The Do-It-Yourself Escape Room Book
The Do-It-Yourself Escape Room Book

Author: Paige Ellsworth Lyman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 151075881X

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A practical guide to create your very own escape room! Contains over 300 puzzle ideas! *Purchase includes link and password to download one full step-by-step escape room kit.* Now present in all fifty states, escape rooms offer a fun activity for corporate events, team training, youth groups, and all types of parties. But what if you could develop your very own escape room in the comfort of your own home? In this fun, full-color book, Paige Ellsworth Lyman, founder of TheGameGal.com, offers a practical guide to creating your own do-it-yourself escape room. Divided into two parts, the first half covers what an escape room is, how to develop theme and plot, how to set up a room, how to structure clues, and how to run the event. The second half provides multiple chapters of clues and challenges to use in your escape room, including codes, ciphers, mathematics, puzzles, physical objects, and more. This book is the perfect gift for puzzle enthusiasts looking for new challenges and families that are bored at home!

Planning Your Escape
Planning Your Escape

Author: L.E. Hall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1982140356

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Never get stuck inside an escape room again, with this strategy guidebook to beating your favorite immersive interactive game—from a well-known game designer and puzzle enthusiast Chances are you have visited an escape room, whether for a birthday party, a corporate team-building exercise, or as a weekend excursion with your friends. But what does it take to maximize your chances of solving the puzzles, while ensuring everyone has a good time along the way? Planning Your Escape is the perfect guide to making sure you never get stuck in another escape room again. Game designer extraordinaire Laura Hall has all the best strategies for every room you might encounter, so your team can function like a well-oiled machine. This guide offers: -A history of puzzles and experiential entertainment, from the 4,000-year-old dexterity puzzles of Mohenjo-daro to the spectacle of immersive theater installations like Secret Cinema, Meow Wolf, and Sleep No More; -Different types of escape rooms, and solvable examples of the common puzzles they employ; -Common escape room player personality types, and how best to work with them; and -Advice for constructing your own escape rooms and puzzle hunts Bringing in a cast of experts, Planning Your Escape is the must-have strategy book for any escape room enthusiast, puzzle fan, and aspiring experience designer. Get ready to wow your friends and impress your co-workers with your new skills, and never enter a room you can’t get out of again!

Escape Room Puzzles
Escape Room Puzzles

Author: James Hamer-Morton

Publisher: Portable Press

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781645171614

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Solve these fiendishly fun escape room puzzles without leaving your house! Escape rooms have become a popular group activity in cities across the world, with more than 8,000 venues in existence today. In Escape Room Puzzles, you can play the escape room games from the comfort of your chair, honing your mental skills in the process. Each of the puzzles in this book includes three different levels of difficulty, allowing first-timers and veterans alike to partake in the fun. Use your logical reasoning, mathematics, and observation skills to solve the puzzles and break out of the rooms!

How to Start and Operate an Escape Room Business
How to Start and Operate an Escape Room Business

Author: Aleksei Kniazev

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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In this book, I will review the entire process of managing quests starting with finding the perfect location, marketing and finally selling your rooms. Using the successful example of our Conundroom quest rooms, I will show you how to create, manage, and advertise quests. I'll also discuss what you will need to pay attention to and what should never be your focus. I'll even include the mistakes we made, and the lessons learned from them.

Unlocking the Potential of Puzzle-based Learning
Unlocking the Potential of Puzzle-based Learning

Author: Scott Nicholson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 152975531X

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Discover the educational power of puzzle-based learning. Understand the principles of effective game design, the power of well-crafted narratives and how different game mechanics can support varied learning objectives. Applying escape room concepts to the classroom, this book offers practical advice on how to create immersive, collaborative learning experiences for your students without the need for expensive resources and tools. Packed with examples, including a full sample puzzle game for you to use with your students, this book is a primer for classroom teachers on designing robust learning activities using problem-solving principles.

Escape the Game
Escape the Game

Author: Adam Clare

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781536826852

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Escape rooms are a new, fun and immersive way for people to play. They provide a venue for players to work together to overcome an exciting challenge -- a challenge you will make. Escape rooms are sometimes known as escape games, exit games, puzzle rooms, adventure rooms, riddle rooms, and other names. --Page 11.

Escape Rooms and Other Immersive Experiences in the Library
Escape Rooms and Other Immersive Experiences in the Library

Author: Ellyssa Kroski

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0838917674

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By one count, there are more than 7,200 escape room environments in 1,445 cities in 105 countries. So why not in libraries? Sharpening participants’ problem solving and collaboration skills by mashing up real-time adventure, immersive theater, gaming, and old-fashioned entertainment, they’re a natural for libraries. And, as Kroski demonstrates in this fun guide, they’re feasible for a range of audiences and library budgets. Whether you’re already an escape room aficionado who’s eager to replicate the experience at your own institution, or an intrigued novice looking for ways to enliven your programing, Kroski has got you covered. This book discusses the differences between escape rooms, which are highly structured, and immersive experiences, which are more casual;shows how these unique experiences can be used to teach information literacy skills, add unique youth programming, bring adults into the library, and instruct patrons about library resources in the form of puzzles and challenges;profiles several successful library projects, from large scale programs like New York Public Libraries’ Find the Future: The Game to smaller ones like Search for Alexander Hamilton;offers dozens of programming ideas and examples that can be tailored to fit a variety of libraries and budgets; andprovides information on game kits available for purchase, tips for partnering with local Escape Room businesses, and links to additional resources. With the assistance of Kroski’s guide, libraries everywhere can offer their own take on these exciting forms of entertainment, engagement, and education.

101 Puzzles for Low Cost Escape Rooms
101 Puzzles for Low Cost Escape Rooms

Author: Philip Drake

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-08

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781688584877

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A fantastic resource for anyone who is looking to create low cost escape rooms, be that for a summer camp, after school program, birthday party, recreation center, youth group or simply for a bunch of friends.While you can find puzzle ideas online, this book shares what supplies you'll need, how to set-up each puzzle and what the players need to do to solve them. Puzzles are separated into difficulty levels. Most are on the easy side for younger and inexperienced players, but there are some tougher puzzles for your teen and adult players.You'll be able to use these puzzles with just about any theme for any age. Tweak them to fit your story, your location and your players.

The Cypher Files
The Cypher Files

Author: Dimitris Chassapakis

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0241481759

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THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR WANNABE SPIES: AN INTERACTIVE PUZZLE BOOK FROM THE CREATOR OF THE BESTSELLING CULT PHENOMENON, JOURNAL 29! In this brain-bending interactive game, you'll solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle, you'll need to think outside the book. You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R., the secret international agency working on 'unsolvable' code-based cases. Called upon to investigate cryptic clues discovered in the wake of a series of mysterious disappearances, the clock is ticking to crack the codes before it's too late. To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold and cut pages, explore virtual escape rooms and think laterally to identify the perpetrator and solve the mystery. All you need to play is a pencil, a pair of scissors, an internet connection, and a curious mind.

Escape Room
Escape Room

Author: Christopher Edge

Publisher: Nosy Crow

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1788007956

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The latest mind-blowing novel from award-winning author Christopher Edge, Escape Room is a thrilling adventure that challenges readers to think about what they've done to save the world today. When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game - the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they have been chosen to save the world and they must work together to find the Answer. But as he locks them inside the first room, they quickly realise this is no ordinary game. From a cavernous library of dust to an ancient Mayan tomb, a deserted shopping mall stalked by extinct animals to the command module of a spaceship heading to Mars, the perils of The Escape seem endless. Can Ami and her friends find the Answer before it's too late? With cover illustration by David Dean. "A writer of genuine originality" - Guardian Check out these other brilliant books from Christopher Edge: - The Many Worlds of Albie Bright - The Jamie Drake Equation - The Infinite Lives of Maisy Day - - The Longest Night of Charlie Noon -