Fun if slightly problematic

We'd done Escape the Room as part of a bachelorette party earlier this year, and enough friends had been intrigued that we decided to repeat the experience. (If you haven't heard of it yet--they lock you in a room, which is full of locks and puzzles. If you manage to solve all the puzzles in an hour, the last puzzle lets you out. If you fail to solve all the puzzles...they let you out anyway, but when they take your picture, you hold "Loser" signs. There are various failsafes in place if you had to leave in an emergency.)

When the time ran out, we still had a ridiculous number of clues that we couldn't figure out what to do with. Crestfallen, we turned to the door. The host bounded in, announcing "You guys were really close!" I couldn't figure out how--we had at least seven or eight clues we didn't know what to do with. "Where's your paperwork?" she asked. What paperwork? She looked confused...and the horrified. It turned out that there was supposed to be an acrostic in one of the drawers...which instead had contained an extra copy of a clue we'd already found. She ran down the hall and back, and shoved a copy of the acrostic at us. "We'll give you five more minutes!" Turns out, most of the unsolved clues plugged neatly into the acrostic. We finished in 2 minutes. Whoops.

So hey, our undefeated streak continues. (The last time, we made it out with 45 seconds to spare.)