It’s No Mystery Why Escape Rooms Are So Popular WRITTEN BY: Doug Baker, Editor, Cocoa Beach Explorer
You have 60 minutes. You and your team of private investigators must solve a decadesold cold case regarding the location of the millions of dollars stolen in the 1950 Great Brinks Robbery in Boston. Your team has finally located the outdated apartment of the prime suspect, now an old man, but the bigger mystery still remains—where did he hide the money? The back story of Escape Cocoa Beach’s 2325 Tremont Street is based on actual events that took place in January of 1950. Game players find themselves immersed in a story world filled with outdated décor, old furniture and period magazines clearly setting the scene of a suspect holed up for years since his 1950s heist.
Room Adventures at Escape Cocoa Beach
If you are an escape room newbie, you will probably find yourself with no idea where to begin. Just start trying things: open drawers, look for locks, look under/inside items, look for patterns. Know this, the key to successfully escaping any game room is communication. You must communicate with your team. Find a clue or pattern, shout it out! Find something but you’re not quite sure how it plays into the game, shout it out! It’s amazing how each team member, given the same clues, will think and put things together differently. JAIL BREAK
“It’s entertaining to watch how different groups handle the games.” Ryan DeFloria Creative Director at Escape Cocoa Beach
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I promised not to reveal the secrets of the game, after all that would ruin it for everyone else, but I can say there were some very It’s inevitable that at some point in the inventive hiding spots for essential game you will get stumped. The clues and items including an “I key is to never waste too much think I know what I need to time before asking for a hint. The clock do, but I’m not doing it unless All escape room games are is ticking... the gamemaster tells me to” monitored from the outside moment. by a “gamemaster” via a Do you want a hint? live feed allowing them In a world where entertainment to see and hear your game is now dominated by screens, and give clues to help you the concept of a live-action move forward with solving adventure where players must the puzzle at hand. Rely on work together to find clues, solve your gamemaster, and don’t be puzzles and crack codes in order to escape afraid to ask for a clue. This was one of the game before time runs out is exactly the the hardest lessons I had to learn. Wasting 15 kind of interactive fun needed. minutes on one clue is the difference in getting out or getting skunked. How does it work? On a personal note, I’ve now played all A group of players, usually 4-8, are briefed on of Escape Cocoa Beach’s games. I’m not the room’s storyline and rules (like no breaking embarrassed to say I didn’t escape them all (yes, things and don’t take the blank apart) by the I was too proud and waited too long to ask for “gamemaster”. The timer is set, the door shut a clue), but I certainly had fun playing. One (the doors are not actually locked) and then, of my favorite rooms I’ve ever played: 2325 game on. Tremont Street. Give it a try and you’ll see why.
You have been wrongfully accused and arrested by a small-town Sheriff. He has you in a holding cell next to his office. You must find your way to freedom, while retrieving the evidence he holds against you.
BANK HEIST 11 men were convicted of Boston’s Great Brinks Robbery committed in 1950. Millions of dollars were stolen with little recovered. It is up to you to solve the mystery and recover the fortune.
ROCKET SCIENCE You and your family are touring an aerospace facility. You wander off and find yourselves in the office of a scientist who mysteriously vanished in the 1960’s. You have one hour to uncover the secret of his disappearance.
MYSTERY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA In 1947 the body of an aspiring actress is found surgically mutilated near Hollywood, California. With little physical evidence, the case becomes one of Americas most notorious cold cases. Step back in time and rewrite history by helping to solve the crime.
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