“ There’s lots of places in the world you can gamify.”

Emma Rochon and Melissa Eapen were young game masters working at a local escape room company over 12 years ago. They loved this “new” genre of entertainment, and asked the owners how they could get more involved in growing the business or designing new rooms. The owners replied with “There’s no growth in [escape rooms]. Also though, if you try to make your own company, I’ll sue you”.

These famous last words spurred Improbable Escapes co-founders Emma Rochon and Melissa Eapen to quit and start their own company. While looking for locations, they mapped out all the known escape rooms in Canada at the time, and settled on the charming city of Kingston. They chose it primarily for its qualities as an escape room wasteland, because it didn’t have any notable existing escape rooms.

Today, they’ve certainly built out enough games to put Kingston, Ontario, Canada on the map of any escape room enthusiast. They have built and designed over forty different games and experiences, including escape rooms, outdoor escape rooms, large event “podium games,” and even a board game café. They also started a sister company called Visual Menace Creative that builds sets, props, and immersive activations for brands, film, television and music videos.

Emma Rochon joins us on REPOD to share her escape room journey in the industry. I was simply mind-blown by these two young women who built an escape room empire out of nothing but sheer determination and passion. I love stories where someone is told “no” and they proceed to prove nay-sayers wrong in the most epic way possible.

If you enjoyed this episode and you want to hear more from Emma, she will be speaking at this year’s Reality Escape Convention about deconstructing escape rooms, and how to literally think outside the box when it comes to designing interactive puzzle games.

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Topics Discussed in this Episode

• 00:00 Sponsor Break: RECON – The Reality Escape Convention
• 04:31 Origin Story and Lawsuits
• 07:53 Exploring Improbable Escapes’ Games
• 09:36 Unique Mechanics
• 12:18 Motherhood and Leadership
• 14:57 The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein
• 19:23 Down the Rabbit Hole
• 21:24 Sponsor Break: Buzzshot, Escape Room Marketing Software
• 24:04 Outdoor Escape Rooms
• 26:43 Kingston Tourism and Expansion
• 32:28 Wonderland Board Game Cafe
• 34:48 Community and Sales Trends
• 38:19 Sponsor Break: Room Escape Artist Patreon – Bonus Episodes, Spoilers Club & More
• 40:45 Visual Menace Creative
• 46:20 Sponsor Break: PG’s Playhouse – Puzzles, Pals, and Trivia
• 47:51 Podium Games Explained
• 52:21 Designing Museum Installations
• 54:21 What Comes Next
• 59:23 Bonus Story: Unbirthday Party

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Improbable Escapes Website
• Visual Menace Website
• Chris Ramsay Solving an Improbable Escapes Puzzle
• Room Escape Artist Reviews
  • The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein
  • Neverland: Heist on the High Seas
  • Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission
  • The TriWizard Trials
  • Legend of the Mayan Temple
  • The Undersea Overthrow [Hivemind Review – Online Implementation]
  • Neverland: Heist on the High Seas [Hivemind Review- Online Implementation]
  • The Hot Chocolate Incident [Hivemind Review – Online Implementation]
  • Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission [Hivemind Review – Online Implementation]

About Emma Rochon

Instagram: @improbableescapeshq @improbableescapeswonderland @visualmenacecreative

Emma Rochon is co-owner of Improbable Escapes in Kingston, Ontario, one of Canada’s longest-running escape game companies. Having spent over a decade creating immersive entertainment, her lead design credits extend across 40+ projects ranging from traditional escape rooms, outdoor adventures, museum installations, remote games and more.

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Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date Played: June 7, 2025

Team Size: 2-14; we recommend 3-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price: $33.95 CAD per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration:  One person will need to crawl. There are stairs.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Three things stood out to me about Legend of the Mayan Temple.

1. It’s in remarkable shape for its age. It’s an older game that doesn’t feel older. Improbable Escapes really manages upkeep.
2. It doesn’t play like its age. It felt far more fresh than I ever would have expected for a game that’s pushing a decade old.
3. There’s a killer mechanical interaction in Legend of the Mayan Temple. I’m surprised that it is as reliable as it is.

There is a joy in playing a great escape room company’s earlier material. I get to see where they came from and what kinds of design decisions they were exploring earlier in their careers. After playing Legend of the Mayan Temple, I left with a clarity on Improbable Escapes’ approach to design. Their focus on building beautiful environments and packing the space with the most fun possible shined through, even from the beginning.

Beware that Legend of the Mayan Temple has some trickier puzzles, but they are all solvable. This game isn’t my first recommendation for Improbable Escapes, but it also gives me the confidence to say that anything in their game catalogue is worth checking out.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Indiana Jones fans
• Any experience level

Why play?

• Challenging, classic escape room puzzles
• A well-kept up older game
• Some nifty analogue interaction design

Story

Our team of adventuring archeologists was on a quest for the lost cup of the king, an artifact that had been missing for more than a thousand years.

Setting

When I played Legend of the Mayan Temple, it was 8 years old. While this set wasn’t up to the same standards as Improbable Escapes’ newer games, it was both remarkably elegant for an older game, and so well maintained. Most escape room companies do not have one game that is built to this standard.

Gameplay

Improbable Escapes’ Legend of the Mayan Temple was a classic escape room with a higher level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around searching, observing, making connections, and puzzling.

Analysis

 Legend of the Mayan Temple looked fantastic, especially for an 8 year old game. It was well-maintained.

 The puzzles were good, classic escape room puzzles that generally solved cleanly.

 One wooden prop fit too snuggly (possibly due to humidity?) This made a perfectly solvable puzzle feel far more challenging than warranted.

 Improbable Escapes made interesting use of a crawlspace.

 Legend of the Mayan Temple had a strong transition between act 1 and act 2.

 The second act didn’t do a great job of conveying what it wanted us to accomplish. A bit more clue structure would have gone a long way.

/ While still fair, one late-game puzzle slid the difficulty level up higher than was necessary.

 The final puzzle was pretty damn cool. I remain surprised that it works so reliably.

Tips For Visiting

• This game is located at Improbable Escapes HQ (303 Bagot Street, Suite 16B)
• There are paid parking lots and street parking in the area.

Book your hour with Improbable Escapes’ Legend of the Mayan Temple, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Improbable Escapes comped our tickets for this game.

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Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date Played: June 7, 2025

Team Size: 3-14; we recommend 3-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price: $33.95 CAD per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: The game is located downstairs in the building.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

I’m always happy to descend into a magic school filled with stone walls, dark wood, and magic wands. The TriWizard Trials hit all the right nostalgia buttons for me.

The TriWizard Trials made the magic feel magical. When we performed spells correctly or tapped our wands the right way, the set and props reacted. The puzzles were fun to solve.

There were opportunities to improve the feedback from puzzles, especially in the middle act of the game. We wasted a lot of time not realizing we’d already beasted a challenge.

However, The TriWizard Trials built up to a finale in a beautiful set that required well-timed teamwork and reacted well to our magic, ending on a high note.

Improbable Escapes has two locations in Kingston, Ontario. While the Wonderland (West End) location houses their newer games, the HQ location has five more games and is conveniently located in the adorable, walkable downtown area of Kingston. We wish we’d had more time to spend exploring this part of town and playing more of the escape rooms at this location. And while we didn’t play them all, I am confident that The TriWizard Trials is a great choice, especially for anyone excited about magic school vibes.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Harry Potter fans
• Any experience level

Why play?

• To feel a bit like you’re at Hogwarts
• Fun, magical puzzles

Story

We couldn’t believe that Wizzle Wozzle’s Academy of Wizardry had accepted our application. The only thing standing between us and the most prestigious magic school in the world was their entrance exam: The TriWizard Trials.

Setting

We descended down stairs to The TriWizard Trials. The set felt like the wizard school you’d expect from pop-culture depictions. It had stone walls adorned with crests and large framed portraits. We were immediately intrigued by magical artifacts.

Gameplay

Improbable Escapes’ The TriWizard Trials was a standard escape room with a moderate level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around observing and solving puzzles, including a fair bit of communicating and coordinating with teammates.

Analysis

 The gamemaster who greeted us and led us to the escape game was in character the whole time. It felt like they belonged at this wizard school. They perfectly set the tone for the experience.

 I was a Harry Potter fan back in my teenage years. Stepping into the set gave me a ping of nostalgia for that world that I spent so much time in through the books. The TriWizard Trials had the stone walls, dark wood, looming portraits, and magical props that I expected. It felt right.

 My favorite early interactions made use of the magical props. We loved finding a concealed magical staff, and how it was revealed.

 We weren’t always clear what a solved puzzle revealed or unlocked. This was especially confusing when we did multiple actions simultaneously. If something happened, we had to backtrack to make sure we understood cause and effect, and didn’t lose the thread of play.

 The TriWizard Trials didn’t always give adequate confirmation when a puzzle had been solved. We would have appreciated a more obvious solve state, or puzzles that “turned off” once completed. We spent a lot of effort solving one puzzle multiple times because we hadn’t realized that we completed it correctly on our first attempt.

 The finale set glowed beautifully. It was distinct from the previous sets, but felt very much of the world. It also played really well. First we bested a more challenging, team based puzzle. Then we took on an easier, but still active and whole-team inclusive boss battle.

 Any time I play a magic-school themed escape room, I want a wand, and I want it to matter. The TriWizard Trials delivered on this with thematic, functional wands that once introduced, continued to be important to interacting with the world.

Tips For Visiting

• This game is located at Improbable Escapes HQ (303 Bagot Street, Suite 16B)
• There are paid parking lots and street parking in the area.

Book your hour with Improbable Escapes’ The TriWizard Trials, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Improbable Escapes comped our tickets for this game.

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Fairy boat

Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date Played: June 7, 2025

Team Size: 2-14; we recommend 3-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price: $33.95 CAD per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: There was a staircase and some more challenging terrain that at least one person must traverse. There was sand on the floor in one area.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Neverland: Heist on the High Seas was an ocean-themed puzzle adventure. While it wasn’t a massive game, it felt bigger than it was because Improbable Escapes made abundant use of verticality. The set wasn’t huge, but it was detailed. There was always something to look at and enjoy.

Another element that made this game feel big was its extensive use of teamwork to solve puzzles; Neverland really wanted us to collaborate. We often found ourselves spread across the set, working together to solve the puzzles.

My knock against Neverland was that I wanted something more from the ending. Everything in this game felt big, and the ending didn’t quite measure up. That said, the journey to the ending was fantastic. The gameplay flowed well and the puzzles were fun to solve.

The most interesting game at Improbable Escapes’ Wonderland location was The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. However, if you’ve made your way to Kingston and you’re already in the building (which also includes an adorable game store and cafe!), Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission and Neverland: Heist on the High Seas should be on your itinerary as well.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Scenery snobs
• Peter Pan fans
• Any experience level

Why play?

• A beautiful, adventurous set
• Strong, classic escape room puzzle play

Story

Captured by Captain Hook and locked away in the brig of his ship, we had to break out, commandeer the ship in the night, and navigate our way to Neverland… or walk the plank.

Setting

Our adventure began within the brig of a pirate ship, and both the brig and the ship looked great. The spaces were loaded with details, and spanned two floors. Every direction had something worth looking at.

Gameplay

Improbable Escapes’ Neverland: Heist on the High Seas was a standard escape room with a moderate level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around observing, making connections, and puzzling.

Analysis

/ Improbable Escapes started all their experiences outside of the room with a beautiful, projection-based storytelling technique. From there, a gamemaster led us to each experience, and set the scene for us. Across our experiences at Improbable Escapes, the gamemaster’s intro varied in terms of how in-character it was. We felt the Neverland: Heist on the High Seas, especially, could have been elevated by a more dramatic character-led opener.

 We were immediately taken with the set, which had verticality that added a lot of excitement to the experience. The attention to detail further augmented it. We could also explore different nooks of the set, some of which had distinctive vibes, but were clearly part of the same world.

/ We loved Tinkerbell, who made a dramatic entrance early in the game, paying homage to the source material and adding magic to the game world. That said, with some tweaks to lighting and sound, she could be even more impactful.

 Most of the puzzles worked best with multiple teammates collaborating and sharing information. This made the puzzles feel even bigger, as solving them traversed a lot of the set. As an added bonus, collaboration made the solves feel satisfying to the team as whole.

 We had a ball with large set pieces that gave fun audio feedback.

 One challenge didn’t provide enough feedback, and we ended up redoing a weighty puzzle that was already solved correctly.

 The most challenging puzzles had considerate affordances. For example, one puzzle saved what we had completed correctly when we were forced to repeat it.

 / As a puzzle-driven experience, Neverland: Heist on the High Seas flowed well and was fun to solve. That said, the gamespace opened up early, and from that point on, it was a relatively flat experience of puzzle solves, lacking the especially high highs that come from new discovery, reveals, narrative turns, or a grand finale.

Tips For Visiting

• This game is located at Improbable Escapes Wonderland (500 Gardiners Road, Unit 2A).
• There are paid parking lots and street parking in the area.

Book your hour with Improbable Escapes’ Neverland: Heist on the High Seas, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Improbable Escapes comped our tickets for this game.

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One apple to rule them all.

Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date Played: June 7, 2025

Team Size: 2-14; we recommend 3-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price: $33.95 CAD per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: There are some steps within the game, but not all players need participate in that part.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Way back during COVID lockdown, we played a ton of escape rooms virtually… and every once in a while we saw a game that made me think, “damn… I really want to see that one in real life.” Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission had left an indelible mark on my memory back then, and I am thrilled to report that it was just as beautiful and fun as I had hoped it would be in real life.

Improbable Escapes built an elegant and beautiful set, and took us on a journey that felt like a blend of Snow White meets Lord of the Rings.

Above all else, Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission was fun. We were always moving, constantly doing, and the game was regularly asking us to do different things. When I left, I didn’t feel emotionally transformed by Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission… I just felt like I had had a wonderful time, and that was more than enough. I loved this game.

I recognize that Kingston, Ontario, is out of the way for most people. Just know that this lovely town is there for you to visit, and within it is a truly fun escape room company that I will eagerly revisit.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Scenery snobs
• Lord of the Rings fans
• Any experience level

Why play?

• A beautiful, adventurous set
• Strong, classic escape room puzzle play
• Playful interaction design

Story

A year ago we Seven Dwarves had helped Snow White defeat the evil Queen. Now her minions were seeking to use her poison apple to reignite her reign. We had to dig deep to bury their hopes of power.

Setting

Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission was beautifully constructed. The dwarf’s cottage was a joy to look at and explore. Subsequent spaces were also intriguing and elegant.

Gameplay

Improbable Escapes’ Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission was a standard escape room with a moderate level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around observing, making connections, light physical challenges, and puzzling.

Analysis

 The set looked great. It felt like a cross between a fairy tale and The Lord of the Rings. It was a fun world to explore, and it had been well maintained.

 We loved the introduction to this game. The animation was excellent.

 The gameplay was well signposted. We could quickly determine which props and cluing went together. Our mental energy was spent in all the right places, meaning the puzzles had satisfying payoffs.

 Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission had the perfect difficulty curve: the puzzles got increasingly challenging as the game progressed, but then it culminated an a high-energy, low-complexity boss battle.

 There was a veneer of story. It appeared at the beginning and came back at the end… but in the middle, Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission presented standard, thematic escape room gameplay. There was narrative progression, but this didn’t come through in the puzzles themselves.

 / Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission presented us with a choice, and we wished we’d had more clarity on the consequences of our actions.

 There was an opportunity to enhance the audio throughout the game. The sound puzzle was so quiet that we didn’t realize it was a sound puzzle. We would have liked a more dynamic soundscape for the experience.

 We picked up momentum as we progressed through the sets. We especially liked the puzzles in the third act, which looked great and solved satisfyingly, making use of larger props and set pieces. We also enjoyed the end-game sequence, which was so different from the challenges that had come before it.

Tips For Visiting

• This game is located at Improbable Escapes Wonderland (500 Gardiners Road, Unit 2A).
• There are paid parking lots and street parking in the area.

Book your hour with Improbable Escapes’ Seven Dwarfs: Mining Mission, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Improbable Escapes comped our tickets for this game.

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“If you don’t know who the monster in your family is, it’s probably you.”

Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date Played: June 7, 2025

Team Size: 3-8; we recommend 3-5

Duration: 75 minutes

Price: $36.95 CAD per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: We didn’t notice any specific accessibility concerns.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

“In my years of playing escape rooms, I’ve never experienced a game that built up as much momentum as The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. Improbable Escapes set out to have players solve one puzzle per minute, and while I don’t know exactly how many I solved, the progression felt rapid and exciting throughout the game.”

REA Reaction

This was something new. I had never seen a game quite like The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. The designers behind Improbable Escapes told me that the core goal of the game was to have players solving one puzzle per minute. While I cannot claim to have counted, I believe that they more or less did what they set out to do.

Set within a rundown gothic mansion, we whipped through puzzles at an alarming rate, pausing only to get a bit of backstory from voiceover and animation. I found the cadence of the game mesmerizing. It was a constant stream of identifying what to do, and rapid accomplishment.

The irony of The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein is that the puzzles that I have the most critique of were the ones that demanded that we slow down a bit. When speed is the point, anything felt like we were doing it at normal speed felt slightly off.

Overall, I loved The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. It had a magnificent set, loads of content, and some fantastic interaction design. I didn’t have a way of imagining what an escape room would feel like if it was all gas and no brakes… and now I do. And I enjoyed it so much. This is Improbable Escapes’ latest game and it really does feel like the pinnacle of what they have been building towards: beautiful games filled with fun things to do inside of them.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Scenery snobs
• Best for players with at least some experience
• Players who don’t need to be a part of every puzzle

Why play?

• So many fun, puzzles (probably more puzzles per minute than we’ve ever seen)
• A beautiful set
• Strong interaction design

Story

Long thought abandoned, strange noises and lights have been coming from the decaying mansion of Franklin N Stein. While the villagers were sharpening their pitchforks and lighting their torches, we set off to see if we could unravel the truth hidden within the walls of that old home.

Setting

The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein had a beautifully rundown set, evoking the abandoned mansion that we were exploring. The set was filled with stations that each had their own path of puzzles. Some of these stations were more straightforward, while others had more complex interactions.

Gameplay

Improbable Escapes’ The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein was an energetic escape room with a high volume of easy and moderate difficulty puzzles.

Core gameplay revolved around observing, making connections, and puzzling.

Analysis

It wasn’t immediately apparent how fast-paced the gameplay would be, but this escape room did a good job of immediately teaching us how it wanted to be played. For the volume of content, it was well-organized. It was abundantly clear what information went with which props.

 We were continuously moving through The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. It was a non-stop, high energy experience.

 In act one, each puzzle station centered on one character. The video interludes gave us a moment to pause and ground each character. A segment at the conclusion of act one (that we were initially dubious of, I’ll admit), further reinforced the characters and the purpose of our actions.

 In the first room, many of the puzzles could be solved alone, and it would be possible for one teammate to steamroll the rest of the team. The puzzles relied on different skill sets, however, so a complete takeover would probably be unlikely, but it’s still possible. That risk is somewhat mitigated by the interludes that helped keep everyone following the progress of the room, whether or not they’d solved any given puzzle.

 The transition sequence was rough around the edges. To start, minor light leakage undermined it, and a heavy door slowed momentum. Then the space felt underutilized. It was somewhere between a scene and a passthrough, and we were unsure which it wanted to be.

 There was opportunity for a more dynamic soundscape and enhanced audio quality.

 In the second act, the puzzles were more complex, but we were ready to dive into them. Each puzzle station was now an intriguing mechanism that we’d have to figure out how to use, and then how to master. Furthermore, teamwork was now essential. The difficulty curve worked well.

The mechanisms were a lot of fun to interact with. The props were big and chonky. We enjoyed a visual reveal.

 There was a bit of unevenness to the puzzles. In the first act, one puzzle sounded harder than the others, and it wasn’t particularly fun to try multiple times. In the second act, a puzzle appeared to involve collecting a set when it was something else entirely.

 The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein didn’t take itself seriously. Improbable Escapes made amusing choices for the solves leading into their final boss battle.

Tips For Visiting

• This game is located at Improbable Escapes Wonderland (500 Gardiners Road, Unit 2A).
• There are paid parking lots and street parking in the area.

Book your hour with Improbable Escapes’ The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Improbable Escapes comped our tickets for this game.

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