PanIQ Escape Room

For one of Jack’s Christmas presents, we went to an escape room.

The escape room’s theme was Pirates of Tortuga. We started out in a jail cell with skeletons and 60 minutes to try and escape (there was also a fake parrot who spouted gibberish whenever it could). The key to the cell was in the mouth of a dog that went to the door of the cell when we placed some of the skeletons bones on a little tray. When we unlocked door open we found some knots on ropes that were attached to the ceiling. Back in the jail cell, we had found a pendant and we used it to open a hidden panel under a candle that told us what ropes with what knots to pull. You would think the next step would be easy but some of the knots were messed up so we used a hint that told us what knots were what so we could pull them in order. When we pulled the ropes it opened a door that was definitely not hidden but definitely not open before. The door was in two parts and only one of them opened (the top part). I heroically unlocked the deadbolt that was keeping the other part of the door closed. Who knows what would have happened if I didn’t see it.

In the next room there were a lot more puzzles such as a ball maze, a table with a map, and some sort of matching symbols puzzle. There was also a fireplace and a bar with some containers filled with different colors. The containers also had symbols on them like a gun, a starfish, cannonballs, etc. We found a place on the floor that had an indentation on it and it looked like it could spin if a certain object was placed in it. Luckily we had obtained the object, an anchor which we originally thought had something to do with the ropes because we found it in the room with them. When we fitted the anchor into the indent and twisted it the result was one of the cabinets opening.

Eventually we found the last clue and opened the fireplace, we grabbed the torch with only ten minutes remaining and lit the fuse on the cannon which blasted open the door! We finished the escape room in fifty minutes.