Escape box

ESCAPE BOX – ENTERTAINMENT FOR A WORK EVENT IN THE OFFICE

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ESCAPE BOX – ENTERTAINMENT FOR A WORK EVENT IN THE OFFICE

Case Study: Escape box, a mobile escape room used as an entertainment during a work event in the clients’ office – software production firm

Client: event agency Blu Experience looking for an attraction for Schibsted Tech Polska Sp. z o.o. company get together

Amount of players: 25

Time of realisation: 7 days (since receiving the order)

Time of gameplay: 2—hour entertainment in the Krakow office

Language:  Polish English

THE ORDER:

It was really short notice – we received the order for organizing a mobile escape room game in the clients’ office a week from now. We were excited to take that on! Our task was to:

  • Organize an engaging attraction for a comapny event that was taking place in their Krakow office
  • Making sure that the puzzles were difficult enough for software eingeneers
  • Making it happen really quickly

ESCAPE BOX FOR A COMPANY EVENT – THE PREPARATIONS

LOGISTICS:

We had only 7 days to prepare the game so we decided to use our trusted product: an escape box, which contains a whole escape room worth of puzzles in a mysterious black box. It works as if we used one of Ant-Man’s handy little devices to shrink a whole escape room, with all of it’s electronics, secret passages and riddles and tucked all of that into an elegant black box.

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THE STORY AND THE PUZZLES:

Do not be fooled by it’s size – the escape box will surprise you! It has everything that escape room enthusiasts love: connecting facts, codes and cyphers, looking for clues and even some phisycal challenges. Obviously, there was also a ticking clock. All of these elements made for an exciting game that works perfectly during teambuilding events and will keep even the most experienced riddlers occupied – we’ve been organizing events like that for 7 years now, so we were sure that the escape box would be a crowd pleaser! In case of an order with that short of a notice, we wanted to rely on a dependable solution.

ESCAPE BOX FOR A COMPANY EVENT – REALISATION:

The game was supposed to be organized for polish-speaking players, but when we arrived in the office we were asked to adjust the game to be in English. A situation like this could ruin the most meticulously planned event – not every puzzle can be instantly translated, most of them can’t be directly translated at all. Let’s imagine a simple scenario – the word cztery could be coded and you can’t just change it to four and work with the same coding device; you’d have to change the whole system.

How did we make it work?

Well, whatever the client wants, the client gets: luckily we were prepared for a quick language change:

  • The puzzles were designed with two languages in mind. It was quite a challenge at that stage, but we decided to put in the time to make it easier in the future – now we can switch the game language even in the middle of the event
  • Our whole team can speak fluent English, so we were able to coordinate the game in that language from the beginning. Collectively, we know 6 languages and even have a language expert on the team 😉

We’ve been in this business too long to let a little surprise like that throw us off.

The whole event went according to plan. For the 25-people teambuilding we came equipped with 5 escape boxes – each with a different set of puzzles. We devided the group into 5 teams and played five rounds so that every team had a chance to solve each of the boxes. That way everyone had a fair chance of winning.

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ESCAPE BOX FOR A COMPANY EVENT – EVALUATION

„The Black Box Challenge” that we proposed came to be a great hit during the event. The teams were fighting to be the winners of the challenge up to the last seconds. It was exciting to watch, like the olympics were happening right in front of us. The actual winners finished the challenge 38 seconds before the runner ups.

The game was heated but there was a really nice and joyous atmosphere. One team even decided to move their escape box a little closer to the catering table – to keep the energy high 😊 The winning team got a special prize from Schibsted company.

Seeing the players so excited, still discussing the game with other teams after it was all done was all the proof we needed – our job here was well done. We managed to get them out of their routine and move into an entirely new place – one full of puzzles, rivalry and engaing riddles.

We hope to keep doing that!

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Let’s prepare something together!

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