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The line between an escape game and reality can be very blurry; let us show you how through a sort of escape game in real life. Here’s a clear example for you to compare an escape game and reality. It’s your anniversary and you’re already anticipating a romantic, candlelight dinner at the most prestigious restaurant in town. It’s Wednesday night, so it won’t be crowded and the atmosphere promises to be perfect. Your partner also has this well in mind, and he wouldn’t mind, but he faces a very serious problem: the Champions League. Get it?
On the one hand, he knows perfectly well that he cannot put this inner torment of his into words; on the other hand, his pride prevents him from giving up what has been, all along, his greatest passion.
Your partner therefore finds himself having to come up with a real plan, or blueprint, to try to escape from this extremely uncomfortable situation, while saving the goats and the cabbages.
Exactly as in an escape game.
In this case, the player, just like your partner, will have to plan a well-structured strategy to try to accomplish the mission he or she is given. All in the quickest and most painless way possible…
When it comes to escape rooms, investigations or murder mystery dinners, no reference is made to simple games based on riddles to solve and codes to guess. An escape game and reality are deeply connected: to be played well, it requires concentration, attention to detail, analytical skills, and creativity…
Your partner, if he has to convince you not to go out on the night of your anniversary, will not just say, “Let’s stay home.” Rather he will start by getting information about the weather forecast, to use, possibly as a bogeyman. Next, he might look very carefully for negative reviews of that restaurant on TripAdvisor, so that he can rightly advise against it. Then he will go out of his way to find simple but delicious recipes to offer you as an alternative, offering to treat you to a quiet evening at home.
Finally, he will list all the risks involved in leaving the house at night, taking the car, and going a few miles out of town, to warn you of what might happen. And he will certainly conclude by saying, “Don’t make me out to be the one who doesn’t want to go out to dinner, or who doesn’t care. I’m saying this for you, for us.”
You know? He, in fact, plays undercover. He never overexposes himself, never overbalances in one direction or the other.
Similarly, a good player of an escape game knows how to take information from various sources, how to check its reliability, and how to use it for his own purposes. He is never trenchant, he does not exclude anything beforehand, although the direction he tries to give to his own game strategy is very precise. He is able to move under the radar, to pick up details even in seemingly useless situations. Above all, like your partner, he tries to come out clean and with the keys to his success in his pocket, so he can make himself look good in the eyes of others.
It must be said that failure is just around the corner and that the cover might blow; however, let it not be said that he did not even try.
So if you have a partner or even if you don’t, but this way you’re moving forward; you can’t let this opportunity pass you by: try MysterU.
You will enter his world, be able to understand the strategies he will try to use with you, and know how best to defuse them.
If, on the other hand, you are the partner, take the big chance: try your hand at our mission, and refine your techniques with a view to their possible future use. Most importantly, if you are the partner, have your better half read this article and tell her, “Nice, but I would never do such a thing.”
You would thus begin, in the best way, your undercover activity, and blur the line between an escape game and reality.
Because after all, we know it well: the boundary between an escape game and reality is really very subtle.
