Vegas Locks Down The Locked Room Escape

To help Vegas stay as unique as possible, visitors and locals can try an interesting new kind of activity where you’re thrown into a locked room on purpose and told to “figure it out.” Locked room escapes have their roots stemming from an internet sensation beginning around 2001, but they're just beginning to make their waves in an offline format. The trend is on the rise with one open venue in Vegas and another on the horizon.

Live Room Escape, which opened this past May, is located in a relatively industrial area on Desert Inn and the I-15. Toted as an "interactive thriller adventure experience," the Live Room Escape gives you a choice of three themed rooms, Sherlock, Trap or Saw, after the popular horror flick. They recently started offering a room on Sundays only, themed after The Hunger Games. Grab anywhere from one partner to a max of 10 people and try to escape your room-of-choice in under 60 minutes using only your cunning mind and observational skills.

There is another mysterious version of the live room escape opening near the "end of October" called Lockdown Vegas, and while their offerings are a little more under wraps before the opening, we can still get excited if it involves riddle-solving and clue-hunting.

Local resident Kat Soder recently tried out the Live Room Escape.

"As someone born and raised in Las Vegas, I'm always looking for a new adventure," said Soder. "Live room escapes are a truly innovative game that combines problem-solving skills with unique scenarios."

Innovative indeed. Now I can actually put those locked room skills to work after honing them online since the early 00's.