Take That, Walls!

If I’m in a dangerous situation that requires solving puzzles to escape, I have a 67% chance.  That’s not bad  

Seems like a reasonably rare set of circumstances though, don't you think?  

Admittedly so, but in the event that it comes up, I'm golden two times out of three.  Woohoo!

So, if you're not aware, the concept of Escape Rooms have become quite popular in the last 10 years.  The idea is you get locked in a room with a back story, and a range of puzzles to solve within a set time limit.  If you solve the puzzles, you unlock the door to escape and you feel joy.  If you don't solve the puzzles, the room operator comes and lets you out, and you feel shame.  In a way, it's akin to being in a voluntary prison where no matter what, you get to leave in an hour.  

It's fun!  

So anyway, not long ago, a group of friends and I decided to take on this challenge in a not so overly nearby location which features a small handful of these rooms.  We picked one that seemed to have an interesting story about kidnapped people and a psycho coming home in an hour.  As it turns out, that room has historically been the most difficult one to solve in that particular location, and we did not manage to escape.  That having been said, our lack of escaping was not due to not being able to solve the puzzles, it was due to abundant sheer stupidity.  

Jeremy forgot how to tell time.

It was something of that nature, yes...but that's hardly important.  

So, with that miserable failure stuck in our respective craws, the same group made plans to return to that location and do battle with the remaining two rooms.  You know...for vindication and stuff.  Sweet revenge was ours, as we escaped both rooms with plenty of time to spare.  Because we're brilliant and stuff.  There was even another clock involved, so...learning!  

Therefore, based on science and data, I feel comfortable knowing that if I'm ever stuck in a crazy life-threatening situation where the only means of escape is sticking magnets to a wall or reading Morse Code off of a space suit or finding the false bottom of a desk drawer, I'm all set.  Most of the time, anyway.