Virtual Rooms: What are They and Why?

Sometimes you want to do an escape room but your homies are abroad. Or your family is scattered all around the country. Or you have a company that’s entirely online and your team works remotely but you still want to do a team building event. This is where Virtual Escape Rooms come to the rescue. Like “in person” escape rooms, these take many forms. Some virtual escape rooms have a host…

What’s going on, Behind Closed Doors?

It’s been a long time coming. We’ve been hard at work putting together innovative puzzles, building props and creating ambiance, and keeping the detective story line going. Behind Closed Doors continues the story of the crime ring in Kingston after Irene’s Kitchen closed down. We’re very excited to share this new experience with you. It’s been a summer full of learning curves, long nights,…

On Asking For Hints

You’re in an escape room, you’re bombarded with information. There are props, lights, sometimes sounds, and you need to figure out how it all goes together. You need to figure out what’s important and what’s just fluff. What is a clue and what is there for ambiance and story. If you’ve done many escape rooms in the past, you probably are able to recognize patterns quicker than most people. If…

Build Your Own Escape Room

Many people have done escape rooms, but how many have BUILT an escape room? The process of building a physical escape room is quite extensive; there’s conceptualizing the theme, creating the puzzles, building the props, making things as indestructible as possible (this is impossible), beta testing, and then opening the escape room so people can play it. All in all, an extensive, time consuming…

Behind the Scenes in an Escape Room

Escape rooms are supposed to create an immersive experience where guests have to complete a mission in a set amount of time. Here at Sherlock’s Escapes, we try to start the immersion process right from when guests pass through our doors. Our lobby is set up to look like the lobby of a detective agency, we greet everyone as a “detective”, and we look the part too. Griffin Mattes is one of…

Saying Good-bye To Culinary

After four years, our longest running case, A Culinary Pursuit closed on April 23rd, 2023. This case challenged and entertained thousands of detectives who came through the Sherlock’s Escapes Detective Agency. We have had a great time hosting this experience for so many in our community.                 At first, we were…

Play From Home

Play From Home Cases you can work on and help us solve with friends, family, and colleagues from all over the world. Our virtual cases and unsolved mysteries are sure to test your sleuthing skills from the comfort of your home! Virtual-Simulated These escape rooms play like an interactive radio drama over Zoom. You and your team listen to the story unfold as you tell the…

Story Driven Escape Room

Here at Sherlock’s Escapes, we don’t only provide an escape room experience that’s challenging and fun; we are looking to tell a story as well. We want our rooms to have engaging puzzles that challenge teams in different ways, all while telling a good story. Our most recent project, A Scandal in Kingston, consisted of re-vamping a lot of the puzzles in the room, which gave us the flexibility…

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