Practice. Escape rooms are a learnable skill. Some of it’s learning the recurring patterns of puzzle types… but a lot of it is learning to communicate effectively with your team. Searching helps a lot too in many games.

Thanks for letting us know Brian. We’ve added Immersion to our list of places to visit next time we’re in the region.

… and yeah… we’ve played a silly number of games. It just keeps going up. We’d stop if we weren’t enjoying them.

Just my recommendation, if you ever have a chance, there is a group of escape rooms (multiple rooms tell 1 story which was unique) at Immersion in Charlottesville, VA. But they have a 2 person room (A Nightly Reminder) that we both agree is by far the best we’ve ever done. The puzzles are intriguing and challenging, and as the pieces of the multiple room puzzle come together – it forms a really cool story. The room is small, so you really need to work together as a team – a lot of rooms have it where 1 person can solve the puzzles and the others are waiting or in the way – this one is truly interactive through multiple people at the same time.

We haven’t played those two. For all of the amazing games we’ve seen, there are countless that we still haven’t gotten to.

One of the things we hope to improve soon is the search feature on our site to make it easier to answer questions like these.