The Red Wire

One of the basic rules of an escape room is you have a certain amount of time to solve all the puzzles and escape. Our group of four opened the box containing the last puzzle with 20 minutes left on the clock, but the conceit of the puzzle is you only have 3 minutes to solve it. We asked for a hint but were just told: all the information you need is there. So even though at the end we still had 17 minutes left in our time, we “failed” the game. It’s a shame because the room had some fun and clever gimmicks I’d really enjoyed up until that point, but the ending left a sour taste in our mouths, and all our group talked about on the way home was how cheated we felt.