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(#14) A Real Rosemary's Baby
From Redditor /u/WitlessWit:
[A] couple wanted us to help them announce their pregnancy to friends by putting up a "We're Pregnant!" poster in one of the rooms (we had multiple rooms per escape zone). It'd be cute if the LED screen with a hand-drawn baby carriage wasn't in a Satanic-themed escape room. It was a hit though so... *shrugs*
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(#4) It's A Rule- and Judgment-Free Zone
From Redditor /u/theleviwasbr1:
One time I had a group of kind of redneck people come in and they all smelled funny. We assumed it was some weird pot and just got them in the room.
One of the weirder gentlemen went outside in the middle of the game and came back in and released a large cloud of smoke into the room. After they failed to escape, we took their picture and the same guy screams "All right guys, let's go smoke some more m*th!"
We still don't have rules against this.
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(#3) Putting It Down On Paper
From a former Redditor:
At my Escape Room it's a fairly common occurrence for first generation kids to bring their parents (from various countries - Vietnam, Bangladesh, Italy, Spain, we have many many people in this city) with them to the room, even though they don't speak English. I always feel bad for this reason, because a lot of the puzzles directly depend on English wordplay and stuff like that. But they seem to have fun just being with their kids, so we all have fun together.
One time a family came in that seemed to fit this profile. I'm not sure which country of origin they had, but they seemed Asian American to me. But I am an uneducated buffoon, so I couldn't tell you what language the parents spoke. They spoke very sparingly in their original language, and the children spoke in accented English. They went through the room, the children solving most of the puzzles, and the father following them around silently with a notepad and pen, nodding and writing things as they found clues.
They got out, I took their picture, and they left, and everyone seemed to have had a good time. When we clean up the room, we have to rip several of the pages off from the notepad so people can't see the clues or even the indents of the clues people had written down from previous games. I was looking forward to seeing what language the father had been writing in the whole time.
I reset the room, then get to the notepad, only to find the first page in perfect English: "What if we can't get out? Do we die in here?
I burst out laughing, realizing this man was hilarious and I wanted to chase him down and take his family to lunch, then I flipped to the next page: "Day 56 our rations are running low. We fear for our lives. We are thinking of cannibalism."
It was my best experience working there and I'll never forget it as long as I live.
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(#5) Ultimate Family Secret
From Redditor /u/nadroj37:
If a group doesn't show up 10 minutes before their start time, we call to ask if they're making their way or not.
Well this guy put his home phone number and when we called, his wife answered, but she had no idea what we were talking about. We asked for her name and she wasn't on any booking information, so we assumed it was a wrong number.
Well the husband shows up with A DIFFERENT FAMILY. She seemed to be his girlfriend by the way they flirted in the room, and she also had kids.
Then, when they escaped, he refused to have his picture taken. We called that event "the night of Affair Guy."
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(#2) Prepping For The Proposal
From Redditor /u/simonjester523:
So we do proposals. Ring in the final puzzle box, proposal signs, whole package deal, people love it. Dude calls up to set up a proposal, I ask what room he wants, etcetera. So then I tell him the total price to book out the entire room for the proposal.
He says he just wants to buy the two tickets for him and his girlfriend. I tell him we can't have strangers playing a game [where] their experience is impacted/altered by the fact that there's a proposal going on. Proposal happens in an Escape Room, there's no longer a game, it becomes about the proposal. I know this because I've seen it happen a hundred times.
Anyway, dude refuses to buy out all of the tickets. Says he wants strangers to be there, he's not going to buy the other four tickets. I hand the phone to my manager, they hash out details together.
Over the next three weeks leading up to the proposal, this guy calls every. Single. F*cking. Day. There's nothing else to figure out, we've got it all set up, but this guy is constantly badgering us.
The big day rolls around, he arrives early so he can hide out, and this dude is a kid. Like, pimple-faced, voice-cracking, hair-growing-in-weird-places kind of kid. Everybody in the control room is talking about him, because he's been a thorn in our collective sides for weeks, and we're speculating about telling him marriage at his age is a horrible idea, but whatever it's too late.
So he hides, the girl and her friends show up, they get started and we stash the dude in the second hidden room that they'll eventually end up in. Everybody crowds around the monitor to watch and this guy pulls out a bouquet of flowers and unfurls a sign that says "NAME REDACTED, will you go with me to PROM?"
And the entire staff loses their collective sh*t. Weeks of constant pestering, endless phone calls, and the most stressful proposal deal we've ever put together. For a f*cking PROMposal.
She said no.
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(#7) It's Like A Couples Retreat (From Reality)
From Redditor /u/GloriousTuna:
One couple couldn't agree on how to solve the puzzles and broke up inside the room.
Another couple had the guy surprise the girl with a proposal.
Another couple got a horror-themed escape room and just sat on the floor and cuddled. They didn't look scared. They didn't bother to solve anything either. They just cuddled with all the creepy props and sound effects surrounding them. I guess they couldn't find a creepy motel to cuddle in... ?
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