Chapter 27: Game Completion

In fact, this time the escape room was very simple—nothing more than waiting. Waiting for the skeleton to awaken, waiting until he woke up and left, and then we would leave as well. That was all it took to clear the escape room. I have to admit, the design of this game is truly insidious. It exploits the fact that all of us think more intricately than ordinary people, so it sets up various traps for our minds. Repeated misdirections convinced us that opening the escape room door required some sort of mechanism or device, when in reality, it didn’t require any of that; all we had to do was wait…