Never get stuck inside an escape room again, with this strategy guidebook to beating your favorite immersive interactive game8212from a wellknown game designer and puzzle enthusiastChances are you have visited an escape room, whether for a birthday party, a corporate teambuilding exercise, or as a weekend excursion with your friends But what does it take to maximize your chances of solving the puzzles, while ensuring everyone has a good time along the way? Planning Your Escape is the perfect guide to making sure you never get stuck in another escape room again Game designer extraordinaire Laura Hall has all the best strategies for every room you might encounter, so your team can function like a welloiled machine This guide offers: A history of puzzles and experiential entertainment, from the 4,000yearold dexterity puzzles of Mohenjodaro to the spectacle of immersive theater installations like Secret Cinema, Meow Wolf, and Sleep No More Different types of escape rooms, and solvable examples of the common puzzles they employ Common escape room player personality types, and how best to work with them and Advice for constructing your own escape rooms and puzzle hunts Bringing in a cast of experts, Planning Your Escape is the musthave strategy book for any escape room enthusiast, puzzle fan, and aspiring experience designer Get ready to wow your friends and impress your coworkers with your new skills, and never enter a room you can8217t get out of again