Escape Room Employees, what was the weirdest escape tactic you've seen?

I've learned not to make the final stage a lock with a key because damn if I haven't met some of the best lock picks in the state.

My family did an escape room and there was a room with a phone that connected to three other rooms.

The door only opened when you dialed the right numbers on the phone and so my sister just walked up and pressed redial and the last door opened.

We have the record of 7.5 minutes to complete the room. My brother and I once got out of a room

by taking a magnet from the previous puzzle and using it to lift a key out of a small opening

in a lockbox. There were six of us and nobody could figure out the last, so we improvised, got out with three minutes to spare.

Pretty good, kid.

I was told this by an employee.

There were paper clips to unlock handcuffs.

Someone stuck it into a functioning outlet.

I don't think that guy was trying to speed run the escape room.

Not an employee, but did a room with two friends where we got randomly placed with a family

with three kids under the age of 12. The youngest was maybe seven. We were like, oh man, we're not

going to get any help at all. Kids won't be able to solve anything, and their parents will have to

keep track of them. But there was this one part where you had to solve a puzzle that would allow you to move a bookshelf on treads.

There was a small gap through which you could see the key, but it was too small to get more than a few fingers through.

Unless you're a small seven-year-old boy. He just popped his arm in there and grabbed the key. We bypassed a good five minutes of the room that way.

Also, the kids ended up being delightful and pretty good at finding stuff. There was a group of

people who were doing a space-themed escape room. In one of the rooms there was an astronaut

suit, which was supposed to just serve as a prop, but one of the members thought that it might

be needed to solve one of the rooms. So he ended up traversing

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