Escape Room Hints and Tips

We’re going to give you some hints and tips to help you escape the room. However, don’t worry if you can’t get out in time, within those 60 precious minutes, because you can always come back and try again!

Working cohesively with your team helps you to escape quicker – and in one piece!

Working as part of a team is crucial if you want to win. No arguing, and no one person just working in isolation and not consulting with anyone else. No one should be allowed to dominate or even two for that matter, unless two is the only amount of people you have in the room! Let everyone have their say, and by listening you could escape within the 60 minutes. Don’t waste the time you have in there arguing because it’s an ideal opportunity for you to enjoy yourself and have some fun. 

The clues are well hidden everywhere.

They’re probably hidden in places you wouldn’t even imagine, only by keeping your eyes peeled and turning things over, moving items out of the way and picking things up, and lifting things are you going to find them. So, don’t just look, investigate and then find a central place for them.

Why would you need to keep the clues all in one place?

If you keep all the clues together it’s less likely you’ll lose one of them. They all have a part to play and if you lose one you could lose the entire game. By allocating one place for them to stay, once you’ve discovered them all, you can then start to work them out. How do they all connect? What do the clues say and how are they going to help you escape? That’s the fun of the game!

Escape Leicester – where the clues are hidden, and your game plan needs to be first class.

Here at Leicester we pride ourselves on our ability to take care of all our players and provide a reasonably stress-free environment where you can enjoy yourself. We know that escape games are one of the best team games anyone’s come up with for some time and that once you’re here, you’re going to have the best time. So, what are you waiting for, book your room online or over the phone?

Benefits of Team Building Activities

We’re looking at the benefits of team building activities, and how they are one of the best ways of identifying strengths and weaknesses of your team. Communication, planning, listening and problem solving are all skills which require working on from time to time. 

Because the way escape games have been devised, communicating with each other is essential or no one gets out. The emphasis is on team work, so everyone has to speak to each other in helping to find the clues and puzzles and then work them out. If you don’t speak to each other, then you don’t get out within the hour. Of course, listening is a key skill because if you don’t listen, you won’t know how to find the clues and then work them out – as a team. 

How does your team problem solve?

What are their strengths and weaknesses? Perhaps one or two are good at cognitive skills, others good at maths, others good at something else that contributes to solving the clues. By watching how they both work together, and then work on the puzzles, you start to have a firm picture of what you’re dealing with in terms of skills and talents. If you have a project in mind in the foreseeable future, then you may find this the perfect opportunity to find your key players. 

By visiting Escape Leicester, you can engage your team in an escape room game for an hour, giving them the perfect getaway from the inside of the office, while giving you the perfect opportunity to identify your next project team. 

To summarise, these are some of the benefits of team building activities with escape rooms in mind -

• Improved communication 

• A lasting, more positive feel good factor afterwards

• A great ice breaker and a fantastic way for new members to bond

• Good for team building and goal setting

• A way for the team leader and the team members themselves to recognise strengths and weaknesses 

• Increased productivity at work.

There are different team building activities out there which we believe are nowhere near as good as what we offer here at escape games Leicester. You can try army military style circuit training, It’s a Knockout type games, and a number of games you could easily put together in a free room back at base. However, if you want to get your team out of the office and into an exciting environment where they can put themselves to the test with this fantastic game, then escape rooms are the only answer. 

So, if you want to reap the rewards of team building activities at your organisation then we strongly recommend our Escape games Leicester, why not book a room today and the sooner you do, the sooner you and your team can take part.