Make Your Own Escape Room

Visit a crafts or thrift store to find decorations and costumes that fit your theme.

Make your own escape room.

Once you have one it ll be a lot easier to come up with fun immersive and creative puzzles so your family or roommates will be more easily sucked into the game. But designing your own escape room is incredibly fun and when your crew yells a ha. Although there are many escape rooms available there is a benefit to making your own. For example make a key to open that door.

To get started we recommend that you make an escape room that takes only 30 minutes to complete instead of one hour. Choose props to make your escape room more authentic optional. Imagine being locked in a room with a small group of people and a single envelope taped to the door. Or maybe a riddle so players go deeper into the game.

Another idea would be to use a lock with a key and have one of your clues give a hint about where the key is hidden. Here s how to make your own escape room challenge for kids. But if there s a will there s a way. Usually this would be too well hidden for a make your own escape room but this clue makes it solvable.

Your first clue is taped to the door. Use candles to add to a historical or spooky theme. First i bought a lock that needs 4 numerals to unlock it and it can be reset to a new combination over and over again. The best way to get started with setting up an escape room is by creating your own storyline.

Escape rooms are so much fun. As they solve a puzzle you ll feel the emotional fist bump in the air to end all others. To make the escape don t make it too obvious for the players to see the escape door. The only way out of the room is to stop that clock.

Here s another example of a before after photo. For a safer option use electric or battery operated candles instead of real candles. If you re short on time we ve got some ready to play escape room kits as well as a classroom kit for teachers. They re super easy to customize and you can be playing in.

For all escape rooms you should have some way of locking boxes or rooms puzzles and a theme. A photo of the room before the thief broke into the room showing a vase that was in a different place. Then hide an object inside that vase. A screen on the wall shows a countdown clock with a 20 minute timer.

Or better a puzzle.