The Latest Craze in Mexico Is Getting Locked Inside a Room and Trying to Escape Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original June 19, 2015

Live Escape in the Mexico City (Enigma Rooms)

Locked inside an apartment in Mexico City’s trendy Colonia Roma neighborhood, four people frantically search for clues to defuse a bomb.

The group rushes to open doors, tears through books, peers underneath furniture and searches behind paintings for clues. They’ve got one hour to decode the hidden messages — or BOOM!!!

Well, not really BOOM!!! More like boom. It’s only a game — a sorta-but-not-really Sherlock Holmes-type mystery adventure that recently opened in Mexico City. The problem-solving experience is part of a growing global trend known as “enigma rooms,” which were first made popular in Asia and have since spread through Europe and into the Americas, even finding their way into this week’s episode of The Bachelorette.

A Live Escape Room Experience (The Basement)

The concept is simple but nerve-racking: you have 60 minutes to solve a puzzle and escape from a spooky room or boom.

“Enigma Rooms throw people into a video game or movie scenario where they must work together to escape,” says co-founder Victor Suarez, whose startup was launched last month in the Mexican capital.

The concept is also gaining popularity in the United States, and was also featured on a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory.



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