About The Office Christmas Party
The Office Christmas Party is an escape room for adults, made for the Christmas party, the company do and team building. It’s 6:05 pm and the party is about to start down in the canteen. But you stayed up in the office too long wrapping presents, and at 6 pm the building went into night lockdown. The door to the stairs is locked, and Kurt from IT has put up a note: now you can show what you learned on his IT security course.
You explore the open-plan office, the kitchen, the boss’s office and the server room. Along the way you compare the cake rota with the mugs on the shelf, spot the error in Kurt’s expense claim by checking it against the receipts, read the server lights with his cheat sheet, free the printer from a paper jam and look for Christmas stars in the windows across the street. Finally you use the gossip about the Secret Santas to work out the order of the gift exchange.
The puzzles are harder than in our escape rooms for children, and most can only be solved when you put the clues together. If you play on the TV, notes, lists and receipts are handed out to your phones, so you have to talk to each other. The hint button gives three levels of hints, and the codes are new every time.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the office on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read Kurt’s note on the door to the stairs. It tells you what you need to get out.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look, and switch rooms with the buttons at the top. Locked rooms open along the way.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Tap an item twice to look at it more closely.
- Find Kurt’s access card and the four gift tags, and enter today’s code at the door. Tap Hint if you get stuck.