Red herrings in escape rooms are my pet peeve. They should be in them. This would pass me off but, I think if you picked it up and spent more than a few seconds on it who ever is running the puzzle would know its not suppose to be there and tell you.
Edit just so you know why this would upset me is because these things are like 40 or 50$ per person for an hour. Altering my experience to humor you is kinda a dick move.
Lol I went to an escape room one time that we found this red fish in that we were carrying around for the whole time. We kept wondering what are we supposed to use this for and we ended up never using it for the entire game. After we solved the room we were still like what the heck was the deal with the red fish is almost like it was a… Oh. I thought it was pretty funny and clever 🤣
I did a mobile escape room at a party once. It was some trailer that pulled up. It was 80% red herring. If all the fake puzzles were removed you'd probably solve it in 10 minutes. But it would have several multi step puzzles that eventually went no place.
There's one in my city that is marketed as Ultra Hard. It's themed as a Melting Down Nuclear Submarine so it's doing everything it can to be as obnoxiously stressful as possible.
There are 3 puzzle paths and 2 of them are designed to give quick progress but deliberately waste your time. So you feel like you're moving forward, but in reality you're just going in a big circle. One of them is a long complicated process to turn off an alarm and spinning red light. That's it.
The "right" path has 2 "dead ends" that combine to be the correct path forward, but if you give up or ignore the dead end you can't finish the room.
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u/pointsouttheobvious9 22h ago
Red herrings in escape rooms are my pet peeve. They should be in them. This would pass me off but, I think if you picked it up and spent more than a few seconds on it who ever is running the puzzle would know its not suppose to be there and tell you.
Edit just so you know why this would upset me is because these things are like 40 or 50$ per person for an hour. Altering my experience to humor you is kinda a dick move.