You start the game in jail — locked in handcuffs, surrounded by brick walls covered in grime and caged in by black iron bars. The story goes that you were framed and wrongly thrown in jail for a $10 million diamond heist.
Your goal: Escape your cell and prove your innocence within 60 minutes by using clues and solving puzzles spread out in three separate rooms.
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This is the first room of Urban Enigmas’ “Innocence” game. Players start handcuffed in a jail cell and have to break their way out while also using practical evidence and documentation to prove their innocence.
That’s the immersive fun behind escape rooms, which is exactly what Urban Enigmas brings to Athens.
“It’s a lot of fun,” said AJ Kooti, owner of Urban Enigmas. “It’s fun to see how the mind works in different people.”
The key behind escape rooms is the challenge of looking at the environment from a different perspective. As Kooti says, “Things aren’t always how they seem.”
When each game starts, players are left in a seemingly normal room where they have to piece clues together to attain their goal. However, each clue tends to play a mind game on the player.
Sometimes basic objects in a room — a stopped clock or a poster — could be clues to Continue reading “Thinking outside the room: Urban Enigmas brings escape rooms to Athens”
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