Such an impact, in fact, that on the drive back home from the venue Hall and her friends made the decision to launch their own. That very first escape room had a huge impact on her. We played it and we’re totally blown away, you know?”
“We’d just been doing one in Seattle and we heard about this thing called ‘escape rooms’, it was brand new. From there, Hall’s passion for puzzles spiraled into bigger, “more intensive” team-based puzzles. The event was a turning point for Hall, who found that this “was sort of the first time I did think of myself as a puzzle person, though in truth I’d been solving puzzles for years”. That perception changed when she moved to Portland in 2010 and was introduced to a “puzzle pint” event where “you show up to just drink a beer and solve puzzles”. That was the thing I really liked about it, but I never really saw myself as a puzzle person.” The thing that I thought was really interesting about those was that they’re time-based, right? It’s a community coming together to solve this game, but the narrative is interactive and responsive to the audience. Hitting fast-forward, she explains that “in college, I got super into alternate reality games which introduced me to the puzzle genre. Sitting down to chat with NME, she explained that she’s always been “a puzzle and mystery lover” – all the way back to her passion for Nancy Drew at a young age.
On the topic of escape rooms – the mysterious venues that have popped up seemingly everywhere over the last few years – there are few as informed as Laura E.
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