A couple of days ago (Friday), a group of friends and I decided to try out one of the new escape games in town. There's so many now I've lost count. Unfortunately for us, the time slot we wanted was completely booked. So we were only able to book for the 9:30 slot. Since the escape game was in Richmond, we decided to eat in Richmond after work as well. Initially we decided to cook pasta at my co-worker's place, but then we ended up trying out a ramen place called Yah Yah Ya.
After dinner, we went over to my co-worker's place to kill some time before heading to the escape game.
This escape game location was unique in the sense that it only had one room. No themes. You were given an extended amount of time of 1 hour and at the end of it all the person goes through explaining all the puzzles with you. We had a group of eight with us playing. I won't go into details about the room but I will say we started it off handcuffed to a partner. In the end, we managed to escape from the room with 2 minutes and 15 seconds left to spare. Talk about close timing. The guy told us we were the second group out of roughly 8 to succeed. And for succeeding, we all could choose a key off the wall and write our names on it. All in all, the escape game was interesting as it was not all numerical questions and required more thinking, but it wasn't particularly hard. However, that could be because we had 8 minds.
We ended the night grabbing drinks at Pearl Castle several blocks away. We didn't get home till 1 am that night! But it was definitely a fun night.
Yah Yah Ya
8388 Capstan Way
Richmond, BC
Escape Key
5951 Minoru Blvd
Richmond, BC
