Escape rooms test the problem-solving, lateral thinking
("thinking outside the box"), and teamwork skills of participants
by providing a variety of puzzles and challenges that unlock access to new
items or areas in the game when solved. Escape room puzzles include word
games, numbers, and "arranging things into patterns"such as
substitution cyphers, riddles, crosswords, Sudoku, word search, and
mathematics; puzzles involving physical objects such as jigsaw puzzles,
matchstick puzzles, and chess; and physical activity such as searching for
a hidden physical object, assembling an object, navigating mazes, or
undoing a rope knot 🕵️♀️
