#927 - The Great Escape! Video Game Maker Creates Real-Life Puzzle Rooms
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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An employee for a video game company turns a childhood love for adventure into a real-life escape room business.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever been to an escape room? |
| 0:11.7 | I first heard of escape rooms maybe three or four years ago, I suppose. |
| 0:15.7 | I went and did it. |
| 0:16.7 | I've done it twice now. |
| 0:17.8 | Both times with different members of the WDS team. |
| 0:20.9 | First time was a couple years ago. |
| 0:22.0 | The second time was just a few months ago. |
| 0:24.1 | It's a really fun team building experience. |
| 0:26.6 | I don't know that I would want to do it with strangers, but with people you know, |
| 0:29.8 | it's really fun to go to this activity center and go into a room where you're essentially |
| 0:35.4 | locked in. |
| 0:36.4 | Not really, but it's an activity. |
| 0:37.9 | It's fun. |
| 0:38.9 | You're locked in for an hour and you have to solve puzzles in order to escape. |
| 0:43.0 | As I said, it's team building. |
| 0:44.0 | You get to work together. |
| 0:45.0 | There's usually lots of little riddles and different kinds of puzzles. |
| 0:48.8 | If you're not good at some of them, hopefully somebody else on the team is. |
| 0:53.2 | It was a lot of fun. |
| 0:55.2 | From a business perspective, I've been learning about escape rooms and preparation for this |
| 0:58.4 | episode. |
| 0:59.5 | They're not cheap. |
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