The Director of The Alternative "Prison Break" Day Earns 1,000 Yuan

In your spare time, if you also indulge in drinking, karaoke, and playing "Warcraft", it is too OUT. Nowadays, a kind of challenge observation ability, intelligence, and courage of the "real life escape room" is all the rage in Beijing. Who would have thought that this idea came from a girl born after 80 years, by selling "stimulation", she earned more than 2 million yuan in 3 years!

Design a real version of the "Chamber of Secrets"

Li Xue, a cheerful 25-year-old from Zhengzhou, is the daughter of two police officers. Influenced by it, she loves detective mystery novels since she was a child, and has become a fan of Holmes. She even wants to be a famous detective when she grows up. Unfortunately, I failed the police academy and ended up majoring in economics instead.

After graduating from college in 2008, Li became a data collector for a business consulting company in Beijing, where she struggled to live in a cramped, depressing cubicle buried in a dull pile of numbers. Her greatest happiness, is after work desperately playing online games, because often stays up late, the total black eye like a giant panda. A few become the good friend of white-collar in CBD, also be not much stronger than Li Xue, to release job field pressure, have time for everybody to meet spell wine, K song, the money that the result earned hard was spent in buy drunk go up and still destroy the body.

At a party, they talked about a computer game called "Escape Room." It is created by an American engineer. Due to the time limit and the confusion of various clues, it always makes people nervous to suffocate when playing. At the end of the game, it is like a sauna, which makes people smooth all over. It is precise because of this challenge that "escape rooms" have become popular around the world. In the past, Li Xue also liked the game, but as a "super master", she played for a while because the design of the game is not satisfactory and felt boring. Unexpectedly, some hardcore players also feel the same way, all want to find a case to try their skills. Finally, Li Xue proposed that the "escape room" move to the real environment. She came up with the idea when she saw the American blockbuster Prison Break, in which many complex and step-by-step shocking plot designs made Li Xue admire the director's amazing imagination.

Soon, Li designed and directed a challenge game called "Escape from Bear Village." A Sunday, my bestie's birthday. To cheer for her, besides the good friend in the circle, Li Xue still specially invites a batch of the net swim ace to attend. She designed her best friend's home into several "secret rooms", each room is a "bear village". Scattered around the four corners of the Chamber were "clues" -- a single number, or a set of words with no common character. Each challenge group had six people. Before the game, Li gave each group a CD box with a combination lock and a paper bag with an answer sheet inside. The challengers have to find the password to unlock the lock, work together to solve the problem from the answer sheet, and finally find the killer hidden in the "bear village". The time is only "4 nights in the village", that is, one hour.

Ms. Li began to play the video from the first night. As soon as the game starts, the beauties jump into action, initially acting like chickens with their heads cut off, not knowing where to start. However, as the first problem was solved, the logic quickly became clear. In a funny twist, one woman's palms were sweating while she was solving the "maze" problem. She said she was shaking with nervousness. Her boyfriend quickly worked out a mathematical logic problem and concluded. But it got stuck on "Fill in the blocks for clues." The BEAUTY TURNED THE blocks OVER and matched them one BY one. The conclusion was reached. As the "four nights" passed, the couple and their team identified three man-eating bears and, based on a set of characters, solved the password to a CD case. But the team still has one last step, and can not follow the CD case clues out of the "bear village" in time. At the scene, one team has managed to escape. "What a pity. If we had five more minutes, we should have made it out!" The losing group continued to say.

Li Xue did not think of, how one designs this very simple real-person version of "secret room escapes", and lets everyone play unexpectedly infatuated. The successful "jailbreak" people find it very exciting, the failure is not enough. 'This is so interesting,' someone told Li. 'If you open a studio to direct and sell' excitement and pleasure, 'you might even make a fortune.'

Tense stimulation, so that the white collar in the "escape" release pressure

Friends inadvertently in a word, but let Li Xue's eyes not suddenly bright. Nowadays, WORKPLACE COMPETITION IS INCREASINGLY INTENSE, MANY PEOPLE TO SPELL HIGH SALARY, HIGH POSITION, busy ALL DAY like a high-speed spinning top, it is very difficult to let ONESELF stop TO relax well. Therefore, it is especially urgent and important to release the pressure by carrying out some healthy and interesting activities.

In July 2009, Li set up her own "Magic Studio" in Haidian. The chamber, which totals over 190 square meters, is divided into seven rooms with three different themes for players to choose from. After careful decoration and game props layout, Li Xue left such humorous language on the Internet: want to play a live version of the "escape room", or experience the alternative "prison break"? Here you can break the limits of the network illusion, become a detective Holmes, the hero of the prison break, or a deep fantasy treasure hunting explorer, personally feel to solve all kinds of mysteries, escape from the danger of tension, excitement!

Li Xue did not expect that on an opening day, more than 150 people came. To the player's surprise, the "long-awaited" chamber of Secrets is not immediately accessible. Li Xue first let the challengers watch the movie "Escape Room 1408". It turned out that the process was carefully designed by Li Xue to first create the atmosphere that a special environment should have. Then, the A group's hands were chained up one by one by the staff, put on black hoods, and then shut into the "secret room", and tied to A corner of the room.

The door quickly closed and the escape began. It sounds simple enough, but the mood rises as the challengers try to remove their blackheads before they can breathe in the chamber. Everyone's heart was caught by a saw in the corner and a strange radio on the table. You try to make a move, only to find it locked in chains. Your first task is to open the chain... The theme of the Group A activity was Saw, and the game's story was based on it. If you don't find a way out within the hour, the bomb hidden in the cabin will declare your challenge failed.

This chamber is full of secrets. Seemingly ordinary pictures on the walls, flower arrangements in vases, scattered stacks of books, and the piano could all hold the key to the puzzle. Clues are hidden scattered and obscure, no doubt to reveal the great trouble. Untying the body is the easiest part of jailbreaking. The next step is to find the "key" that opens the chamber door. This is a set of codes that, once found and entered correctly, will automatically open the electronic door. It may be written and hidden somewhere, such as in a book, a flashlight, or the belly of a fluffy dog toy, but it is by no means simple, to rely on the brain to reason. But where are the clues? Someone had searched every nook and cranny of the room, even a bunch of toys, but had not found any trace.

A few people are very annoyed, a girl has a buttock to sit on the floating window, and suddenly feels the buttock below has what hard things, the original is a remote control without a sign. A message was posted on the back of the remote control - "Think of the lines of the Emperor on the bridge in A Chinese Odyssey". Fortunately, some people are fans of Chow Xingchi. Naturally, they know that this sentence is "Cool wind has a letter, the autumn moon is boundless". Cool wind is air conditioning. So I opened the air conditioning with the remote control, and as expected, a piece of paper fell from the air conditioning, on which was written a number and a poem: "Lonely at high, dance clear shadow." Then, suddenly, someone shouted, "What's on top of the air conditioner?" Climb to the air conditioning machine, there is a disc, corresponding to the "lonely at the top".

They took the disc to the living room, ready to use the living room DVD to play, to find the second password, unfortunately, the incense has burned out, and time is up. Three animations are less than two minutes long. "Dance to Figure out the shadow" is a metaphor for the title of one of them, and the number of reflections in the animation is the rest of the password. "Every clue here is connected, and one break in between will destroy the previous work." The staff's introduction, but aroused everyone's challenge, hope to come again next time.

Make a million dollars in three years, open stores all over the country

Because of the complexity of the design, only 5 percent of the population can survive. One boss who escaped from the secret room, born in the 1980s, wrote online: "Only after you have solved all kinds of interlocking mysteries by analyzing and reasoning step by step, can you finally get out of the secret room, sweating and enjoying the relaxed happiness and sense of accomplishment after escaping. Too HIGH, the physical and mental pressure suddenly disappeared without a trace!"

Ms. Li charges 80 yuan per person per visit on weekdays and 100 yuan on holidays. For the successful "escape" give a small gift, and can participate in a different theme of the chamber of escape for free. The interesting thing is that the challengers who lose rarely surrender voluntarily, almost will carry on the second, or even the NTH "attack", until a series of riddles are thoroughly solved before they feel satisfied; The winner has a new appetite for challenge. In this way, through word of mouth, friends bring friends to play more and more, this year opened only 8 months, excluding all kinds of expenses Li Xue net 300,000 yuan.

Seeing business booming, Ms. Li opened a second branch in Sanlitun in the spring of 2011. But then came the problem. One day, Li Xue saw a player's post on the Internet: Play as early as possible. Because the theme of the secret room will continue to be released to crack the solution, once the "water" is like eating the steamed bun chewed by others, a little taste is not! Although this is a joke, it makes Li Xue keenly aware that the contents of the escape room must be replaced immediately. Only by constantly keeping it "fresh" and becoming more and more difficult can it attract more people to come and challenge themselves. Later, she recruited five planners online to design and direct a variety of "prison break" games every day.

A British man named Tom Colette is very interesting. A friend told him that a real person "escape room" studio was newly opened in Sanlitun. Because he boasts high intelligence and a competitive spirit, he immediately led several Chinese colleagues to challenge, but finally, only one step failed to complete. Later, Tom seemed to give himself to the bar, almost every week to play a tense and exciting "prison break". In his words, not only is he smiling more, but he is also more motivated to work! In April and September 2012, Li opened two new franchise stores in Hangzhou and Shenzhen. More than three years after starting her business, she has gained a fortune of 2 million yuan. Some people think this fashionable woman is a bit careless, but Li Xue laughs it off: My youth is my own choice!