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Different Kinds of Escape Room Players

Escape rooms are a fun group activity to share with your friends and family. Figure out what kind of player your friends are when forming a party.

By Jen HenseyPublished 5 years ago 4 min read

After running numerous escape room in Perth, Australia, it's becoming apparent that there are a variety of different types of matches. - everyone has a special way of taking on escape room challenges, and each archetype brings something different to the table. Let's walk over them and learn about their pros and cons.

The Lock Pickers

These are the types of people who immediately go straight for the locks and start fiddling with it. Often they find the actual numbers in the room and try them. Most times they're already beginning to spin the variations without any guidance at all. It may be confusing to watch the camera at this end.

In nearly all situations, locking pickers struggle to do their style of play demands – pick locks. However, when they do, the reaction is usually positive. It appears to screw up the rhythm of the game. Instead of taking a straight and narrow path, it has been thrown out of the rhythm, and usually, a puzzle has been left unsolved. This will muddle the game, and the game master will have to intervene and explain to the player why they should have left a certain puzzle alone.

The Squirrel Chasers

Every room has a lot of enthusiastic teams, but none like the squirrel hunters. They jump from a puzzle clue to a puzzle clue like a dog finding a darn squirrel in the forest. Run, run, run after the squirrel, and forget you did anything else! For most players having a squirrel chaser can be more of a detriment than an asset. This is usually because the squirrel chaser will usually jump from one puzzle to another without solving them. Leaving other group members to circle back and solve the puzzle they thought was already solved.

The Eagle Eyes

Those are the players who are spotting ALL! Having an eagle-eyed group member will increase your chances of breaking the speed record. The pros here quickly outweigh the cons, but often there are cons. It's going back to the squirrel hunters; they're actively working on a mystery as the eagle's eye detects something new and distracts them, and they're running away to explore the new hint. We'll take the eye of the eagle every day to get the specifics on the marker board when we need them!

The Busy Bodies

Busybodies usually fall into two subclasses. One is genuinely busy and is going around the room solving puzzles and helping teammates offering ideas for escape room. The other is just pretending to look busy to hide the fact that he knows nothing! Successful attempts at solving puzzles will make useful busy bodies known. And on the other hand, busybodies that only appear to be busy will fly under the radar. We don't know if players call out unhelpful busybodies during the game. Still, it's usually easy to spot after the team has left the room, and everyone is talking about the puzzles they solved, and you will see a timid teammate hanging in the back.

The Touchers

This sort of player will either be amazing because they discover secret items or don't have much use when they won't let go of their favorite puzzle toy. We've seen it numerous times – one of these players will cling to a puzzle, never let it go, determined to find it out, and they'll end up flipping and spinning it for most of the hour! Almost like locksmiths, they're drawn to immersive challenges and seem to get lost. We see a lot of Touchers in escape rooms in Perth, Australia.

The Thinkers

It's hard to read this player. They're going to consume the contents of the puzzle and the hints and sort of slip to the side and start brewing up an idea for escape room. They're vulnerable to explosions as they solve puzzles that can be annoying, but the result is that the puzzle is solved, so it's a positive thing. The thinkers still make us nervous in our harder quarters. Regardless of the type of puzzles we put in front of you, we want people to enjoy themselves. But when a thought pulls off, occasionally, it's hard to tell whether they're dreaming and enjoying fun or whether they're irritated. A handful of times, we had thinkers walk out of a room looking angry but claiming to have enjoyed themselves. We love having Thinkers at escape rooms in Perth, Australia.

The Dancers

These players are amazing. They burst into a dance if they solve a puzzle. It raises the halls' spirits, gives us a lot of videos for our YouTube page, and all in all. It makes everyone happy. Unfortunately, the dancers perform like they're thrilled that they finally solved something as if they were surprised that they did so that they had it in them! Dancers will not be the first to offer ideas for escape room. They're going to get worked up after their dance, and they're going to hover around waiting for a conclusion to the puzzle so they can make some new steps.

Everyone takes on the challenge of escape rooms. Differently, there is no right way to go about it. Some people want to break records, some want to exercise their minds, and some people are just playing for its fun. Figure out the folks you want on your team the next time you visit the hottest escape room Perth, Lost Reality Escape.

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About the Creator

Jen Hensey

Call me Jen, a writer and blogger of LifeStyleConvo & UrbanHouses, who worked as a full-time content creator. A writer by day and reader by night.

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