Amazing Escape Room, Staten Island

You wake up in a strange room, with no idea how you got there. What's even more puzzling is that the room is filled with locked boxes, strange doors, and clues that need to be solved if you want to escape. Then there's the clock: a counter ticking down from 60 minutes to 0. Luckily, you're not alone—up to 11 others are there to help you solve the puzzles and find a way out of this sudden amnesia without resorting to reading everyone's diary entries from the day before.

That's the basic situation behind one of Amazing Escape Room's themed room-escape games. In other scenarios, players might search for the identity of a double agent, infiltrate a famous martial-arts dojo, or solve riddles in a room shaped like a human-sized 3D chessboard. While groups work together, hoping they don't run into one of the dead ends in every room, a Game Master watches via camera to slip players hints if need be.