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Our Newest Room!

Happy New Year from all of us at Exodus! It’s 2019, and we cannot wait for everything the year has in store for us… not to mention everything we have in store for you. What does that mean? Well reader, here’s the big news… we have a new room! That’s right, we snuck it in under the wire, subbed it in just at the end of 2018. Now the bad boy is out from under its watery veil, and we want you to be our new recruit. As a few of you will have guessed from the awkward nautical references above… it’s a submarine room!  We call it SUBmerged, and it's currently docked at our Anaheim location. In the game, the players take on the role of the crew of a research submarine (yes there is a Captain’s coat, yes someone gets to wear it. Please don’t fight over it
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What Makes Us Thankful

What makes us thankful? In the world of Room Escape often it’s the little things. A group playing one of our rooms and telling us how much they enjoyed it… a fun day in the control booth… just generally feeling fulfilled by the strange and wonderful work we get to do. Other days it’s the big things. With the wildfires in California leading up to Thanksgiving, we’re thankful our employees are safe, thankful our places of business survived, and thankful for the tireless work of the brave people in the emergency services that protected us and our families in these scariest of times.  What’s interesting is that, in turn, these larger concerns make us thankful that we continue to experience the other little things that got us through the day previously. One of the survivors from Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ said in a TED talk that, following the
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How Escape Games Help With Team Building

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Photo credit: wavebreakmedia / shutterstock.com Escape rooms are among top games which have been used by many corporations to foster team development. Employees will easily develop team work skills after they have been subjected to conditions such as escape rooms. The rooms will require the employees to develop corporation where each individual will be required to contribute towards the success of the team in escaping from the room. It is among the best places where you can go with your colleges so that you will interact and know each other more. Many companies which have taken their employees to escape rooms have achieved great. This is due to the interaction which the teams develop. Escape games develop respect for contribution Each player will be required to bring skills which will be applied to solve the problem. This makes each member of the company which will be involved in the game

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Improve Your Memory

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Photo credit: Anson0618 / shutterstock.com The human mind houses different types of memory pieces, in different areas of the brain. In a matter of moments, the brain needs to retrieve seemingly trivial details like dates and phone numbers out of its storage areas for immediate use. This operation doesn’t always go as smoothly as planned. It might be looking for our car keys or our sunglasses that causes our brain to feel sabotaged. It might be other matters like forgetting a birthday or wedding anniversary at the wrong moment. This isn’t something that we are forced to live with, as there are ways to improve your memory and boost the capabilities of your memory. Whether you are a fresh young student in college, cramming for those final exams, or another person fretting over a missed dentist appointment that you totally blew off, there are things that each of us can

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Helpful Tips On How To Keep Calm Under Pressure

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Photo credit: Diego Cervo / shutterstock.com There are very many experiences that we encounter on a daily basis. Some of these experiences can make us happy while others can make us sad. Some situations can make you feel frustrated and stressed. Some people dread going for interviews and so on. Others, usually become restless whenever they are giving a musical performance. In addition, others usually fear sitting for examinations and so on. All these situations can make you to panic and have pressure. In this case, you need to stay calm so that you can overcome the situation successfully. The following are some of the tips on how you can keep calm under pressure: Learn how to defeat your signals. When you are in danger or facing a challenging situation, your mind is likely to go into the fight or flight mode. You will realize that stress hormones usually flood

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Top 5 Escape Room Tips

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Photo credit: Natalya Rozhkova / shutterstock.com Escape rooms usually involve you being locked up in a room for 1 hour where you are forced to solve the puzzles and mysteries to get out. Exodus escape room game is a lot of fun and a much better way to spend your 1 hour. If you wish to become a guru in flight room, this article provides escape room tips that will surely help you escape before time runs out. Read on for more!   Work as a team This is a usual advice, and we have been hearing of it ever since street soccer. But it is good advice. Escape games usually strive to pull a fast one on you by scattering puzzle parts throughout the room. Therefore, working together is not sticking to a single clue. If a team member finds a clue, and then everyone turns to him/her, that

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Ways to Think Outside the Box

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Photo credit: Sergey Nivens / shutterstock.com Whether you’re an avid gamer and love puzzles or not, there’s always room for self-improvement and expanding the mind. Sometimes we need to ditch our standard way of thinking to solve a riddle or to just finish some project at work or to just go about our everyday lives. Here are some unique tips on how to get better with thinking outside the box: – Dig into another field This may seem crazy, but getting to understand other fields greatly helps you develop your thinking. There are very high chances that by checking into other fields you will find problems and solutions that may be helpful in your situation.   – Interact with other religions Religion is the most organized human form of living. There is a religion everywhere in the world. Understanding these religions will greatly expand your scope of thinking.   –

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How to Perform Under Pressure

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Photo credit: sergign / shutterstock.com Nobody performs better when under pressure. In fact, research shows that pressure only makes you worse in what you do. Fortunately, this isn’t the final sealed deal. There are things you can do to diminish this. If you are looking for a few pointers on how to perform better under pressure, check out these tips. What is escape game? This is a real life adventure game where you are located in a room. The game’s goal is simple: you need to work with your teammates to crack codes and puzzles, and solve several ciphers and find clues in a certain amount of time to escape from the room. Some of the nuggets you can adopt to perform under pressure include: 1. Focus on the task at hand, but not the outcome. This is the easiest tactic of all. Instead of worrying too much about the outcome,

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Awesome Things That Will Happen After You Play an Escape Game

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Do you know the awesome things that will happen after you play an escape game? You might have been asking yourself this question many times before playing the game. When you have information, you will understand the benefits that you would enjoy when you play it. Here are the five awesome things that will happen after you play an escape game: Fat burning Playing escape games can make you lose some fats on the body. When playing it, you will increase the metabolism of the body and give you adrenaline rushes thus enabling to burn excess fats that may lead to weight gain. By burning fat, you will prevent muscle loss easily without having to fast. You will have more energy Imagine you feeling like getting better after drinking a hot cup of coffee then you multiply it by twenty-five. You will increase your energy levels remarkably especially when looking

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Tips for Better Teamwork

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Photo credit: Gajus / shutterstock.com Teamwork skills, as well as team building, will be vital for your efficiency when playing the Exodus Escape Room. Notably, in the game, you will be given 60 minutes to solve ciphers, crack codes, and most importantly work together with other players to escape. The game is based on a real-life adventure and has been composed for a range of small to large groups Therefore, working in teams when you are playing Exodus Escape Room is inevitable. For this reason, you and your team should work at your potential so as to generate better solutions and be more productive. Also, you will most likely be successful in the game than if each member worked independently. Here are the tips for better teamwork: Share the Work  For your team to be the best, it will be critical to ensure that each member performs a notable part

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