Playground

The Playground is a joy, but it’s not all fun and games! With two experienced players, this was a huge challenge, but we made it! Your digital report card on the wall does an exceptional job of letting you know your progress; honestly, it might be the best way I’ve ever seen a room give feedback about where you’re at, simple though it may be. The puzzles themselves ask you to engage in a variety of novel physical interactions while making some larger connections with objects in your environment. You feel like a kid for lots of the interesting ways you have to look at the world. The Escape Game is likely the best escape room franchise, and this room is a shining example.

😀This game was fun. Defiantly need more than 2 people with the amount of puzzles. Lots of puzzles I haven’t done before.

One of our all time favorite rooms, but it was unfortunately taken out by a tornado.

We played with another group and it made the experience super weird. The only thing I don’t like about The escape game is the non private rooms. There’s A LOT to go through here so it’s important to play with >5 ppl. I think I enjoyed the other rooms better.

We had so much fun at The Escape Game in Austin that we planned a trip to do most of the rooms at The Escape Game in Dallas, and I'm very happy we did because one of their rooms is now number three on my all time favorite rooms. This trip, I was with my brother Billy (who I do most rooms with) and four other family members. The Escape Game Dallas is in an awesome mall called Grapevine Mills Mall. This mall has a lot of fun things for families to do. I have two young sons, and we went back the next day for them to enjoy the mall. The mall has a Rain Forest Cafe, a gigantic arcade, bowling ally, indoor playgrounds, Peppa Pig store, Lego store, cars for the kids to drive around the mall, a train, and more. I have been to a few The Escape Game locations, and one design feature of all their rooms stands out to me. They put their puzzles right out in the open as decorations. The good thing about that is that it adds to the immersiveness of the room, and The Escape Game is very good at immersion. The puzzles and clues fit very well with the story line. When you pull a puzzle out of a drawer or box, they sometimes feel forced into the storyline of a room. The downside of all the puzzles being visible in the beginning is that it makes the room nonlinear, and it's very difficult to know where to start. That's fine if you are with a medium to large team, but it's quite difficult to do nonlinear rooms with a two or three person team. The good thing is that The Escape Game knows their target audience, and their recommended group sizes reflect this reality. At this locations, we did three rooms: Playground, The Heist, and Prison Break. I'm amazed that all of them are so good. At almost escape rooms, there's a weak room, but not at The Escape Game. Yes, some are better than others, but they're all good. Playground is number three on my list of the best rooms I've ever played, and it is the most unique room I've ever done. Everything about this room is impressive. You'll be an elementary school student racing to get to recess. Yes, it's as fun as it sounds. It's helpful to have a group of four or more for this room. It would be hard to do this room with three or fewer players. You'll need to divide and conquer for this room. Get through the first two areas quickly because the third area will take some time. If you get a chance, do this room. We completed the room in 50 minutes.