Sentence examples for escape rooms from inspiring English sources

I'm experimenting with ideas from escape rooms, where students solve puzzles requiring subject knowledge to win the game.

"Some try their hand at life drawing, or escape rooms [a game where participants have to solve puzzles to get out of a locked room] are very popular.

You are not, as a general rule, permitted to bring phones into escape rooms (prepare to be astounded by how badly you miss Google).

She reveals an intriguing love of escape rooms that I never saw coming, and I enjoy attempting to explain the concept of Center Parcs to someone who has never heard of it ("That sounds cool!" "Yeah! Well. Sort of").

While there are plenty of escape rooms where you and your friends can pay to kill a few hours solving puzzles and answering riddles rather than talking to one another about anything meaningful, Escape Doug's Room provides something truly unique.

Another new type of storytelling is found in the current fad of escape rooms, and the Drafthouse converted some of its karaoke rooms into a chamber of satanic horror (Satan and devil-worshipping are recurring themes at the festival, as is cannibalism).

And the cartoonists Emily Flake and Drew Dernavich attempt to escape from an escape room.

It's taken off in the US in the past three years and it's having a moment over here too: according to the Escape Room Directory, there are more than 60 sites around the UK.

The concept, which evolved out of online games and harks back to TV shows such as The Crystal Maze, is believed to have originated in Japan; the earliest known real-life escape room opened in Kyoto in 2007.

Locked Canada A few weeks ago I went to an "escape room" with some other cast members [Harewood is filming Supergirl season 2 in Vancouver] and it was really good fun.

Whereas last year's riddle was a math-heavy logic puzzle, this year's setup is more of an escape room.