Escape Room Blog : escape rooms

A new virtual reality experience called “The Hard Way” is not about experiencing life in prison or in the boxing ring. It's actually a training program developed by KFC. It’s used to train the new KFC cooks in how to make menu items including their famous Fried Chicken, in exactly the way the Colonel would have approved.

With so many people social distancing today, by working at home it can be very difficult to run a workplace team virtually. We find that the lack of face-to-face communication can certainly affect a group's overall performance. That's why it's important to get to know the basics of how to build a strong remote team. A strong foundation starts with the requirements of the group itself.

Over the last couple of years we have seen a huge rise in the number of corporate escape room games being played. More often than not, these can be labelled as “team building exercises.” One thing we noticed after a agame, when the team players are being interviewed, they often mentioned that the escape room scenario allows them to feel vulnerable but without any associated stigma.

If you’ve seen the 2002 David Fincher movie, “Panic Room” then you have a pretty good understanding about the purpose of having a special room that's able to protect you from any outside threats or dangers. These can be in the form of a home invasion, tornado, ballistic missile strike, swarm of killer bees or even an apocalypse. Though the thought of such things might be terrifying, for some who h

So, you've been tasked with hosting a virtual escape room for the purposes of team building. But how do you know what the best type of escape room is for your particular group? There are a huge number of questions you’ll need to ask in order to match your goals with the objectives of the game.

In spite of the health crisis due to Covid-19, life must go on. And that includes the working life. For many people, social distancing will mean having to spend long hours at home. Yet all the regular work activities, be they meetings, training, recruitment and communication, will still be going on as they were before lock-down. And then there's the social context in that employees can't meet and