Argus Leader: Escape 605 Opening

Argus Leader caught up in early December to talk about our January opening.

Teams of two to 10 people have to crack the code in 60 minutes or less to unlock the room.

“It is an adrenaline-rushed 60 minutes of everyone working together to decipher all the clues, and it takes a group effort to get to the end result,” Stockberger said, describing the experience as the game of Clue meets the reality show The Amazing Race meets “the most epic scavenger hunt of your lives.”

While escape rooms are growing in popularity nationwide, the most engaged customers have been businesses using the exercise for team building, she said. Escape 605 will offer companies the chance to rent out the rooms in three-hour periods.

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