Unlike other escape room experiences, at The Great Houdini Escape Room, as time went on, it was entirely possible to play to one’s content and never have any downtime or feel like you were intruding on a teammate. Each character’s individual puzzle contributed to a larger meta-puzzle, which fit into the overall solution for the room, but our team was directed to start with the larger scale puzzles per the game master’s advice. We were soon confronted with eight independent character puzzles (with each person corresponding to a specific color) as well as a few larger, linear puzzles. So whether we believed the rumors or not, were my friends and I up to the task of completing The Great Houdini Escape Room and escaping in 80 minutes, the very same challenge he tasked his famous friends with? My team of seven began our experience with a short history lesson from our game master around these prominent figures of the time, all of them experts in their own fields.

Rumor has it that Harry Houdini built the world’s first escape room a hundred years ago as a challenge to 8 brilliant innovators - Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, John Philip Sousa, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Helen Keller, and Luther Burbank - to see if they could escape in time.*Īnd it’s no coincidence that all eight of these figures were involved in the 1915 World’s Fair, which was held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, of course, the Palace of Fine Arts is also the venue where the escape room company Palace Games runs some of the most exceptional rooms around. Palace Games’ popular escape room combining real-life history and challenging gameplay

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