'Smart' room trend coming to Lincoln - Lincoln Journal Star

Are you smart enough to escape from a "smart" room. Starting next month, you'll have not one, not two, but three chances to do so in Lincoln. Three groups have plans to open smart rooms, also called escape rooms. Customers pay to be locked in a room, either with family and friends or with total strangers, and they must work together using clues in the room to solve a puzzle that will unlock the door, usually in less than an hour. He was visiting his sister, and the two of them, along with his sister's husband, decided to check out a smart room that had opened there. Wells said he immediately had the thought it would play well in Lincoln. Forward a few months and Wells and his wife, Dara, are planning to open Smart Rooms in a former shoe store next to the Rococo Theatre at 134 N. 13th St. Smart Rooms will have one room called the Relativity Room, which will have a theme of the... Another will be Escape Lincoln, which plans to open its own smart room. Source: journalstar.com