Bethlehem now has two escape rooms and we’ve written witty headlines for both of our visits to them.



Human Vs Room, located on Fritch Drive in Bethlehem (just north of Route 22 on 191) is a bit different in approach and experience than the also brand new Captured LV Escape Room in downtown Bethlehem, but that’s exactly what any escape room visitor wants.

The fact that the Lehigh Valley is now home to two excellent escape rooms just means that we get to try them all.

Human Vs Room is a tiny bit intimidating at first. It fills up a former office building full of doors with who knows what type of puzzles, codes, and numerous other tricks behind them; all working against you and the sixty minutes on the clock.

For the unfamiliar, escape rooms give you 60 minutes (or some length of time) to figure out a chain of word, mathematics, tricks, and other types of puzzles in order to get a final code that allows you to get out of the room or stop the world from certain doom, like we did.

Of course, we can’t give much away since that would ruin the fun, however, we did finish the Doomsday Bob room with only 22 seconds to spare before “nuclear meltdown” occurred.

And, sure, it wasn’t a real nuclear meltdown, but it totally felt like maybe it could have been and that’s what motivated our group of nine people to work together through some pretty tricky items, and a bit of frustration, to emerge victorious.

At the time of writing, Human Vs Room has two rooms up and running with four more on the way. The owners also told us about “Race Rooms” which would pit two teams against each other to see who can emerge the quickest.

What makes Human Vs Room, and other escape rooms, so much fun is that they aren’t geared toward one type of puzzle decoder. We had a math whiz in our group who took the lead on some number problems while different group members took the lead with gathering information and yet others with looking more closely at objects.

Human Vs Room was fun for our hastily put together group, but would probably be incredible for a work outing, team building, or, hell, a bachelorette party before the bar begins.

Be sure to tell them we sent you!