A escape room box, playing in large groups?
Escape rooms are popular. Everywhere you look and in whatever city you live: nowadays there is always an escape room within a small radius. But escape rooms have long since ceased to be just a classic room you have to escape from. Its popularity is driving innovation. Escape room games and concepts are suddenly taking many different forms.
In this article, we discuss the escape room in a box format. At Heroes Inc, we develop these escape room boxes. We deploy these for many different purposes, from onboarding to training and from recruitment to company outings. And in doing so, we can promise you one thing, we live an unforgettable experience at all times, and we hear that back from our clients. But what advantages does the escape room box have? And how can you best use it?
An escape room game in a box instead of a locked room
By now, the concept of an escape room is well known to everyone: you enter a room with your friends or colleagues and the door behind you locks. The only way for all of you to get out again is to escape from this locked room. By solving different puzzles and working well together you can free yourselves.
An escape room box is actually exactly the same concept, but inside out: instead of a locked room you have to get out of, this is a box you have to get in. You play the escape box with the same number of people as an escape room, ideally four to six people. And the duration is about the same, because the escape box also offers an average of 75 minutes of challenges.
The box escape room, playable in different themes
The escape room boxes we have developed at Heroes Inc. are very ingenious. The escape boxes are divided into different compartments and levels, which open via mechanical locks. In each new box you open, you encounter a new puzzle and a piece of the story. The solution to this task gives you access to a new level, and so you progress through the story step by step.
Our escape room boxes therefore have a great advantage: they are open frameworks into which new information can easily be put. It is possible to create a new escape box puzzle and write a story for each box. Thus, the same box can be used for many different themes with some minor adjustments.
Want a fun version for a company outing? No problem. Would you still prefer a more substantive game and learn about leadership? We can arrange that too. Or do you want your own box completely customized to suit your learning needs and content? Even that is an option. We have developed escape boxes for themes and topics such as leadership, sustainable employability, onboarding, and specific training courses.
Playing an escape room at any location
Of course, an escape room box has another big advantage over an on-site escape room. Because of its handy size, the escape box can be played at any location. All the escape box needs is space for a group of five people and a place to set up the box. This can be a normal table, or a desk or a standing table.
In addition, the escape box is easy to scale up and down in numbers. For example, you can use the escape box in your meeting room to play with 15 people, but you can also have up to 100 people playing at the same time in a conference hall by placing 20 escape boxes in the large room. The possibilities are endless.
An escape room outside at bar tables
Are you already thinking about what you and your organization are going to do as a company outing this summer? Of course you would like to enjoy the sun, but everyone knows the annual BBQ by now. Moreover, you want to do something fun together, instead of being split up for different activities.
With the escape box, you simply bring the escape room fun outside. All together outside at bar tables or sitting in the grass as a picnic setting. Fanatically puzzling in the sun you can sweat for victory, or you can take it a bit more relaxed and enjoy the game. Thus, there is something for everyone.
Renting an escape room box for any occasion
In short, as far as we are concerned, the escape room box is a welcome new addition to the world of escape rooms and escape games. We continue to recommend the best escape room box to many of our clients because of the ease with which it can be deployed, the unique experience it can have by playing with a large group at the same time, and the ease with which it can be customized to the client's needs.
So whether you are organizing a company outing, training, branding event or onboarding program, we at Heroes Inc will make sure your participants will never forget it with our escape room box. That is always our goal: to create experiences that everyone is talking about. Not only about the escape box, but also about the subject you want them to talk about.
