Okay, as many of you know, I write books as well as this blog, and it is exciting when you write about something and see it come to life. In case you are unfamiliar with my book The Labyrinth House, it is about a man who is trapped in a house, and he cannot leave. The only way out is to solve a series of puzzles.

As you can guess, this book was probably inspired by video games like Myst or other point and click games. Just to let you know, I originally conceived this idea as a TV series, but I was able to novelize what would be the “Pilot” episode. Little did I know that someone has actually been working on this in real life.

According to my Source, real-life escape rooms “have taken the world by storm in recent years with now close to 1,400 rooms spread across 277 cities and 53 countries around the world”. The basic premise is that you and others are trapped in a room and have to solve a mystery made of puzzles in order to be free.

Yeah, that is just like my book, and I swear that I never spent any time in one of these Escape Rooms. My Source talks about the Enigma Room which works like an FPS, and Matt Lee of this group has stated that “we’re getting people to live a video game or live a movie”.

All right, I don’t have one of these escape rooms in my neighborhood. Heck, I consider myself lucky to have a Laser Tag near me. I think I may have tapped into a fad, and I’m going to see how long this fad will last.

Source