In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life

There's an entertaining Spanish film called La Habitación de Fermat (Fermat's Room) which deals with this.

"Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room..."

Here's the trailer (w/ subs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fS74Y-qBs

Sounds somewhat like murder mystery dinner parties. Also: why does NYT hijack the left and right arrows to take me away to another article?

These are awesome. I did a couple in Warsaw, one in Budapest and now one in Prague.

I use it mostly as a 2nd/3rd date to find out how people handle stress/cooperate, but they're really fun too.

It's interesting how much LARP ideas are beginning to diffuse into general culture. Lastly I was talking to someone who basically organized themed mini-LARPs for corporate teams. Since these are audiences who generally aren't familiar with the medium, they're always amazed.

I think as our natural environment continues to become safer and more virtualized, these immersive adventures and ARGs will become more popular and mainstream.

It's not exactly the same, but TrueDungeon has a similar premise of "a small group of people attempts to figure out puzzles together to get through something".