3 Essential Skills to Win Your Escape Game

Photo: Mar Newhall

It really does take all sorts of people to successfully solve an escape room. Everyone has different strengths and different ways of looking at things. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some essential skills that every escape game player can benefit from.

Power up these essential skills and you’ll become the fiercest escape gamer your group has ever seen. You might even leave us Krakit Escape Game staff quaking in our boots!

1. Observation

There’s a good reason we’re so obsessed with all things Sherlock, and that’s because there’s no one better at this essential escape game skill. Observing requires seeing what’s really in front of you, not what you expect to see in front of you.

Training yourself to analytically see details rather than the bigger picture takes some time and concentration to perfect. Here’s a guide from Lifehacker to get you started.

2. Pattern recognition

The next essential escape game is pattern recognition: being able to take everything you’ve observed and see how it all fits together. This requires stepping out of an analytical mind frame and into a more inventive one—shifting brain gears, if you will.

Get started on building your pattern recognition skills with this handy guide from Predictable Success.

3. Problem solving

Now comes the skill where you put it all together: problem solving. This is the only skill that will lead to you cracking each puzzle and ultimately the entire escape room.

Problem solving is definitely the most creative of these three essential escape game skills, often requiring novel thinking. However, while intuition and creativity are an important facet of problem solving, those “aha moments” aren’t going to happen without all the analytical and logical thinking that came before.

Start with Business Insider’s “5 Steps to Becoming an Expert Problem Solver” to level up your skills.

Put your essential escape game skills to the test in one of Krakit’s four themed escape rooms. Book here: http://bookeo.com/krakit.