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LISTEN: Go Behind The Scenes At Boise’s Escape Room Game

Boise State Public Radio News

Published April 1, 2016 at 11:58 AM MDT

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Team KBSX poses for a picture after escaping from "Mr. Langton's House." Left to right Richard Strack, Lacey Daley, Erik Jones, Paul Cox and Frankie Barnhill holds the sign.

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From the control room, Hayden Woras watches people try to escape.

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Anik and Blake Furlow started Boise Escape a year ago. Their son Chase was born a month later.

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Team KBSX working together to solve a puzzle.

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This board hangs outside the game rooms at Boise Escape.

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People do a lot of unusual things in their leisure time. That includes - and this is not an April Fool’s joke – paying to be locked in rooms so they can struggle for an hour to get out. In fact, escape room games are an international sensation and Boise is no exception.

Five members of the KBSX team went to find out what Boise Escape is all about. Now you can hear what it’s like behind the scenes of an escape room business. And you can listen to the struggles and eventual triumph as a reporter, two engineers, a web editor and a programmer pit their wits against puzzles, riddles and locks.

Find Adam Cotterell on Twitter @cotterelladam

LISTEN: Go Behind The Scenes At Boise’s Escape Room Game

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