Norm Frampton, our Thursday Doors Captain, leads us to churches, museums, and historic places of interest.
I’m, however, currently in the land of summer resorts where vying for family attendance and money is king.
While walking with friends at Broadway at the Beach this week, we saw these handsome doors and couldn’t resist taking a photo. In all honestly, though, I had to look up the definition of Escape Games because I didn’t have a clue.
“Escape rooms are the newest in live, interactive entertainment. βLockedβ in a room with other participants, you will work together as a group to find clues, solve a series of puzzles, and ultimately escape before your time runs out.”
According to their website, forΒ $36 per person, you can attempt an escape from The Legend of Atlantis, a Dark Winters Night, or The Haunting of Hyde House.
I think I’ll just admire their doors, and buy more material. π
Linked to Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors – February 27, 2020.
I like those doors. There used to be an Escape Room near us. I never did it but I know a few friends who did it and they escaped to tell the tale.
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Since I probably couldn’t safely maneuver a corn maze even in my younger days, you might not ever hear from me again if I entered those doors. π
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lol – if you and I did an escape room together we’d have to bring our quilting because we’d never get out! My oldest daughter is a fan and claims she has a blast every time she’s done one of these. I’m not a “deductive reasoner” (you have to spell everything out to me. Everything.) so you’d eventually find my skeleton behind those beautiful doors! π
Around here, these were a fad a few years back. Now that building is redesigned for “axe throwing” – with, believe it or not – BEER available! Let them say “ok, boomer!” all they want – not a fan of drunkenly slashing my head open! (or cleaning up after someone else’s “oops! the darn thing slipped right outta my hand!”
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I’m just glad I didn’t have a mouthful of coffee when I read this because I’m still laughing. Yes, we’d have a wonderful visit, but we’d expire in there together. π We have driven by an axe throwing place. Maybe, I need to go back and check out their doors. I’m with you, I’m way past the age where it makes any kind of sense to me. But, I do thank you for this wonderful comment because it is a great way to start my Thursday if I can stop laughing thinking about you and I aging in place there. π
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I’m with you! I’d rather buy a dinner/mystery with a drink to solve. The colors and design are pretty though.
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I loved the way the door was painted and the hardware, but I’m with you with regard to spending money. π
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Pretty door, but the idea of being trapped in the room makes this writer feel nothing but panic. However, my daughter, who is unflappable and loves games, said it was a lot of fun. Let’s just say she didn’t get her personality from me. π
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I understand. Honestly, a corn maze would freak me out. π
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Me, too!!!!
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Great doors, Judy. There’s an escape room nearby. They advertise that it’s a great team-building exercise. Those are probably the thing I miss the least about work – team-building exercises.
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You and me both. I miss it about as much as I do the conference calls and the full schedule of meetings. π
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As always, I love your post and I love the comments! I had no idea either what “Escape Games” meant until you explained, and then I realized there is such a thing here. I have not had the tiniest temptation to try it out. Nice doors, but from the outside!
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That’s right – good doors from the ‘outside’ for sure. π
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Nice doors! Some companies use Escape Rooms for team building exercises. Can you imagine what happens when there are several type A personalities?? I wonder if there is a quick escape option!
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I can imagine it, and I’m having quite a chuckle right now. Thank you for that. π
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I’m with you on this idea of this not being entertainment. I don’t want to be in an Escape Room. It too closely reminds me of being in the hospital when those ER doors swing shut behind you and all you want to do is get out of there, but you can’t. No fun with that.
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That’s a great example for sure. π
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Some days I just need an escape from my rooms here at home! Imagine having to pay to be locked up!!!
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Can you imagine a family of five would pay $180 to be locked up. Just the thought of paying that makes me feel like the dinosaur I am. π
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I echo Laurie’s comment. I’m sure I’d feel claustrophobic!
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Lovely doors!
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I am fascinated by doors and these are intriguing. Great shots of them too!
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Sounds too much like being dragged into a Hobby Lobby for “just a few minutes.”
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Oh my goodness, thank you so much for a gigantic laugh out loud moment. π
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Good grief! Pay to be locked in a room, possibly with total strangers, and ‘hope’ that between you someone discovers the way out. Nope, No thanks. I know you wouldn’t be left in there permanently….or would you. π³π€
In my neck of the woods we have an axe throwing place, a few doors down from a craft brewery. Who plans these things?!
I’m still laughing at Joyce`s comments.
I do love those doors!!
πΎGinger πΎ
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I’ve chuckled on and off all day thinking about Joyce’s comment. π I’m with you – who thinks these things up. Beer plus axe throwing is not a good thing in my book, but, hey, I’m pretty boring.
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Love the doors but no interest in escape rooms. It certainly seems to be a generational thing though, I know a lot of young people really love these kinds of outings. It’s just not my idea of being entertained π
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Amen!
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I agree about the generational thing, Norm. My guys have been to several escape rooms. I wonder why. Just not my thing.
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My husband loves escape rooms! π Great pictures.
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Glad he loves them for all of us who don’t. π
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I like the doors. Wouldn’t pay to enter. Haven’t been to Broadway at the Beach in many years. Glad you’re having such fun exploring the area.
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It seems to be changing up quite a bit, but it’s a great place to walk around with some interesting shops and restaurants.
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Those escape rooms remind me of those awful team building exercises I used to have to do every once in a while at work. Gawd, how much I hated them! I’m an introvert and just the idea of working with a large group (many of them know-it-alls) to come up with “the best” solution was enough to run away screaming… or, better yet, call in sick that day. I think you made the right decision not to drop $36 for the “privilege” of finding yourself on the other side of those (lovely, by the way) doors.
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I dreaded going to those things worse than having a root canal so I can guarantee you that I’d be the last human on earth to pay even a $1 for going through those handsome doors. π
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You have NO idea how unattractive this idea is to me. Being in a locked room is bad. Being in a locked room and having to solve a puzzle? Even worse. But those are really NICE doors.
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I’m with you all the way.
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Those doors are quite nice! But an Escape Room is not my cup of tea. Iβd rather go out to dinner and chat with the same people over a bottle of wine.
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Those doors are pretty. But these Escape Rooms are not for me… i can feel that I wonβt be able to go out of it too.
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I had heard of the escape games but had know idea that they were so costly…I’ll definitely not be playing. π
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I’m with you. Escape rooms aren’t really my thing. I’d rather buy yarn or cake, or both!
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I’ll go with you to the yarn store to see what you would choose, if then we can go have cake and a really good coffee. π
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I do like your thinking! Great plan. π
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I have had so much fun reading the comments, not that the doors aren’t nice. You know I love doors.
I would take the $36 for fabric, too.
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Think of all the beautiful leaves you could make. π
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We did an escape game last Christmas with the family – everybody had a lot of fun!
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That’s great, and your family always has a lot of fun together. π
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I’m with you in admiring, not participating, no matter the price. I like to read mysteries, but this doesn’t appeal to me. I know some businesses use this sort of thing to help team-building. Glad I was never at any of them. π
janet
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