Hey guys!
So I know I'm late to the trend as usual.
I finally did an escape room for the first time.
And because it was my first time,
you can probably already guess,
but I was just kind of.... awesome?
I don't know like really, really good?
Hands down, one of the best person I have ever seen,
play this kind of game?
I'm sorry, I don't want to sound like I'm bragging,
but I mean, I do have a 100% success rate.
And I've only done one room so far, so like
Wait until I get some real experience under my belt.
That number's only gonna go up!
I mean you can even ask the people that I went with,
who've actually done escape rooms in the past,
like, just how naturally good I am
and how great I was for like my first time!
*Greg disagrees*
Well, I mean you didn't ask them.
So.. But even then, you know-
you s-
they were like-
Okay fine, I suck! Okay, I suck!
I SUCK!
*intense suck through the mouth*
I'm not good at escape rooms, okay?
And yes, it might seem like
I'm making a big deal out of nothing
well it is to me.
Because I always thought I would be good
at escape rooms. You know, I love puzzles
and riddles, and I'm usually good at that stuff.
I thought I'd be a natural fit.
But I guess I just, I don't know, I'm just not good at them.
Guess I just, um..
I'm not as smart as I thought I was.
You know?
Hey!
This is the part where you guys are supposed to be like
"Hey, come on, it wasn't that bad, it was your first one."
You know?
Right?
*No.*
Look, some people's brains just work in different ways.
It doesn't mean I'm stupid, okay?
I'm not dumb!
Look, just because I'm a college dropout and yes,
I cheated a lot in high school and middle school
to get better grades so I didn't really retain anything
and,
yeah, okay,
sure, they tested me as a child for ADHD
because I couldn't perform so-called "basic tasks"
like, raising my hand when I'm supposed to
or not paying attention,
or not punching a girl in the stomach for cutting
in front of me in the lunch line
even though she saw me there first!
Doesn't mean that I'm dumb, okay?
I just,
believe that
I was there first, Hannah! (comment jeff if u see this easter egg)
And, Hannah, if you ever end up seeing
this video for whatever reason,
Um, I am very, very, sorry for that.
Kindergarten me was just... a jerk.
Who was..
first.
So..
Anyway!
Back to the topic!
One of the worst feelings in the world is
finding out, that, you know, something you always
thought you were good at
and maybe, you took some pride in it,
you're not only not good, you're also
the exact opposite.
You're bad.
BAAAAAAad!
And the only feeling worse than that
is when everyone else around you
who thought the same thing of you,
finds that out as well.
People always used to ask me to go to escape rooms.
They would say things like:
"Ryan! You should come with us, dude!
You'd have fun!"
"Yeah, you'd be really good at it!"
"I think it'd be really easy for you too."
"Yeah, the way you think outside the box,
you'd be perfect for it, come on! Let's go!"
Paco: "Yeah, what they said!"
Well, if you guys say so!
I mean, I guess I could give it a shot-
Yeah, that's kinda why they're not the, uh,
happiest campers right now..
So..
boop :3
*Greg is not amused*
It's not like I wasn't trying,
I tried really hard!
Just, maybe, a little too much,
to be honest..
I mean yes, sometimes, thinking outside the box
is great for problem solving.
But I tend to naturally already think outside the box
whether I want to or not,
See, if you've been watching this channel long enough
you probably already know why
I would be so bad at these things.
To make it easier for those of you that don't,
this is kind of what it was like for me.
And this is not a reenactment of what happened,
this is just the kind of things that were going on in
my mind, while the actual escape room was happening.
It's probably easier to just watch it.
Take a look!
Arden: Okay, so one last time,
as we mentioned earlier in the prep room,
we will be watching you,
so just to reiterate, no phones,
and remember: the key to escaping this room
is in this box.
And in order to open it,
you need to figure out the clues leading to it.
Do not try to force this, or anything else
in the room open. If it's not opening, it's not broken,
you just haven't figured it out yet.
We've had people break things
in the past out of frustration,
and, unfortunately, we've had to ask them to leave.
That's not fun for anyone, right?
Especially us, because then we have to fix it!
That sucks.
Alright! Well if there's no other questions,
I'll be-
Ryan: How interesting.
Arden: Um, what was that?
Ryan: You said that the key to escaping
this room that we're locked in
is in that box.
Yet, you know that we know
that we have to think outside the box.
To see into it.
Huh.
*Everyone: ???*
Okay! Um.. well if there's no other questions for me
the timer begins as soon as this door closes.
Good luck and have fun.
Derrick: Alright where do we start?
Will: I don't know, I mean she just said this is our way out.
Paco: Well... look at the box for writing or something.
Sean: There's only a lock on here!
Paco: Uh... that means we have to
find a key of some sort.
Greg: Yeah, yeah yeah, okay.
I'll check the books.
Sean: I got the maps!
Paco: I'll get the desk then.
Will: Alright, there's definitely gotta be
something with these chests.
Derrick: How about these cups? PO?
What does that mean?
Will: Huh... I don't know.
Paco: How is this broken?
Ryan! Uh.. why don't you look at the ins... Ryan! Ryan!
Ryan!
RYAN!
What are you doing?
Ryan: I think I.... I think I got it!
Paco: Got what?
Ryan: I think I figured it out!
Will: What, like... the next clue?
Ryan: No- how we get out of this room!
Paco: Ryan, you're wasting our time. That's impossible.
Greg: Yeah, we just started.
Ryan: Guys, look. Remember when she came in here
to explain the rules?
Paco: Yeah, what about it?
Ryan: Well, when she came in wearing all white I started
looking around the room for all these other white things
and all of a sudden, I just realized
all the walls around us are white.
A-And they're surrounding us like we're in some
kind of institution, li- like we're in some kind of box!
And then right as I was making that realization,
she goes, and picks up ANOTHER box, a-and tries
to open it in front of us!
Paco: What is your point?
Ryan: Guys, call me crazy, call it a hunch, call me maybe.
But I really think that, if we wanna get out of this box,
We have to figure out what's in THAT box!
Will: Are you being serious?
Ryan: Yeah, why?
Paco: She JUST told us that.
Ryan: Oh. Well, um-
Paco: See! I told you we shouldn't have brought him!
He's gonna slow us down!
Ryan: Okay! Okay! She told you guys about the box
but in order to get it open
I noticed there's actually a-
Paco: A keyhole! Yes! We know!
That's the first thing we talked about!
Derrick: That's why we're looking for hints
to find the key.
Ryan: Actually that's not what I was gonna say but-
if you wanna find the key, I could actually show you guys where-
Paco: No! We need HELP! Actual help!
Go.. Go look at that deer or whatever that is!
Ryan: Oh you mean the sheep head?
Paco: That's not a sheep!
Ryan: Lamb, sheep, same thing.
Will: I dunno, maybe bison?
Derrick: Triceratops?
Sean: That's not a dinosaur.
Greg: Could be.
Sean: It has two horns.
Greg: There's horny dinosaurs.
Sean: What?
Greg: What?
Paco: WHAT ARE YOU-
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS EVEN TALK-
Look, we've wasted so much time that we haven't
found a single clue yet.
Greg: Yeah, I got nothing.
Sean: Same on the maps,
there's just random circles everywhere.
Derrick: Yeah, same here.
Will: Yeah, I got some different colored water bottles
but I don't really know what they are.
Ryan: Look, guys, all I'm saying is.
You guys don't know where to even start. I could
just get things going and just let you guys know where-
Paco: Okay, fine, where do we go, huh?
Where do we start?
Ryan: Well, I mean-
I would start with the hollowed-out book.
Paco: What?
Ryan: The hollowed out book next to Greg over there.
Y'know, third shelf from the top on the right.
Should have a big letter "A" on it.
Sean: What the..
*suspenseful music*
Yeah, it should be like,
some kinda wristwatch or something.
*all gasp*
Paco: How did you know that?
Ryan: Well, I mean I could tell you guys, but
like you said, I don't wanna waste everybody's time, so-
Will: Okay, we were wrong. We- we're sorry.
Derrick: Yeah, just tell us what's next, c'mon.
Paco: Yeah.
Ryan: Okay, well that hollowed-out book had a watch
which shouldn't be working, because when a watch
doesn't work, you tend to look where?
At a clock, which is also not working.
So it might appear useless until you see the bottom
of the clock, which says made in China.
Probably wouldn't think too much into that, until you
realize that this whole room is covered in maps
and one of those maps happen to be China.
Now the map of China has a bunch of different cities
circled, but since they provided us with some kinda
line graph of some sort with the
x-axis being the minutes and the y-axis being the hours,
we can assume they want us to use the times
on the broken clock and the broken watch
and basically use them as coordinates to find our
two cities that are most important.
Will: The clock says 3:45.
Greg: Mine says uhh... 6:40.
Ryan: It should come out to Shanghai and Beijing.
Then we take the broken ruler,
which is also made in China,
and measure the distance between the two
and it should come out to about 2 inches.
It doesn't have to be an exact measurement, you just
have to know that they're saying two inches.
Will: They're "saying" two inches?
Ryan: Well, technically no, not two inches,
two in-chest.
Will: [gasping] The chest!
Derrick: Oh, yeah!
Ryan: See those weird colored bottles you found earlier?
They're all different colors, but only two
of them in the chest are actually the same color.
Making the "two in-chest" the only couple.
Just like the cup-holes that
Derrick was figuring out earlier.
And since we now know which cup to pour
the liquid into, we can follow the tube all the way
to our last puzzle - the instruments.
And obviously, we all know we only need piano,
so we forget about the other one. Then we get the
sheet music to-
Paco: Woah, woah, wait what? How is it obvious?
How do we KNOW it's the piano?
Ryan: The cups, they're labeled "PO," remember? "PO"?
Paco: What?
Ryan: PO! P and O. Piano.
Ryan: Didn't think I had to explain that one...
Paco: Okay, fine, but it still doesn't explain
why you think it's the last puzzle!
Ryan: I mean, we knew from the very beginning
that we're looking for keys, right?
What has more keys than a piano?
Sean: Hey guys, there's a note in here.
It says, "To find the key, you must play the keys
using all the keys that lead you here in the correct order."
Derrick: Using all the keys that lead you here?
Greg: Correct order?
Derrick: What does that mean?
Paco: The clues... the things that lead us here!
The book was the first one!
Derrick: Oh, that's right!
Derrick: It's empty.
Paco: On the spine! There's a big "A"!
That's how you knew where to start!
Ryan: Nothing stands out more than a big "A".
Will: Play an A key!
Sean: What else do we have?
Greg: Oh, um... there's a G in here!
Sean: Okay, G.
Will: Oh! F!
Sean: F, okay.
Greg: Another G!
Paco: A!
Will: Another A!
Derrick: One more A!
Sean: Is... that it? No-Nothing happened.
Will: That was the last clue. It led us to the piano, right?
Ryan: Yeah, but maybe try it again, but altogether.
Paco: Alright so the order was A, G, F, G, A, A, A.
[plays the tune quickly together]
Sean: Doesn't it sound like Mary Had a Little Lam-
[sheep baaing sound effect]
[everyone saying ooohhh]
Paco: I don't know how you did it, but, I'm impressed.
Ryan: Well, there's only one last thing to do.
Nah, man. You do it. You deserve it.
Okay.
NO RYAN
[wood breaking]
Paco: What the hell?!
Will: Why would you do that? We have the key!
Derrick: We're probably gonna get disqualified now!
Ryan: You guys still don't get it, huh.
Paco: What? Ryan: Look.
There was never a key in the box to begin with.
[footsteps approaching]
Arden: Congratulations! You guys set a new record!
[guys making comments in disbelief]
Derrick: I thought we were about to get disqualified!
Ryan: See, from the very beginning she mentioned
that the key to our escape was in the box.
She didn't say there was actually a key in the box.
The box WAS the key! Which is why when
I asked her about anything outside the box,
she gave me that weird look, remember?
Arden: People don't usually pick up on that so fast.
Ryan: Well I did know something was up but
I wasn't like absolutely positive that I had to break it yet,
because it was two of the rules, like don't break things
and don't use phones. Then I started noticing all the
random phones in the room, and I realized
maybe we're supposed to break the rules.
But even then I wasn't absolutely sure,
until I saw the broken ruler.
Arden: Exactlly.
Ryan: Broken rule-r. [chuckles] Clever.
Will: Breaking rules!
Sean: How did we miss that?
Paco: No! This is the stupidest escape room ever!
Ryan: Hey, it's okay, man. Some people just don't know
how to think outside the box. Some people just can't
break the rules. They just do what they're told.
And you know what we call those people?
Sheep.
[sheep baaing sound effect]
[sitcom laughter]
[synthpop music plays]
[cheering from live studio audience]
Yeah, you already know it didn't happen that way.
Like I said, this is kinda the fantasy version that was
actually going on in my head during the escape room.
I was trying to make all these connections,
and make things work. I was overthinking everything.
This was just to show you the kind of things that
were going on in my head, while the other guys
were doing the real work.
If you wanna see how the escape room actually was
in real life, I uploaded a vlog on HigaTV.
It's just like a real, tiny bit more accurate and realistic than
the one that you just saw. Although I will say just
thinking about that escape room and writing that skit
you know, the one you just saw, I actually think
I developed a technique that will help you, or even
experienced escapers how to get out of any escape
room pretty much with the same success rate as me,
a hundred percent.
And I'm not just talking in a fantasy, I'm talking reality.
Because in reality, that other version would look
a little bit more like this.
Nah man, you do it. You deserve it.
Okay.
[wood breaking]
Paco: What the hell?!
Will: Why would you do that? We have the key!
Derrick: We're probably gonna get disqualified now!
Ryan: You guys still don't get it huh?
Paco: What?
Ryan: Why don't you guys take a closer look?
There was never any key in the box to begin wi-
Huh... wait what is that?
[door opening]
Are you serious? [Arden stuttering]
Does that mean we win...?
Arden: I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask all of you
to leave, right now.
Ryan: Oh, okay.
Will: Damnit! Greg: What the hell, Ryan?
Paco: See what you did?
Ryan: Yeah, I do. We won. [scoffs]
[Ryan walks into a wall]
This is a bathroom, though.