Tried a locked room adventure, failed, that was hard!
By Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
Centralia, Missouri
August 28, 2016 7:58pm CST
We figured we'd do something local tonight and tried a locked room adventure. You get an hour to figure out a bunch of clues and escape a locked room. We had 6 of the 8 locks done and were close to getting the seventh when we ran out of time. It was HARD, like super hard. Turns out that room has a 90 odd percent fail rate, like few people have solved everything in there, in time. We did not make it.
When we have the money we will go back, and try and easier room cause, yikes that was HAAAARD!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
well we had a set limit, an hour, so couldnt
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
I dont feel I was much help, but it was fun
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@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Aug 16
There s a show on cable called "Elevator" that is like that. I noticed it is coming back in October. Can't recall what station. Is it expensive?
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@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt .....Sounds like it was. Sometimes you don't have to win to have fun.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
this cost us around 50 so yeah, but we hadnt done anything fun together like that in months, so was worth it
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@lealuvy2j (1986)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
My friends and I also played that before. The first time we tried it, we failed but the second time in a different room, we were able to get out. It was fun though and very fulfilling that we were able to exercise our brains at the same time.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
a larger room one could be a fun thing with a big group yeah
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
29 Aug 16
sounds fun - did they show you what you should have done to solve the last two locks?
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
30 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt sounds like what I would want too - there is an episode of The Big Bang Theory where the gang try a locked room mystery and being nerds they solve it all too quickly and go home disappointed
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
yes but if we had known we'd have told him not too. we wanted to come back and zoom past what we knew and try again
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Aug 16
@arthurchappell I dont know that they would have gotten this one, maybe they would have but.... it was really hard lol
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@resolvingpartner (139)
• Turin, Italy
29 Aug 16
I have a coupon waiting to be use.
Do you suggest it? 
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
29 Aug 16
I would suggest you give it a try, Giorgio! (Hmmm... my pc just told me I haven't spoken to you before. Hello! It is my pleasure to meet you here on myLot!)
I've never actually done that type of thing before, but I have read several "locked room adventures" and thought they sounded like a lot of fun!
The most memorable one I've read was about several people being invited to an island for dinner and a "show". They never got to the show because their host was killed in the middle of a power outage while everyone sat around the dining room table eating. The people who were there had to solve the puzzle before they left the island the next morning or the murderer could have escaped...
Quite exciting to read and probably at least as exciting to be involved in the adventure! (Well, as long as you were not the one murdered, at least! LOL!)
If you do have the adventure, I hope you thoroughly enjoy yourselves! You really must let us know about it if you do it, too!
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@resolvingpartner (139)
• Turin, Italy
29 Aug 16
@DaddyEvil Sure! Thank you for the share
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
29 Aug 16
Sounds too difficult for me to figure out.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
it really was, if we do it again, we are doing an easier room
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
I just wish we had beat the thing!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
this was super hard, but fun
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
29 Aug 16
Okay, so it was difficult, Jess... Since you also said you and your husband are planning to go back and try another locked room adventure... That suggests that even though you found it too difficult to win the adventure, you both did have a lot of fun trying to solve the puzzles, right?
Intellectual endeavors can often be challenging... sometimes too challenging... but most of the time, even if we don't succeed, we still find ourselves having the best time in the cooperative effort! That makes the whole ordeal more than worth the time, effort and cost!
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
29 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt Working your way back up to trying that one later is probably what I would do, too. Usually, but not always, there are clues to help you solve the really hard ones in the easier ones. I think you may have started at the wrong end of the spectrum with those puzzles... (I could be wrong, too, but that is how the locked room puzzles were supposed to be done in the books I read about them.)
Better luck next time, hon!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
@DaddyEvil oh we did, but we didnt know it, we went for one with less people in it, not realizing it was hard. they needed to rate those on the website as of average difficulty level or something
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
yeah, we didnt feel quite so dumb when he told us just how few managed to beat it, still we want to go back later for an easier one and see if we cant work back up to the hard ones
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
29 Aug 16
That sounds like fun... i've not heard of it before.... sorry you Didn't quite finish in time... better luck next time 
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
it was, and yeah, next time I think we will do better.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
I wondered that, but that's against the rules! lol
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Aug 16
Sounds interesting...what were the clues like?
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
a book with numbers highlighted, pins on a corkboard, a scrabble board, some written clues, but those were in the boxes, so you had to figure out the book with the highlighted numbers first
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
@responsiveme I dont know, we found a place that had a house set up for people to get locked into rooms with preset puzzles!
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
29 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt Any ideawhere I can get an idea about this...rather interesting as I love detective fiction.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
30 Aug 16
We have something like that here at are local mall, haven't tried it yet though. Sucks you were so close but ran out of time, maybe next time you will get them all
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Aug 16
worth a go when you have time and some friends free
@Hate2Iron (15727)
• Canada
29 Aug 16
I never heard of that adventure. I'm not sure that I wouldn't panic if I couldn't find my way out!!
@jstory07 (139717)
• Roseburg, Oregon
29 Aug 16
I would not like that since I do not like enclosed spaces. I would panic.
@Tampa_girl7 (50253)
• United States
30 Aug 16
I have never heard of such a thing.......sounds fun.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Aug 16
I was looking for something to do close by and found it on Facebook, apparently they are all over
