Escape Rooms

[Clodfobble]

Have you guys heard of this wildly popular new form of entertainment? Basically you and a handful of other people get locked in a room with lots of props and a fanciful backstory, and you have to find the clues to solve the puzzles and escape before your 60 minutes are up. It's the live-action version of classic Sierra adventure games.

We did our first one tonight (truth be told, the minute I found out such a thing existed I told Mr. Clod "Oh my God we are going how could I not want to do this??") and it was, indeed, balls-out fun. We ended up in the hardest room our place offered, mostly because we scheduled it on short notice and it was the one that still had spots left for the evening run. We literally started out in handcuffs, and escaped with 2 minutes 41 seconds to spare. (Okay, we got a few hints along the way. They start you out with a walkie-talkie you can use to ask the game coordinator a set number of hints.)

And now we're going to do every single one in Austin.