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Turning an in-real-life game into an online escape room

Changing a game from in-real-life play to online play is a lot of work. It takes us over a month with an entire team to effectively change the game! If we kept the game as is and put it online, it wouldn’t be very fun for players; certain puzzles wouldn’t translate well online, and some puzzles would be immensely difficult to solve. Learn about our process of turning The TriWizard Trials into an online game!

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Liz’s Recommendations For Online Escape Rooms

My name’s Liz, I’m a seasoned Shift Lead/Game Master that has been hosting both real life and online experiences for almost 2 years now, and I’ve been nominated by customers for the “Game Master of The Year” award due to my online experiences as a host. The games I’ve hosted have also been included in international escape room review websites, for hosting games such as The Cure For The Common Zombie and Neverland: Heist On The High Seas. I’ll be your Online Escape Room expert today, providing you with all the information you could ever need for understanding and booking an online escape room with us.

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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

Needless to say, Valentine’s Day is looking pretty different this year. Because you’re not able to take your loved one out on a traditional Valentine’s Day date, you may be trying to think of good gift ideas instead. It can be challenging to think of fun gifts, especially when you may have been isolating together! So, to help you out, we’ve rounded up some of our Valentine’s Day gifts ideas for your life partner, who would probably love something fun to do!

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Kingston in the Fall

While it’s true that autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go, that doesn’t mean we have to say “Sayonara” to fun now that a new (albeit a bit chiller!) season is upon us. 

It doesn’t matter whether you’re into live music, art, or the simplistic splendour of great outdoors, there is no shortage of things to see, do, taste and enjoy as we embrace the season of cosy sweaters, golden colours, and of course, the ubiquitous pumpkin spice latte. 

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We’re Opening Up Another Company!

The makers of Improbable Escapes are opening a second escape room facility with a full service board game lounge in the west end of Kingston. The facility will open in Fall 2019. This facility will be completely family friendly, and based on nostalgic stories and fairytales. The lounge will be themed around Alice In Wonderland, and our first escape room game will be based on the Lost Boys (Peter Pan).

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A Valentine’s Day To Remember

It seems that love is definitely in the air this Valentine’s Day season. From all of us at Improbable Escapes we wish you happy and safe outings filled with warm fuzzies, cute sentiments, electronic safes, peculiar shaped keys, locked doors, and… wait, what?

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We Won An Award!

Improbable Escapes was awarded the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce’s 2018 Tourism and Hospitality Award!

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An Improbable Halloween Movie Binge

October is the month of spooks and scares. Sometimes the best way to get the most out of things is having the right mindset. What better way to get pumped up than watching movies? The answer is food, but we’re going to talk about movies. Since it’s October it is only fitting that we talk about Halloween movies.

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