New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
10 CT escape rooms to get you out of the house
Many of us are looking to escape our homes, or at least just take a brief vacation from reality. Why not try out your sleuthing skills with friends or family at an escape room?
For those of you who have always wanted to be like Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, discovering clues and secret passageways, escape rooms allow patrons to solve a puzzle that frees them from a room within a time limit — all without the aid of their smartphones.
Check out these 10 escape rooms around Connecticut.
Wigwam Escape — Washington
The Wigwam Escape is part of the Institute for American Studies Museum and Research Center and offers patrons the opportunity to learn about indigenous people while they play. Players learn that a nearby fishing village has requested help, so they must hunt, forage and gather supplies for a journey ahead.
Visit iaismuseum.org/wigwamescape.
Escape Rooms Connecticut — Orange
Choose from four different options in Escape Rooms Connecticut, where guests can choose between cracking clues to preventing an alien invasion in Sector X, exploring an ancient temple in The Stolen Relic, preventing a train disaster in The Terminal or tracking ghosts in The Asylum.
Visit escaperoomsct.com.
Escape New Haven — New Haven
Escape New Haven offers four in-person escape options, a remote escape and an outdoor option. Those looking to visit an escape room can uncover secrets in a log cabin in Before Moonrise, experience the occult in The Crypt, solve a puzzle in The Gallery or test out their trivia skills with The Game Show. Outdoors guests can roam around New Haven as they unlock the secrets of Chauncey Jerome in The Chauncey Conundrum.
Visit escapenewhaven.com.
Mission Escape Games — West Hartford
At Mission Escape Games, guests have two options to choose from: save the world from the apocalypse in Operation Escape: End of Days, or tussle your way out of Dr. Jekyll’s lab in Escape the Hydeout.
Visit missionescapegames.com/connecticut.
Complexity Rooms — Farmington
Choose from four different puzzles at Complexity Rooms. Take on pirate ghosts in Hunt for the Dead Sea Souls, survive the storm in The Blizzard, track down your lost belongings in The Mall, or plan a break-in to fix a time machine in The 47th Street Mission.
Visit complexityrooms.com.
Panic Room — Norwalk
Choose from two different options at Panic Room. Try to escape before the room blows sky-high in Tik Tok, or solve the puzzling events at a hotel in The Last Resort.
Visit panicroomct.com.
Adventure Rooms — Middletown
This escape room has four different puzzles to solve. Guests can take on an art caper in The Hidden Cabin, find the cure in a nuclear wasteland in Remedy ... 25 Years Later, save the future with a time traveler in Tim Bender, or stop a secret plot in Swiss Original.
Visit myadventurerooms.com/connecticut.
Pursue the Clues — Torrington
Pursue the Clues offers three different puzzles for patrons to solve, including an art theft in Mission is a Gogh, saving a musician’s soul in Lenny Thompkins Sold his Soul to Play the Blues, or tracking down a black widow in The Gold Digger.
Visit pursuetheclues.com.
Trapt Escape Room Adventures — Stamford
Virtual or in-person patrons can track down clues at Trapt Escape Room Adventures. Save the president from a mysterious disease in Time Chasers: Race for the Cure, escape a kidnapper in Abducted: Escape from the Madman, or locate the missing artifacts in Museum Mayhem.
Visit traptct.com.
Escapology — Trumbull
Choose from six different puzzles at Escapology. Try your hand at stopping a nuclear war in Cuban Crisis, find the cure and save the day in Antidote, locate a murderer in Budapest Express, uncover treasure in Lost City, solve a murder in Mansion Murder, or stop a castle disaster with the Mystery Machine gang in Scooby Doo.
Visit escapology.com/en/trumbull-ct.