Whether for Christmas, Easter, a birthday or any other celebration – the perfect Escape Room gift for puzzle lovers is hard to find because there is so much choice! Here we describe the categories that come into question and the most popular gifts from these categories so that you can choose the right gift for every Escape Room enthusiast.
8 Escape Room gift ideas from OPOLUM
#1: Escape room board games
Board games promote communication and, in the case of escape room games, especially the ability to combine and concentrate. Ideally, escape room board games are exciting, surprising, original and often educational – making them a perfect escape room gift.
We particularly liked the board game “Exit! The sunken treasure” particularly well. But “Escape Adventures – of heroes and legends of the gods!” and “Crimetime mystery game” also guarantee a successful evening with family and friends and are always a welcome escape room gift for brainteasers.
#2: Escape Room Puzzle
An escape room puzzle combines two game ideas. To begin with, you have to show patience and put a puzzle together. Only once this task has been completed will clues become visible on the resulting picture, allowing you to solve a tricky story.
These puzzles require time, patience and, of course, good combination skills – perfect for escape game enthusiasts!
As an escape room gift, the game “Exit Puzzle – Hexenküche” is highly recommended and inexpensive. A little more expensive and trickier, but also worth every penny, is “The Lonely Lighthouse“.
For professional players aged 16 and over, we recommend the premium version “Murder Mystery – Endstation Underground“, which takes three to four hours to solve.
#3: Escape Room Book
Do you want to give a gift to someone who likes to combine things and is a likeable mix of bookworm and bookworm?
No problem – a number of exciting escape room books have now been written, even for enthusiastic thriller readers, where you can join in the puzzles and solve the case yourself shortly before the end of the story by drawing logical conclusions!
Marc Meller’s psychological thriller “Raum der Angst” was such a hit that his second book, “Stadt des Zorns“, has already been published and also won an award.
“Labyrinth of Time” is a well-written paperback that makes puzzling along through an online connection particularly exciting. This combination is so successful that the idea has now become a series with 6 volumes!
#4: Escape room games on the PC
If it’s an escape room gift for a teenager, for example, then you can’t go wrong with a PC escape game.
And we at OPOLUM have also used the time of the pandemic to develop an online game ourselves, which of course we like best of all ;-)) It’s called “The Missing Scientist“. But we also found “The Experiment” and “Escape F1rst” very entertaining!
#5: Escape Room Movie
A DVD or a voucher for a streaming download can also be the ideal escape room gift. Such films are perfect for making yourself comfortable alone or as a couple in front of the TV and puzzling along with the plot or getting a little scared.
The two films “Escape Room” and “Escape Room 2: No Way Out” are ideal here. And for friends and acquaintances who haven’t yet seen the Netflix hit “Squid Game“, this extremely intense, almost nine-hour series is perfect for getting excited about and then discussing later.
#6: Material from an escape room
An excellent escape room gift is, for example, a bottle safe or a small treasure chest, which at first glance seem to make it impossible to get hold of the voucher or banknote inside without getting up your nerve and smashing the bottle or treasure box.
In addition to many wonderful wooden brain teasers, there are countless others such as trick locks, Cryptex and puzzle games.
#7: Organize your own escape room
Your own home can also be used as the backdrop for an exciting escape game. Creative people come up with their own exciting stories and puzzles.
But if you don’t have the time, desire or inspiration to develop your own personal escape room do-it-yourself gift, you can find countless game variations online.
For example, instead of handing over the gift, you can organize a fun puzzle event at home for the gift recipient. An original gift for an unforgettable evening with friends!
#8: Escape Room voucher
The ultimate escape room gift is, of course, a visit to a professionally designed escape room, which can now be found in almost every major city in Central Europe. You can present the voucher for such a visit in one of the containers described above.
Or you can give an Escape Room Hamburg voucher as a puzzle card, where the recipient first has to solve a puzzle to get the voucher.
If you happen to live in Hamburg and the surrounding area or are planning a trip to the Hanseatic city, you can find the vouchers for OPOLUM.
