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Welcome to Podcast

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This Escape, the podcast

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where we talk about the escape room

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that we escaped

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from in the previous episode of this podcast.

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Lauren, Rita, you did it! Congratulations!

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Did you have fun? Did you enjoy the room? Yes.

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You're not supposed to ask that anymore. I'll

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ask whatever I want. So I

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can edit the response together. Yes,

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that was fun. Was it

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what you expected? I don't know

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that I had any expectations. I

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think I definitely was

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a lot more prepared to go

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through the documents out of order

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before I knew anything about the employee. So

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that was, I think, the one misapprehension that

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I had. Yeah, fair

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enough. It is one of these things, because there was

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moments as well, like where you're presented with a puzzle

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and knowing how much to try and figure

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this out. When you got the bangles,

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it was like, well, should we try it now?

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What could these mean? What could the circles mean?

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Is it fully solvable? Do they match the dresses?

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And it's always interesting to know,

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to get used to when someone's

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expecting you to make a fairly large logical

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jump or whether you'll come back and be like,

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oh, this is fairly obvious. It's always an interesting

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balance to hit. And because by the time

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you had the answer to this, to the bangles puzzle,

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you came back like, great, here we go. Bangles

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in, shoulder, hip, hip, hem, you

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know, this would be great. It

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is interesting in that way, because this is, it's

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a single room with most things available

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to you right from the start. So

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it can make it difficult in that way to

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have things, they're not physically

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gated, so to have them mentally gated, and

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it can be challenging

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to get that balance. Yeah,

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I feel like that's part of, I mean, it felt

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almost like a

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real escape room in that way, where you kind

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of have to be discerning about what

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you can use or cannot use yet.

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And like, how much of your time do you

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spend investigating one thing or

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another? Were there any

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moments of solving that you

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felt good about yourself?

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You went, Yeah, I got that. I get

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what's going on here. I

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really like the dress and hanger

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puzzle. I don't think I figured

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it out quickly enough to feel that

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good about it. But that's why I felt

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about the accessories where once I got

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it, it felt like, Oh, I can't

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believe I didn't get that earlier. But

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at least I got it out. Yeah,

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that was good when you went to the accessories cabinet,

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went, Wait, are there accessories for

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your ears and things? Yeah,

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we were we were a bit stuck there for a bit. But

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yeah, again, it was the it's the hardest part

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of the beginning when it's just all open. Nothing

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has been ticked off yet. It's

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good at least that you figured there were six

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mannequins and a six letter combination lock. So at

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least you had a connection form. There was a

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line between those two things. But yeah, at that

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point, it was still so open. There

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could have been more pieces to it. It

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could have been completely unsolved. And

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it's interesting with these because you did what happens

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in a few of these rooms, like 50 minutes

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in, you had solved nothing.

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And then an hour and 10 minutes in,

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you'd solve everything because you'd spent so long.

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You had everything you're supposed to. You'd collected

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all the information and all the connections. And

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then it was suddenly just, Oh,

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and now I found all the puzzle. Like I've and it just kind

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of one went into the next

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into the next into the next. And

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I think that that does happen sometimes in these rooms. Do

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you know, Danny, when you're designing them, whether or not that's

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going to happen?