The Mona Lisa had gone missing...
and we had to find it.
Back in Kfar Blum, me, mum, dad, and my brother went to an Escape Room in another kibbutz near us.
An Escape Room is basically a game where you're trapped in a room, and you have to crack codes and solve riddles using clues to escape. A man told us the rules, and what we were going to be doing. We were private investigators who were sent to retrieve the stolen Mona Lisa, return it to the museum, and arrest the thief - Carmen Amzalez - before the museum opened to the public.
The first interactive escape room opened in Japan in 2007, and now there are over 1,850 in the US, 350 in the UK, and 408 in Canada. There are lots of different themes like: Bank Robberies and prison breaks, Crime investigations and Zombie apocalypses, and some you just need to escape the room.
Our time limit was an hour and we just reached it. It was so confusing; I don't even remember half of the things we did. There were all sorts of locks and hidden clues and riddles. There was artwork all over the walls like you would see in a museum, and random things that you would not see in a museum.
A bucket of different keys, a sandcastle, giant red buttons, etc. You had to really think outside of the box but despite the struggles, we found the Mona Lisa and managed to finish in precisely
59 minutes - a minute before our timer went off. We had so much fun and Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud.
A bucket of different keys, a sandcastle, giant red buttons, etc. You had to really think outside of the box but despite the struggles, we found the Mona Lisa and managed to finish in precisely
59 minutes - a minute before our timer went off. We had so much fun and Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud.
WOW Kaya! What an awesome holiday you and Shai are having (and Mum and Dad). This interactive activity sounds like a lot of fun and possibly a bit stressful if you didn't do the activity in time! What happens if you don't 'escape' in the 60 minutes?
ReplyDeleteI can really empathise with thinking outside the box as we did an activity in our staff meeting yesterday and I was completely lost. Fortunately koka Ngaire was in my group and had way more ideas for solving the puzzles than me.
Thank you so much for sharing what you have been doing - it is very interesting for the rest of us! Koka Nolian
Hi Koka Nolian,
DeleteYou only get to escape the room once you have found the Mona Lisa and finished; our grandpa did it a while ago and was stuck in there for nearly two hours! It can get a bit crazy but a fun kind of crazy. We've also heard that there is another one with The Simpsons theme, so I've been dropping not-so-subtle hints here and there.