WHAT IS AN ESCAPE ROOM?
An Escape Room is the perfect way for families and friends to exercise teamwork, cooperation and build lasting memories in a low stakes game in a themed environment. Unlike arcades, this is not a single player game. Unlike anything else in Kapolei, you aren’t just a spectator or just engaged in passive conversation. You need to work as a team to achieve a common goal; ESCAPE THE GAME! This is the perfect way to build teams and families outside of the workplace, the sports field or home.
You’ll have an hour to escape a themed room. Your gamemaster provides your team with rules of the games and tips. Once in the room, you'll need to find clues, hints and patterns to advance in the game. Some situations require your team to multi task to save time, while other situations require your team to focus on a single problem set together. Either way, your team needs to cooperate and remain organized to beat the game! Each team member will have their team to shine. Which role will you play?
What kind of Teammate are you?
We have seen thousands of Players escape or attempt to escape our rooms. We observed that there are 6 personality types that all teams need to successfully escape our rooms. Which personality fits your friends or family?
- Drivers; focused, outcome-oriented, communicative, opinionated. Drivers are the leaders, whether self appointed, appointed by the group or just naturally lead. They typically will make decisions for the team. Without a driver, teams end up working as individuals and puzzles never get completed OR teams simply quit when things don’t work out.
- Organizers: process-oriented, detailed, supportive, team-focused. Typically these are the first ones to pick up the pen and paper and take notes, or they keep detailed inventory of your clues while keeping track of your solved work to prevent redundancy. Without organizers, teams try to solve puzzles that have already been solved or use ideass that have already been already validated as incorrect.
-Visionaries: creative, big picture, imaginative, future-focused; Visionaries are the players who are watching the clock and thinking about the next task, rather than simply focusing on the task in front of them. While the team is focused on solving a single puzzle, visionaries usually are already moving to the next task to keep the team on ahead! Without visionaries, teams get stuck on a single puzzle run out of time to escape.
-Diplomats: relationship-oriented, harmonious, influential, bridge-builders; Inevitably there will be disagreements while solving puzzles; the Diplomat knows how to politely bring opposing ideas together to create a common solution. Without a diplomat teams usually get stuck on only part of a solution or argue about which solution is correct instead of combining ideas.
-Experts: knowledgeable, informed, problem solver. This is the one who can intuitively look at a puzzle and have a general idea of how to solve it. However experts get bogged down on a single problem and get stuck on a single solution. In another words, they might get the wrong answer and spend most of their team defending the wrong answer. Experts also tend not to share information. However, without the Expert, the team will not know where to start with solving a puzzle.
-Wild Cards; fresh thinkers, challenging, information seekers, creative. This is the person outside of the group dynamics that come up with fresh, non-traditional approaches to problems that might surprise the team. Sometimes teams get stuck on group think. They might reinforce each other’s wrong ideas for fear of not disrupting the team or looking stupid. The wild card doesn’t care. They will have another opinion to force the group to think about an alternative solution. This also means they tend to have a lot of ridiculous ideas.