Can you escape before time runs out?
By Diego Flammini
Staff Writer
Farms.com
A current trend for teambuilding or group activities is trying to solve escape rooms.
Groups are locked in a themed room and must solve a series of puzzles to escape before a given time limit expires.
Themes for these rooms vary from preventing bank heists and escaping a stuck elevator to evading a prison execution.
As it turns out, agriculture is also represented in some escape room games.
So, here are nine escape room games related to ag.
1) Sheriff’s Jail
This game at Downs On The Farm in Amherst, Ohio. is located inside a barn from the 1800s.
Your group has been imprisoned for stealing cows and bootlegging moonshine. The sheriff has stepped out to a local tavern, giving you the perfect opportunity to escape the prison.
2) The Great Cellar Escape
This escape room at Boreal Winery in Warren, Ont. takes place inside a real wine cellar.
For this game, you are the winemaker(s) in the cellar collecting late-night data when the door suddenly closes behind you. You’re now stuck in an above-ground concrete cave with no mobile reception.
3) AgXscape
This ag-related room is located at the Hilmar Cheese Company’s visitor center in Hilmar, Calif. and is dairy themed.
In this room, your group is managing Bob’s dairy farm when you receive a call from a neighbor that the herd has contracted a virus and require vaccines. You’ve got 30 minutes to solve dairy-related puzzles to unlock the vaccines.
4) Escape Maze
In Peterborough, Ont., escape room lovers will find Escape Maze. While the four rooms themselves aren’t ag themed, they are located inside the barn on a family farm.
The games include trying to enter a poker game and solving the mystery of what was really inside a coffin.
5) Escape Maize
If you’re in Staffordshire, England, you can try your luck at National Forest Adventure Farm’s escape maize maze.
The farmers have combined the traditional idea of a corn maze with the fun of an escape room to create an experience with a James Bond theme.
Agent Academy challenges groups to navigate 10 acres of corn, paths, bridges and towers to solve 10 physical and mental obstacles.
6) Capone’s Case
While visiting Lake Williamson in Carlinville, Ill., you can solve an escape room in a dairy barn.
In (Al) Capone’s Case, you are part of a team of Treasury Agents searching the barn at Lake Williamson for a ledger that documents Capone’s tax evasion. You have one hour before Capone and his body guards return.
7) Suspicious Farmhouse
Should you find yourself in Eindhoven, Netherlands, an escape room challenges you to find a missing farmer named John.
The farmhouse contains traced of blood and evidence of violence. Your team has 60 minutes to unlock secrets of the farm to solve John’s disappearance.
8) Jailhouse Justice
An escape room at Escape Hunt Dallas challenges you to escape a cruel punishment.
Your ranch has been accused of cattle rustling and you are set to be hanged. You’ve got 60 minutes to escape the prison and clear your name.
9) Crazy Farmer
In Wageningen, Netherlands, you are tasked with preventing a harmful resource from being spread.
The story of the Crazy Farmer escape room is that a professor who lived on a farm developed a resource that could end world hunger. But that resource proved to be dangerous to humans.
The professor was exiled from the community for his invention but now wants to take revenge on all who he felt wronged him. You have 60 minutes to find the professor’s invention before he returns to the farm.
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