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Here’s why you should try an online escape room game for a change. If you’re tired of scrolling through your Instagram home or spending Saturday nights hugging a bowl of popcorn watching yet another episode of a TV series, we have an idea to reignite your synapses: try an online escape room game and then you won’t want to do anything else!
If you don’t know what online escape rooms are, you can catch up with the post where we tell you about them here.
If you know what we are talking about, in this article, we will explain why an online escape room game can be a boon to our brains.
The various lockdowns of the last period have certainly had an impact, as well as on our mood, and on our brains: enjoying social networks and watching movies and videos are extremely passive activities, which do not require much brain effort. But our brain needs stimuli that make it active, it needs training, just as if it were a muscle, otherwise, it will tend to get used to passivity, and this is detrimental to reasoning and problem-solving skills.
That is why there are crossword puzzles, books, and brain teasers, which allow the brain an active type of entertainment. But today we want to tell you about a different and fun method to train your reasoning skills, which are escape rooms playable online.
Puzzles have always piqued our curiosity as human beings. Who has never found himself with a Rubik’s cube in his hand and the spasmodic urge to solve it? That’s because our brains are stimulated by games of logic and mystery, and when faced with a problem they want to find a solution. Playing a MysterU online escape room game combines this need with a fully immersive gaming practice to make the puzzle-solving experience fun and engaging.
But let us now see how an online escape room game can benefit our thinking. First, it should be said that there are two types of thinking, linear thinking and lateral thinking. Linear thinking has always been thought to be the most valuable, the one that moves vertically and follows a cause-and-effect pattern that does not involve deviations.
Juxtaposed to this is lateral thinking, an expression first used by psychologist Edward De Bono in the 1960s. Thanks to him, studies and insights into what used to be considered only “creativity” are inaugurated. Lateral thinking is what allows one to arrive at a resolution by stepping outside of ordinary patterns, allows one to think broadly, to try different avenues and, to this day, is one of the skills most in demand even when recruiting in work environments.
Lateral thinking, to understand it, is the one used by the world’s most beloved detective, Sherlock Holmes. The benefits of using it are many, even on a day-to-day level, because it allows us to find solutions where we may feel stuck, whether in chores or more ordinary issues. In fact, looking at a situation from different perspectives helps us find a solution more easily, thus making our lives easier!
Now, there are two pieces of news here: the bad news is that not everyone can think laterally and divergently: lateral thinking is a skill in its own right, there are those who have it by nature, those who are trained to look at things from different perspectives, and those who are more tied to vertical thinking.
But the good news is that this kind of reasoning can be trained, and this points back to us and our MysterU. To solve the cases we propose, you will have to bring to bear your skills in circular, lateral reasoning. You will have to be creative, which does not mean unscientific, but simply thinking outside the box, like real detectives. And this will be reflected in the way you approach any kind of problem in your life.
So, what is the advantage of playing an online escape room game instead of another activity that can stimulate reasoning anyway? We give you four advantages: fun; of course; immersion; realism; and entertainment. Because whether you play them alone or in company, the online escape room game experience is a game first and foremost and as such it guarantees all these aspects. Try it to believe!
