Talk:Escape room

Koszalin escape room fire was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Escape room. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Escape rooms as marketing vehicles

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Does anyone else just think this is a platform for escape room owners to advertise, very little info apart from this! 2.161.127.20 (talk) 07:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this has crossed through WP:EXAMPLEFARM and looks like a straight WP:NOTDIRECTORY now. Anything without a secondary source should be cut - ideally we could actually write a coherent history of the genre that talks about where it originated and how it spread worldwide, and write about the different types of game that are out there. A bland and arbitrarily ordered list of examples doesn't help the reader to understand the subject. --McGeddon (talk) 00:38, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've now cut everything that was only sourced to the organisers' own websites, and shaped what little remained into "History" and "Reception" sections. --McGeddon (talk) 18:47, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the history section and the "Origin" game created by silicon valley systems programmers: having looked at the citations, the Baidu article no longer seems to mention the Origin game. I found an archived version of the Newzstreet article http://archive.is/4qRDK#selection-473.244-473.327 and it suggests that this much is legend, not fact: "legend has it that in 2006 a group of Silicon Valley system by programmers" Has anyone been able to find corroborating sources? Seems unreliable.-- Mattboch (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No time to edit just now, but Escape Rooms have a long history before 2006. In the UK, television shows such as The Adventure Game and Now Get Out of That from the 1980's are clearly progenitors of the modern escape room game. Similarly, The Crystal Maze as a 1990's example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.30.60 (talk) 12:33, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs a lot of assistance as even the main description is misleading - it requires a good structure to avoid it being used as a marketing tool for escape games — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aberuk (talk • contribs) 19:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest the definition gets changed to the one used here: https://www.escaperoomuk.com/wiki/What_is_an_Escape_Game — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aberuk (talk • contribs) 09:46, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Could we get this page in order please. I have suggested changes but they keep being reverted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.194.56 (talk) 15:14, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I asked an Escape Game expert to start getting this page in order, but there edits were changed and reverted by editors who have either personal gain to make or no experience of the genre — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.130.175.209 (talk) 10:34, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This page is getting worse and worse, the latest addition to puzzles is so specific and not generic to the page. There must be a wiki editor who knows about escape games to get on here and put this page in order — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.194.56 (talk) 17:14, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some attempts at cleaning up some of the sections and chose an escape room definition from a cited whitepaper which seems to cover the majority of escape rooms. errol (talk) 20:47, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Listing companies

If this page should not adverise escape room companies how is it possible that Hinthunt, Adventure rooms etc not only are listed but also have their own page in wikipedia, if this is allowed should not every company be allowed to do the same? Is a link to one or several of the many listings pages for escape the room games acceptable, http://escaperoomdirectory.com/ for example or http://live-escape-games.blogspot.de/ both seem to be non comercial? 2.161.9.215 (talk) 14:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC) Shaun[reply]

If an individual escape room company "has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources" (per WP:NCORP) then it merits a full article. If it hasn't, it doesn't. An unbiased directory link in the "External links" section would be fine. --McGeddon (talk) 18:32, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External directory links

The article currently has four external links to different directory sites:

http://live-escape-games.blogspot.de is a blog that lists 224 games in Europe and links to a few other directories (including escaperoomdirectory.com)
http://playexitgames.co.uk is a site that lists 365 worldwide (but zero in North America?)
http://escaperoomdirectory.com is a bare bones site that lists 1327 games worldwide and links to other directories (including escaperoomhub.com)
http://escaperoomhub.com is a map site with perhaps 200 sites worldwide

Which of these (if any) should the article link to? From the depth of information, the geographical range and the fact that at least one other site links to it, I'd go for just escaperoomdirectory.com. Any thoughts? --McGeddon (talk) 15:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've been WP:BOLD and cut it back to escaperoomdirectory.com (the single site with the most entries and which one of the others links to), in the absence of any other suggestions. --McGeddon (talk) 12:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

http://playexitgames.com now lists over 700 sites - more than any other escape room directory. Perhaps this should be included? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.205.78 (talk) 22:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As stated above, escaperoomdirectory.com lists twice that many. --McGeddon (talk) 16:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

escaperoomdirectory.com lists 811 sites. Playexitgames.com lists 901 sites, and in far more detail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.153.92.188 (talk) 15:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: page moved with unanimous support after a week. McGeddon (talk) 18:03, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Real-life room escape → Escape room – "Escape room" seems to be the more common term for these things at the moment, with around 100,000 Google News results, and only 500 for "real-life room escape". McGeddon (talk) 10:24, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This is definitely the common name. kennethaw88 • talk 23:15, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support per recognizability. SST flyer 14:37, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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What if you have not solved the game when the time runs out?

This is a very frequently asked question. Yet not all escape room websites have information on what happens when the time runs out, nor do any newspaper articles say that, nor does this page yet say that. Some pages say that when time runs out staff will let customers out from the room even if they have not solved the game yet. But that's only some escape room websites that say that, others don't. This question is to anyone who has been to an escape room when the time ran out: were you properly let out when the time ran out? 193.64.196.176 (talk) 12:39, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to Wikipedia - very knowledgable on Escape Rooms. I apologise if I have put this in the wrong section but this question directly above spurred me to write.

Escape Rooms have grown up independently all over the world this means they work differently in Europe/Asia/US/UK, this needs to be reflected in the article. Also as they have developed different rooms have different rules

The rules overall are the same - this article needs to be written by someone who knows the industry and wiki editors who don't need to stop reverting any edits they make - at present this page is factually incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aberuk (talk • contribs) 10:02, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can answer the question about what happens if you don't escape, but not sure where to put this ?

Also, There is now a red bull MIND Games World competition taking place in 2017

Also lots of examples of pop-up games for marketing and recruitment now, worth a seperate section?

LizLTU (talk) 13:07, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AdventureRooms wiki entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdventureRooms wiki entry is basically just advertisement and should be deleted or at least included in here. ~~

Worthy of mention?

Tragedy in an escape room in Poland, Jan. 2019:

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEBJfDoHMp7J841cR15qvRH0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowvIaCCzDnxf4CMM2F8gU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen 5.34.23.23 (talk) 03:12, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Koszalin escape room fire. I'm puzzled that the discussion was closed with a consensus to merge to this article, because the nominator withdrew the nomination. Jim Michael (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reception section

This needs edited or renamed to something like "In Popular culture" 185.74.25.174 (talk) 10:48, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structural Overhaul

As mentioned earlier, there is a lot that can be improved in regards to this entry. I'm rearranging how topics are organized and adding more references in as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eelumir (talk • contribs) 20:37, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Role-playing game Escape Room?

I hope this isn't considered over-the-line as far as self-promotion, but I wrote an adventure for the RPGA Dungeons & Dragons organized play program in 1998 called "Anduri's Wandering Conundrum." It was an adventure that takes place in a single room. The players are trapped in the room and must uncover the story behind the room in order to solve multiple interconnected puzzles and escape the room. There is a clue mechanism that allows the players up to 3 hints. In short, the adventure had all of the hallmarks of a modern escape room, but it was played by groups of 4-6 players in D&D around a table. So, it is somewhere between a video game version of an escape room and a live-action version as far as categorizing it into an appropriate article. The game would have been played at conventions by hundreds or thousands of players around the world as part of the RPGA Living City Campaign^[1].

There are not many references to it online, but here are a few: ^[2] ^[3]

Archinidamos (talk) 01:51, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_campaigns

[2] ttps://boardgamegeek.com/rpgitem/228639/anduris-wandering-conundrum

[3] ttps://raven-s-bluff-the-living-city.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/anduris-wandering-conundrum

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