"Oh yeah, candy! Grab some on the way into the room. I need the sugar to help me think." At School of Hard Locks, it’s not just work, work, work. Yes, we spend long hours devising new puzzles, testing them with the newest members of our Faculty, and then ignoring the Faculty’s pleas to be released from the new Escape Room. But let's face it. Everybody has got to eat. Our puzzle master, as it turns out, is also a skilled cook. And attention to detail, focus, and culinary

"We need some team building. What can we do? I know, let’s go bowling? How about go-karts? Nah, let’s just go out for Happy Hour!" Companies often come to us looking for Team Building experiences. We ask them what other activities they have done in the past and we hear, “bowling, go-karts, laser tag, drinking.” All fun activities. Really fun activities. But then we ask them what their objectives are for this ‘team building.’ “Well, we are having communication issues,

You know, I spend a lot of time at SOHL and I observe a lot of groups. What never ceases to fascinate me is the family groups - we have multi-generational families come in together to try their hands at the Escape Rooms: children, parents, grandparents, cousins, all locked in together - talk about togetherness. Family groups, of all the groups I see, have the most emotions that come into play – when they come in to play with us. Yeah, you guessed it, there are teenagers who