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A science-themed escape room gives the brain a workout

Escape rooms are a popular group activity, in which a team of players is enclosed in a room and must solve puzzles to either escape the room or accomplish a goal within a certain amount of time. LabEscape, created by a bona fide physicist and a crew of physics students, requires no previous scientific knowledge to play. But it does take a willingness to think creatively and work together as a team. LabEscape is a science-themed escape room where people can test their wits at the Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana.

The members of this reportage had the opportunity to try out a science escape room in which the challenge was to decode the fictional Professor Schrödenberg’s password to submit her grant proposal. The tasks necessary to break the code had the small group, consisting of adults and children, scientists and science rookies, running from one side of the room to the other, fiddling with lasers, polarized glasses, thermal imaging cameras and more. Many puzzles required discovering the specific action necessary to reveal a cleverly hidden message.

According to Kwiat, a creator of escape rooms, what people need to do well the escape rooms is curiosity and to know that science can be fun.

Link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/science-themed-escape-room-gives-brain-workout

Date: APRIL 29, 2019

Scientific scope: neuroscience

Commentary:

Personally, I've done many escape rooms with my friends because they are a very funny and entertaining thing that makes you feel the situation that you really are in a room in which you cant get out of and you have to find the clues to get out as quickly as possible. It is as if you were inside a scene from a mistery movie and you were the protagonist. It's the type of activities that increase creativity because everything can be possible inside the room. I recommend it for all ages.