Where is the E-Exit? Escape the Escape Room

With the winter weather upon us we all need a little pick me up, specifically, one that is indoors.
Lucky for you West-Coast Ducklings, mama duck Claudia has a game for you to play. The game is called, "Find the exit in 50 minutes or die trying."

I kid, but only about the fatal part.

Basically a Cage built for you - Photo via https://e-exit.ca/

Nestled safe at the address of 9111 Beckwith Road, Richmond (and sounding all too similar to a literal call for help) there is a little, dark, but mostly unassuming beige builidng that traps people in a room at a time to simulate all sorts of horrors and disasters.

"It's fun." My coworker insists, shoving articles and links from his phone to my face. 

2-10 men and women at a time walk into this innocent seeming building, and are greeted by the sweet receptionist who offers to take care of their jackets and belongings, only to be led into a small room and convinced that they are the survivors of some tragedy and locked in that post apocolyptic death trap.

The wild part is people pay for that.

"Oh that's not the fun part," my coworker tells me, "it's about the riddles." 

He explains that the group of game players (or poorly misguided victims I would call them) willingly enter this terrifying simulation to solve riddles.

Patterns, numbers, keys, and colours. The players are placed in different rooms, with different scenarios, and different levels of difficulty to use their powers of observation and deduction to morph into one ultimate form fueled 100% by teamwork.

However, should you and your team fail, your group of friends could very well be killed by a ghost, blown into smithereens, or simply stuck forever in that little room (forever in this scenario being 50 minutes).

A Ravenclaw's dream - Photo via https://e-exit.ca/

"The fun part is finding the way out, and there's always a way out." My coworker tells me again.

And the tragic thing is I belive him.

- Claudia