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Christmas-Themed Escape Rooms You Should Play in 2024

Christmas-Themed Escape Rooms You Should Play in 2024

Discover the magic of Christmas escape rooms and Holiday escape rooms! This holiday season, why not trade your usual traditions for something a bit more adventurous? Christmas escape rooms are the perfect blend of festive fun and challenging puzzles, creating...

We’re Featured in Apartment Guide / Red Fin

We’re Featured in Apartment Guide / Red Fin

If you’ve only got one day to spend in Huntington Beach and want to make the most of it, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re visiting for a short getaway, thinking about renting an apartment in Huntington Beach, CA, renting a house, or even exploring the...

Top 5 Reasons to Play an Escape Room This Summer

Top 5 Reasons to Play an Escape Room This Summer

Summer is the perfect time to explore new activities and create lasting memories with friends and family. One exciting and unique option to consider is playing an escape room. If you haven’t tried it yet, here are the top five reasons why an escape room should be on...

5 Best Reasons Why Escape Rooms Are Great Holiday Activities

5 Best Reasons Why Escape Rooms Are Great Holiday Activities

If you're looking for a fun and exciting way to spend time with friends and family during the holiday season, consider escape rooms! There are many holiday activities you can do, but escape rooms are a unique and immersive form of entertainment that is sure to be a...

Best Ways to Celebrate Your Graduation – Grad Celebration Season!

Best Ways to Celebrate Your Graduation – Grad Celebration Season!

Graduation season is upon us! School is out! It's grad celebration period! Time to celebrate your graduation in style, whether it be a party, activity, or something else entirely. Check out our list of 5 of the best ways/ideas you can celebrate your graduation in...

Best Team Building Activities in Orange County

Best Team Building Activities in Orange County

Team building is a great way to improve company culture. When your organization, company, or even immediate team engages in team building, you can improve morale, retention, communication, creative thinking, and learn other great skills. There are a lot of team...

Best Immersive Escape Rooms in Orange County 2022

Best Immersive Escape Rooms in Orange County 2022

Escape rooms are one of the hottest trends in entertainment, and with good reason: they offer a unique, immersive experience unlike anything else. They also happen to be a great way to build teamwork and communication skills, which is why more and more companies are...

Scary Escape Rooms in Orange County

Scary Escape Rooms in Orange County

We get asked a LOT about scary escape rooms from our customers. At UNLOCKED: Escape Room, all of our themes are family-friendly with no horror elements, but we do enjoy a good scary escape room once in a while. If you are looking for non-scary games, you can book one...

Fun Video Games for Escape Room Enthusiasts

Fun Video Games for Escape Room Enthusiasts

Are you a big fan of escape rooms but can't go out to play one in-person? Are you also a gamer? So are we, which explains why we have a video game-themed escape room at our location! But if you aren't able to make it out to an in-person game, check out some of our...

Corporate Teambuilding: 5 Team Skills Escape Rooms Can Improve

Corporate Teambuilding: 5 Team Skills Escape Rooms Can Improve

Escape rooms are definitely a fun activity to do with your friends and family, but did you know that escape rooms also promote teambuilding and skill development that's great for corporate events? Check out this list of 5 skills that escape room activities can help...

5 Things to Consider Before Playing a Virtual Escape Room

5 Things to Consider Before Playing a Virtual Escape Room

With the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual escape rooms have been on the rise as another form of escape room entertainment to scratch the itch of enthusiasts everywhere. However, though virtual escape rooms are popping up everywhere and try to simulate the real experience,...

Announcement: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Announcement: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

UNLOCKED: Escape Room is actively monitoring the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. The health and safety of our players and staff are our number one priority. What is COVID-19? The COVID-19 is a novel virus in the class of coronaviruses that is currently being...

Happy April Fools!

Happy April Fools!

Sorry about that but we will never put our players in real danger! Come by and play our very safe and family friendly game by booking at unlockedoc.com/booking !

New to Escape Rooms? Here’s What You Need To Know!

New to Escape Rooms? Here’s What You Need To Know!

So, what is an escape room, and how does one play? It’s basically a game where you ditch the computer and return to reality, sort of. A bunch of people, sometimes friends, sometimes strangers, get locked up together, and then use clues to free themselves within a...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #16: Explanation

The answer to this question is D if the sun is behind Santa. If you look at all the particular limbs and shadow casts, D is the most correct answer. One can also argue that this question would have a different answer had the sun been cast a different way. The original...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #15: Explanation

A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman, so we know from the beginning that they are 5 years apart. When she died at age 50, her husband was 55 years old. We can consider this "X" amount of years of crying. 10 years after he stopped crying, he died. The brain...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #14: Explanation

This week's brain teaser asks which of the following weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? Most people would answer "both weigh the same" because both are 1 pound. However, if you look into the type of measurement systems used for each item, it is...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #13: Explanation

For #13, please refer to the following diagram for the solution. The solution is a math problem where the addition of two numbers diagonal from each other will equal the number that is to the left of the second number. If you follow the red arrow pattern on every...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #12: Explanation

I don't have eyes but once I did see. Once I had thoughts but now I'm white and empty.   The answer is "skull". A human skull at one point would have eyes but no longer. When it did have eyes, it can be safe to assume that it could see. When it had a brain, it...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #11: Explanation

What belongs to you, but people would use it way more than you? The answer is "name" or "your name". People around you would call you by your name much more than you... unless you refer yourself in the third person like The Rock.

Brain Teaser Tuesday #10: Explanation

The answer is "plate". Please see the following explanation: An object of holding consumables A plate holds foods, which are consumable items Or device to heal your breakables Metal plates can be placed in the body to help heal/repair your breakable bones Without the...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #9: Explanation

"A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: Room full of raging fires Room full of assassins with loaded guns Room full of lions that haven't eaten for 3 years Which room is the safest for him?" The answer to this question is room #3....

Brain Teaser Tuesday #8: Explanation

I start with a T I end with a T I have T inside   Last week's puzzle works better when spoken. The word starts and ends with the letter "T", but it has "T" inside, which can also double as "tea". The word that defines an object with "tea" inside that starts with...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #7: Explanation

Pick a card, says the magician When picking a card, you are "drawing" a card from the deck Load your gun, says the sheriff When loading a gun, you are "drawing" your gun out first Illustrate the comic, says the writer When illustrating a comic, you are "drawing" a...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #6: Explanation

Last week's Brain Teaser Tuesday was an English language-based question. "What English word is present tense, then when rearranged becomes its own past tense?" The answer is "Eat" because the letters can be rearranged to form "Ate", which is its own past tense. If you...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #5: Explanation

This last week's brain teaser was a doozy. Note that I posted it last week on a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday. That should be a clue in itself! The answer, if you haven't already figured it out, is "Wednesday". Here is the explanation:   The start of the day of...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #4: Explanation

Last week's Brain Teaser Tuesday was a visually straightforward puzzle. The image of the crosshairs implies that you are shooting. Since you are aiming and shooting the word "TROUBLE", the answer is "Troubleshoot."

Brain Teaser Tuesday #3: Explanation

Last week's brain teaser was as follows: Each letter is shaped a certain way that creates non-obtuse angles. The number corresponds to how many non-obtuse angles exist in the letter. If you look at the diagram here, each time an angle can be draw into the letter, it...

Website launched!

Welcome to the launch of our website! Thank you for visiting. In the coming weeks, we'll roll out announcements on our room theme, status, and mailing list subscription forms. In the meantime, we'll use this blog space for explanations to our weekly Brain Teaser...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #2: Explanation

Negative exam, A struggle for victory, Against a trial, May contain inquiry. What am I? Answer: Contest   For this week's brain teaser, we continued again with a "What am I?" formatted riddle. However, this one may be more difficult because it is not one you can...

Brain Teaser Tuesday #1: Explanation

I have a hundred legs but cannot stand. I have a long neck but no head. I cannot see; I'm neat and tidy as can be. Answer: Broom   The answer to this "What am I?" type riddle is "broom". If you were google-ing the answer, you would have seen this is one of the...