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How Many Rooms are Escape Rooms

How Many Rooms are Escape Rooms? We get this question quite often! In our opinion, staying in one room doesn’t sound too exciting and doesn’t allow for all of the twists and turns that our games tend to take. Because of this, all of our experiences are always larger than just one room!

How Many Rooms are Escape Rooms​
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Traditional Escape Rooms

Escape rooms have certainly evolved from the original games that began in the early 2010’s. Escape rooms started as online, virtual point and click games where players were trapped in an environment, such as an office or bathroom, and had to use clues around the room to escape. This is very similar to how physical escape rooms started. 

Gradually, escape rooms developed and, while you can still find these early types of the experience around, most have adapted into larger, more detailed content. Nowadays, escape rooms tend to have you solving a mission, which takes you through multiple rooms in order to complete the story. This has allowed for more immersive storylines, more technologically advanced materials, and more complicated puzzles. 

One Room vs. Multiple Rooms

While we’re certainly not trying to bash one-room experiences, as a company, we prefer to create multi-room experiences for multiple reasons. Here are some of the reasons why we prefer to build larger than just one room:

1. Creating a Full, Immersive Story

With escape rooms that are only one-room, it can be hard to create a detailed story that immerses players in their objective. When you have everything in front of you in one room, there’s no room for awe as you unlock a completely new zone. 

Most of our games feature detailed storylines, where you unlock more of the story the farther you get into the game. This is more difficult to accomplish within a one room format, as there isn’t anywhere to progress towards. In addition, the set simply feels fuller when there are more rooms to it. 

It’s one thing to claim players are in one isolated room of a house and to imagine the rest of the house exists; it’s an entirely other thing to gain access to the rest of the house in order to uncover more clues.

2. Keeping Players' Attention

In escape rooms that use a one-room format, there can be issues of keeping people’s attention, as momentum dies a little quicker when you stick to just one small area. Players feel satisfaction when they manage to unlock a door that leads to another zone of the game, which keeps them moving forward. When you have already experienced the full set within one room, it’s less satisfying to simply open a box that gives you a piece for another puzzle within the same room.

3. Fighting Claustophobia

When players enter a one-room game and see no other door to go through except the one they just entered, it can cause anxiety or claustrophobia in some players. Escape rooms are constantly battling fears of being trapped in a room with no escape, and having access to only one room throughout the whole experience does not help with that.

However, when players immediately have access to more than one room upon entering the game, or see doors that suggest that there are more puzzles to work through, it can help them feel less nervous about being trapped in one space.

4. An Abundance of Puzzles

One big difference between one-room and multi-room escape rooms can be the ease of solving puzzles. When you are only playing within one room, players are typically going to have access to a lot of pieces of puzzles and locks to open. This can cause confusion on where to start, what puzzle pieces go with which locks, and what elements are not part of the puzzles at all. 

Whereas, with a multi-room escape room, players typically start with a limited amount of puzzle pieces and locks, and gradually unlock more as the game progresses. This can make it easier to sort through all of the different elements within the game.

Trap Door Escape Room

“We take pride in our set designs,” said Mike Parrotta, Gamemaster. “You can’t stop the zombie apocalypse in one room. We can’t fully immerse you in just one room.” At Trap Door Escape Room, all of our experiences feature more than one room, and typically cover a large amount of space. While all of our games take place across different sized spaces, players will always have plenty of space to travel and explore.

Poconos, PA Location
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Pictured: The Greatest Freakshow, an expansive, multi-room experience

Trap Door Escape Room’s Poconos location, in Bartonsville, PA, hosts a wide range of the country’s largest escape rooms. 

 

We're All Mad Here

For example, our newest addition to the Poconos location, We’re All Mad Here, is a two hour, 4,000 square foot, multi-room escape experience! This is ten times the size of the average escape room experience, but Trap Door is far from average.

F5

Also of note at this location, is F5 Tornado. In F5 Tornado Escape, you’ll have to solve your way to safety before a tornado strikes. It has more than 1,000 square feet of crawling, pushing, pulling, climbing, and problem solving across the Todd’s farm, and makes you feel fully immersed in this stormy adventure. Additionally, this game won Best Immersive Experience in the world in 2021!

Cure Z

Cure Z, one of the largest games on the east coast, has you trying to find your way through a post-apocalyptic zombie infested city and into a huge laboratory where you’ll have to re-create the cure for the zombie virus. With this game, you’ll travel through 10 rooms that add up to approximately 3,000 square feet. Each room features puzzles that take on a life of their own, adding to the adventure of the experience. You’ll feel like you’re right in the middle of a zombie movie while playing this game. 

Morristown, NJ Location

Our Escape Room in Morristown NJ is pure magic! Super Powered Oddities to Witchcraft, it all combines for a conjuring of spectacle unlike anything you have ever seen. 

The Greatest Freakshow

The Greatest Freakshow stars players as the newest oddities of the circus. However, when suspicious activity starts taking place, it’s up to you to figure out what’s going on and put an end to it. You’ll have to search the trailers of the different sideshow acts in an effort to find out how to stop this evilness. 

Witch Hunt

Travel back in time with Witch Hunt. As constables to the local sheriff, it’s up to you to determine if a woman accused of witchcraft is guilty or innocent. You’ll have to search her home to see if you can find evidence to try and save the town.

Red Bank, NJ Location

As for our Red Bank, NJ location, it is heading towards a massive redesign with larger, more immersive experiences.  

Currently, Red Bank is featuring our Mount Everest themed escape room, Everest. After a climate research team goes missing, it’s up to you to climb Mt. Everest after them to figure out what happened. Solve puzzles, scale a mountain, and do your best to survive this chilly adventure. Also of note, Everest is a multi-level escape room that is a bronze winner for Best In-Person Escape Room!

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Poconos Escape Room Asylum

Travel down the rabbit hole and experience a brand new world that just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser in our asylum escape room.

$60 Per Player

You have 120 minutes to escape the theme at $60 per person plus tax. This is the largest escape room in the country, spanning upwards of over 4,000 square feet of playing space each! Large Private Groups are welcome, as these experiences allow player dispersement with ease. All bookings for this asylum escape room are private.

Witch Escape Room

You are Constables for The Sheriff of Salem and are tasked with finding evidence of Witchcraft before the town hanging.

$39.99 Per Player

You have 60 minutes to escape, at $39.99 per person plus tax. At a minimum of 1,000 square feet of playing space, this theme is sure to provide a thrilling adventure. Witch Hunt is three times larger than the average escape room experience. Most importantly, however, all bookings are private.

Red Bank Mount Everest Escape Room, NJ Escape Rooms

Journey to the Top of the World as a Search and Rescue team on a mission to find a Missing Research Team.

$39.99 Per Player

You have 60 minutes to escape this theme at $39.99 per person, plus tax. At a minimum of 1,000 square feet of playing space, this theme is sure to provide a thrilling adventure. Everest is three times larger than the average escape room experience. All bookings are private.

Trap Door Escape Company

Trap Door Escape Room has 4 locations: 3180 Route 611 in Bartonsville, PA in the Poconos; 60 White St. in Red Bank, NJ; 34A Speedwell Ave. in Morristown, NJ: and 77 Wind Creek Blvd in Bethlehem, PA. The Red Bank location was the first of the 4 locations, opening in the fall of 2015. Morristown followed in the summer of 2017, and Bartonsville opened during the holiday season of 2018. Wind Creek is currently undergoing construction and will be opening in September 2022.

History

The idea came to Tone Purzycki back in 2011 after he wrote a screenplay that developed into a live-streaming game. The game revolved around an actor trapped in a situation and the audience had to solve puzzles to figure out where he was trapped. The “Find Me Event” had more than 1,000 people playing over the course of several hours. After the success of several other streaming events, the idea of an escape room was born.

Location

Each location has different rooms from which to choose. Our Morristown location is home to Day of the DeadWitch Huntand The Greatest Freakshow. In Bartonsville, you’ll find Cure ZF5 Tornado EscapeFear the BogeymanMad Hatter’s Tea PartyWe’re All Mad Here, and Prisoner Z. In Red Bank we currently have Everest – our first 2 story escape room. Ripper of London is also available at this location. Our pirate themed games will soon be open at Wind Creek.

Trap Door Escape Room also offers team buildingstreaming events, and birthday parties. For more information on any of our games, prices, and locations, explore our website or call 570-234-3366