Local News: New escape room opens in McCook (11/17/22) - McCook Daily Gazette

McCOOK, Neb. If youre into figuring retired puzzles, looking for clues oregon exploring virtual reality, Pandoras Puzzle volition support you much than busy.

Located upstairs astatine 219 Norris Avenue, Pandoras Puzzle offers 2 themed flight rooms, Public School of Magic and Trapped successful a Nightmare. If thats not capable for entertainment, theres besides 2 immersive virtual world stations, wherever participants deterioration peculiar shoes with sensors, a caput acceptable and manus controllers arsenic they locomotion done and prosecute with a simulated environment.

The effect has been large since opening a fewer weeks ago, said Josiah Hegwood, who with his wife, Tori, are down the endeavor. We wanted a mode to put successful the assemblage and bring immoderate amusement options for radical here, Josiah said.

Both are graduates of McCook High School, Josiah successful 2017 and Tori, 2016. Relying connected feedback hes gotten from the community, Josiah said the apical 3 things helium heard radical wanted included antithetic types of restaurants, a ample venue to big events and amusement choices.

He and Tori chose the amusement enactment and for the past six months, theyve been revamping the upstairs flat they rent astatine 219 Norris arsenic flight rooms. The gathering was built successful 1919, truthful re-configuring the two-bedroom flat was challenging astatine times, Hegwood said, specified arsenic removing the formed robust radiators.

Re-furbishing what is already present was preferable to gathering new, helium said, and the downtown determination was perfect. With an ax-throwing barroom soon to beryllium opened downstairs and 3 eateries connected Norris Avenue, Hegwood said helium hopes this volition revitalize downtown, to get and support radical connected the bricks. You tin spell retired to devour and past travel up present and bash an flight room, helium said.

Like different flight rooms, participants astatine Pandoras Puzzle are asked to observe details, research hidden spaces and decipher clues to flight the room. Public School of Magic is based loosely connected Harry Potter, wherever participants stitchery the relics and reverse the spell of a magic schoolhouse and Trapped successful Nightmare has a much spooky theme.

Both rooms instrumentality astir an hr to get done and themes volition alteration each 3 months. Players volition person walkie talkies truthful successful lawsuit they get stuck successful figuring thing out, a fewer hints volition beryllium given.

Hegwood said based connected feedback hes gotten truthful far, a Leader Board is successful the works, wherever teams with the fastest times volition beryllium listed and notebooks for participants were precocious added, truthful clues tin beryllium written down.

Were alway evolving and listening to what radical archer us, Hegwood said. One reviewer said connected the website that aft being here, they talked astir it for hours and hours. And thats what we want, creating memories for families and friends to remember.

Pandoras Puzzle is unfastened Thursday done Sunday, from 4:30 p.m. to the past assignment taken astatine 9:30 p.m. On Saturday, hours are 1:30 to 9:30 p.m. Appointments indispensable beryllium made connected its website, www.pandoraspuzzle.com, with same-day booking available.

Costs are $25 per idiosyncratic for an hour, with a minimum of 2 radical and a maximum of six. The flight rooms are unfastened to those property 8 and up, anyone nether 16 indispensable beryllium accompanied by genitor oregon guardian implicit 21. Group discounts are disposable connected the website for businesses and parties.

Virtual world stations are $8 for a 15 infinitesimal session. Players indispensable beryllium 12 years aged oregon older and determination is simply a 54-inch tallness requirement. In the adjacent future, determination volition beryllium rank programme truthful it volition beryllium much cost-effective for repetition customers.