Wear sneakers and comfortable clothes long pants are advised for the Roosevelt room. There’s a brand new Thomas Edison Escape Room, as well as a Roosevelt Escape Room that opened last year with hidden passages, mysterious puzzles, wartime codes and behind-the-scenes technical wizardry that propels the game to spectacular levels.ĭetails: The Houdini and Roosevelt rooms can be played with six to 10 friends, ages 16 and up the Edison room holds up to eight. (Palace Games)ĭon’t miss: It’s not just Houdini. Anything could be a clue in Teddy Roosevelt’s parlor, as teams untangle puzzles and try to escape.
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Now you, too, can test your wits in the Great Houdini Escape Room - a series of elaborately decorated rooms, filled with clever challenges, secret panels and fiendishly difficult puzzles, tucked deep inside the iconic building. That was all the inspiration Palace Games needed. Legend has it that Houdini built the world’s first contraption-filled “escape room” there as part of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition hoopla. Who knew you could channel your inner escape artist - and hang with Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, John Philip Sousa and the rest of the gang - at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts?
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