Katrina Zborowsky, 21, of Winnipeg, left, and Larry Gates of Anaheim leave no stone unturned to find clues while playing the Sherlock Room at Exodus Escape Rooms in Anaheim.MATT MASIN, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Larry Gates was stumped. After half an hour of scouring his surroundings and finding a handful of clues, the engineer from Anaheim Hills wasn’t making any progress toward finding a key and escaping from the room he had been locked into. A clock on a television above him counted steadily down toward zero. Gates spread his findings out on a desk in front of him: riddles scrawled on paper scraps, a cipher identified from an obscure book, batteries, a magnifying glass and a weathered globe, to name a few. Twenty-eight minutes and 30 seconds remaining, the clock read. “Who is the Sherlock weirdo who played Dungeons and Dragons?” Gates, 51, said in frustration. “There’s too many different clues.” Gates,…