# Has anybody ever done a real life ‘Escape the Room’ game?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-done-a-real-life-escape-the-room-game/761474 "2016-08-01T15:30:47Z")
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### Author: ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-done-a-real-life-escape-the-room-game/761474/21 "2016-09-04T19:25:53Z")

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Not a _game_, but I’ve had to fight my way out of one when it got blocked in by some falling debris and construction.

Tripler  
Sheetrock is easy. Steel–not so much.

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### Author: ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-done-a-real-life-escape-the-room-game/761474/22 "2016-09-04T20:05:31Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Blackbeard, they say, was particularly fond of Chopin’s etudes.

Impressive, since Chopin was born about a hundred years after Blackbeard died.

Hell, the piano was only invented about twenty years before Blackbeard died.

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### Author: ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-done-a-real-life-escape-the-room-game/761474/23 "2016-09-04T20:08:26Z")

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> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> You quoted my post, but I don’t think you were trying to respond to it.

Ah, you’re right. Sorry, too much wine.

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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-done-a-real-life-escape-the-room-game/761474/24 "2016-09-05T04:42:09Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Impressive, since Chopin was born about a hundred years after Blackbeard died.
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> Hell, the piano was only invented about twenty years before Blackbeard died.

Humor - it is a difficult concept.

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