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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Sept 7, 2014 9:01:14 GMT
A friend of mine has posted photos to Facebook (Friends-locked, so they cannot be shared) of a day that she and her team had yesterday, playing six exit games (at four different sites) in the same day in California: Kuma Escape in Santa Clara Puzzle Break in San Francisco Room Escape with a Zombie in San Francisco Omescape: Forgotten Treasure, The Penitentiary and Room Omega in Richmond The team won four and narrowly lost two, but set a couple of "fastest solve" records along the way. No word yet as to which they enjoyed most. (Just to check, Essa, are you familiar with this Northern California list?) This sets, I suppose, an initial record to beat in two categories: most games played in a day and most sites visited in a day. I don't suppose either is close to insurmountable - for instance, apparently, "The Mindtrap" in Thessaloniki in Greece will be a single site with six different rooms. Additionally, surely at least the Toronto area and Budapest are at least as well-served as northern California for the purposes of visiting more than four sites in a day. There's also an argument that playing five or six or seven games in a single day might not be five or six or seven times as much fun as playing one game in a day. On the other hand, I can well imagine the manic nature of the travelling, and the planning involved, being of additional appeal to others, especially those with busy lives.
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Post by melindamouse on Sept 7, 2014 19:23:09 GMT
As the organizer of this particular crawl, I have a few comments. 1. Record number of rooms: We are aware of more escape rooms in the Bay Area, in particular SCRAP's Real Escape Rooms. However, most of us had already done both of those, so those were out. However, it would have been difficult to physically go to more of them. For the most part, although none of the connections were tight, there was only one place we could have fit in a whole other room (between finishing Kuma at 11:15am-ish and starting Puzzle Break at 2pm), and I'm not sure that any other room starts at a convenient time to slot in there.
If the games were all in one city or had slightly tweaked start times, 7 could have been easily possible, particularly if you don't need a lot of time to eat. You could try asking rooms to voluntarily start earlier or later, but many of these rooms are popular and have other showings the same day. Of course, if you asked for private showings on a weekday, and then rented a bus or something for everyone to minimize parking time, 8 would easily be doable. But then you're running into serious expense. Some of these sites (Kuma, and maybe Omescape) are looking to adding new games to their sites; once those are open, doing more than 7 in a day would be more feasible.
2. We did all three of Omescape's games. They were extremely nice and accommodating for us and have a very nice lobby to wait in (we even ate a late dinner there between two games). Highly recommend doing all 3 of theirs in a row, for anyone.
3. I found it way more fun to do six in a day than six over many days. The lows from one are balanced from highs from others, and it's nice to see the contrasts in the way different companies handle things. Also, it's also fun and exciting to race around the area all day and spend all day with the same group of good people.
4. There's another group (the original group, actually) doing the same schedule of crawls in 2 weeks. Expect them to beat our records of wins in a day...
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Sept 7, 2014 20:01:21 GMT
Hugely cool! Great fun to read about the specifics; thank you for sharing.
Come to think of it, I suppose it would be possible to score four sites and a half-dozen rooms in a single day in London alone, though clueQuest and HintHunt sell out so far in advance that it would take a co-ordinated piece of booking.
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Post by escapistto on Sept 8, 2014 3:25:44 GMT
I've only done 3 in a day!
In Toronto, several of the places have this promotion where admission is free on your birthday. I'm mapping out a path and biding my time for the day where I can spend a full 24 hours going from place to place
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Sept 8, 2014 11:53:43 GMT
When these quadruplets get a little older, if it turns out that they have a taste for these games of ours, then that promotion might prove mighty expensive...
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Post by Dscry on Sept 8, 2014 16:08:08 GMT
The lows from one are balanced from highs from others, and it's nice to see the contrasts in the way different companies handle things. I agree with that! As a regular room escape player, the most rooms my team had attempted in a day was 4 rooms. We only did it that one time because we were travelling and playing in another state. Some of my team members find it tiring to play 4 rooms in a day. My team usually plays 2 rooms in a day.
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Post by Essa on Sept 13, 2014 13:12:19 GMT
The team won four and narrowly lost two, but set a couple of "fastest solve" records along the way. No word yet as to which they enjoyed most. (Just to check, Essa, are you familiar with this Northern California list?) Thanks for posting the North California list Chris, I'm aware of most of the places on it except the San Jose Room Escape place. Will be adding it to my North America list asap. I know Real Escape Game are also launching a Silicon Valley room escape place soon, which will eventually get added to the list (... soon) escapistto - let us know how the list goes and how many places you can get free admission for a room escape game on your birthday. I can't really contribute to this topic as I haven't been to a room escape place yet unfortunately. Planning to soon, when prices come down and the room escape market in Australia becomes a bit more competitive. It's all really still new here right now.
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Nov 13, 2014 20:54:54 GMT
Daniel Hill, founder of the Escape chain of three games so far, went on not-holiday to Budapest earlier this week. He played 13 games in two days, so trivially there must have been one day with more than six games. :-) I'll seek a breakdown of whether the distribution was 7-6 or something even more skewed still.
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Nov 14, 2014 14:35:54 GMT
For completeness, there were five games played on Monday and eight on Tuesday. Eight in a day! Can anyone show me nine...? ;-)
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