Mobile Escape Room

The Brief

Our client invited us to create an engaging and entertaining escape room activity for adults that would form part of a post-seminar drinks reception.

It was desired that the activity should encourage teamwork and enable socializing between colleagues across the different departments, have an element of surprise and fun and be actor facilitated.

What We Did

As the event was to form part of a drink’s reception after a busy day of seminars we didn’t want an activity that would last too long or that would detract from the networking element of the evening. We created four highly themed immersive spaces that became four unique Escape the Room game zones that should be completed in 25 minutes.We split the guests into small groups of 6 – 8 and throughout the drink’s reception invited these groups to meet a mystery host at a particular door and take on the challenge.

Together each team was invited to solve a series of puzzles, find the all-important clues and manipulate mysterious artefacts and technology to make their escape. Effective communication, time management and group dynamics were put to the test.

Room A – The Detective Agency

The setting: A Vintage Private Investigator’s Office Downtown New York 1950

Character Host: PA to Buddy Ms Blousey Lichenstein

Plot: 2nd May 1950, New York. Newspapers have announced the death of one of the greatest Private Investigators that has ever lived… PI Buddy Shadowman was working for the past months on the most important case in his career. He had become obsessed eating, sleeping and breathing the case. At last he was getting closer BUT having been seen leaving The Palace Theatre on Broadway Sunday night a body has been found believed to be his.

Can you step into his shoes and solve the case before the killer strikes again?

Headline: Serial killer on Broadway. 5 Theatres, 5 Murders, 5 Suspects.

Room B – The Laboratory

The setting: Bio Lab 7631

Character Host: Scientist Professor Rufus Skipton

Plot: Lab 7631 is a private lab working in association with the British government. Here top scientists are working on the development of life saving cures in their fight to become the strongest most powerful nation. To find these cures of course there must be disease. Usually kept under lock and key to prevent leakage of classified information and misuse. One of the labs leading scientists has revealed himself as conspirator with a lethal international organisation and has taken what can only be described as liquid destruction.

Can you piece together the clues and find the antidote before it’s too late?

Room C – Ripsworth Manor Hotel

The Setting: A sumptuous Victorian supper in the dining room of Ripsworth Manor.

Characters Host: A paranormal Investigator Gerald Allpington.

Plot: Ripsworth Manor sits on the edge of Exmoor in the beautiful South Devon countryside. Since 1852 what was once a bustling, beautiful family run hotel has stood empty. The property has been sold to developer’s time and time again only to be returned to market following what have been described as unexplained paranormal activities. Terror has struck the Moors as the last group of investigators have gone missing without a trace.

Can you crack the case and discover who or what is at work and return this house of horrors to a place of happy holidays?

Room D – The Shipping Yard

The setting: Metal Shipping Container/Distribution office

Character Host: Undercover Police Officer DCI Alan Morris

Plot: Welcome to the office of international shipping giants Cargo Pacific. Meet DCI Alan Morris who has been leading a crack team and himself working undercover on what has now been named Operation Sandman. The team have been monitoring Cargo Pacific for some time as they believe the company to be involved in one of the biggest international diamond smuggling operations ever seen. Today will see the biggest handover to date worth billions of dollars.

Can you locate the handover point and intercept the rendezvous before it’s too late?

Highlights

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This event was proof that adults love to play as much as kids! From putting on costume pieces to playing detective there was definitely a lot of fun had.

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Guests really got into the spirit of things with different personalities stepping up to take on different roles to collectively solve the crimes.

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We were delighted to see that you could still create an immersive, engaging escape the room activity even with the reduced time of 25 minutes.

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Later in the evening guests were invited to explore the other rooms and immerse themselves in different times and places while trying out elements of the different puzzle threads. The reactions as the characters and rooms were unveiled was a real treat. Case solved; mission complete!