venue out of San
Francisco focuses on popular movies and genres as their theme.
One of their current escape games is based on the Pacific Rim franchise.
21.
Mission: Escape Atlanta This Atlanta escape room venue has two different
rooms called "The Study" and "The Hotel" that can host up to 10 people.
It's received many accolades from the likes of CNN and Business Insider.
20.
Palace Games Also located in San Francisco, this venue
has four different rooms, several which are based on American History.
For instance, the "Roosevelt Escape Room" is all about preparing for World War I.
19.
Trapology Out on the East Coast, this escape room is
considered Boston's most challenging.
With four rooms, "The Drunk Tank" and "Crush Depth" prove to be their most insane.
They became particularly notable for teaming up with Chris Evans to make a pop-up escape
room and surprising the guests.
18.
The Basement This slightly terrifying escape room has several
rooms to try to break out of, but "The Basement" is the most difficult and notable.
With only a 12.5% success rate, you likely will struggle to get out of this room.
17.
Enchambered A venue based out of Sacramento, they offer
three immersive escape rooms to enjoy, or dread, depending on which you choose.
From "Skull Witch" to "Containment Breach," you'll feel like you're fighting for your
life in these challenging rooms.
16.
Austin Panic Room Located in Austin, Texas, this venue's "Oval
Office" is less an escape room and more about saving the country before time runs out.
They do, of course, have several other escape rooms, like "Prison Break," a fully immersive
prison experience and their hardest escape room.
15.
Trapped in a Room with a Zombie This escape room adds an extra layer to its
already difficult setting.
Trapped in a room with zombies chained to the wall, once one breaks free, you have to
decide who of your team will be eaten.
In the meantime, you have to try to solve the puzzles and escape the room before you
all die.
14.
Breakout KC Located in Kansas City, this escape room claims
to have one of the highest rated escape games in the world.
Touting its family-friendly environment and tough challenges, there's something for everyone
at this venue.
One, in particular, is called "The Hero" and tasks you with stopping an evil doctor.
13.
Claustrophobia Escape Room If you're claustrophobic, don't go here.
Built only for two people, this tiny room will be challenging both mentally and physically.
In this one, you only have 30 minutes, and they turn up the heat.
12.
Escape MSP In this escape room, you with a team of 4
to 10 players will try to collect the hidden assets and escape the room before its too
late.
This venue touts several missions, including raiding a museum and discovering the mystery
of an eerie cabin.
11.
Mr. X Escape Room Hailing from Shanghai, China, this escape
room venue is favorably reviewed and takes on video game style design.
Each room has a variety of missions, each more difficult than the last.
Mission 8 is their most difficult.
10.
Cross Roads Escape Games With escape room names like "The Hex Room"
and "The Psych Ward," it's safe to say this venue is all about scares.
The Hex Room is specifically about trying to escape a horror film.
With only a 20% escape rate, it turns out escaping a horror film isn't all that easy.
9.
Breakout Lawrence From a scenario where you have to stop Y2K
to a Civil War reenactment, this venue has some very unique rooms.
Those up for the challenge of the Civil War room should know, there's only a 25% escape
rate.
8.
60 to Escape This venue located out of Gurnee, Illinois,
has a wide variety of escape rooms to choose from, including "Blast from the Past," a game
about finding a missing arcade owner, and "Containment" a game requiring you to stop
whatever lies inside a government facility from getting loose.
7.
5 Wits Located in several states along the East Coast,
this venue touts a heightened escape room experience that acts more like an adventure
video game.
Rather than getting out of one room, you have to move through multiple rooms to escape and
complete the quest.
6.
The Caretaker Coming out of Orlando, Florida, this escape
room is considered one of the hardest and scariest escape rooms in the United States.
Deep within an Oregon forest lies an evil doctor trying to create the next plague.
Your job is to help the Caretaker get out of the woods before it's too late.
5.
Escape Hunt This Parisian venue has a rich 19th-century
theme and who-dun-it flavor, allowing you and your team to pretend you're detectives
trying to solve a crime.
Even more unique, it's a live event with several cameras watching you solve the mystery.
4.
Escape Code Located in Branson, Mo, this venue has many
creative escape rooms.
From trying to escape a stranger's revenge to staying at a creepy cottage, they have
a variety of interesting stories for you to experience.
3.
Escape Room Insomnia DC With a variety of rooms ranging from beginner
level to advanced, this venue has fantasy, science fiction, and historical escape rooms
to whet your appetite.
2.
Omescape Located in several locations across the United
States, this venue has some very surreal and bizarre escape rooms, including "Joker's Asylum"
in San Jose.
It boasts a tremendous difficulty and eerie mystery to solve.
1.
60 Out This escape room venue comes out of Los Angeles
and has 23 different quests to enjoy.
From a "Jumani: Welcome to the Jungle" theme to a horror ghost ship theme, it's likely
you'll find something that interests you.
So, have you ever done an escape room?
How'd you do?
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